[Elecraft] CW DAY

Tom H Childers n5ge at n5ge.com
Fri May 24 15:17:11 EDT 2013


Nothing wrong with discussing the mode that is still the most
efficient comm mode available to civilians.

73,
Tom
Amateur Radio Operator N5GE
ARRL Lifetime Member
QCWA Lifetime Member

On Fri, 24 May 2013 11:02:46 -0700, Lewis Phelps <lew at n6lew.us>
wrote:

>"What hath God wrought?" is a verbatim quote from the King James translation of the Bible (Numbers 23:23). 
>
>If you're into numerology the number 23 is supposed to be highly significant. See the  Wiki entry for "23 Enigma". In contemporary English the phrase would be "What has God made?" 
>
>Samuel Morse sent that text as the first traffic on the Baltimore-Washington telegraph line. The line was built for general communications purposes, not as part of a railroad operation. However, the historic Morse transmission was sent from the U.S. Capital in Washington DC to a Baltimore & Ohio Railroad facility  at Annapolis, MD. in 1844.
>
>Apologies to anyone who considers this OT. 
>
>
>Lew Phelps N6LEW
>Pasadena, CA DM04wd
>Elecraft K3-10 
>Yaesu FT-7800 
>Lew at N6LEW.US
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>
>
>On May 24, 2013, at 6:26 AM, Carey Magee <arsk2rny at gmail.com> wrote:
>>   Possibly a statement regarding the opening of the railroad line he was there at?
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