[Elecraft] OT Learning Morse anew

[Jim Sr Sturges]

My apologies for opening what became an overwhelmingly nice, polite,
friendly, and educational thread for me and perhaps a few others. This is a
place where exposing ignorance is rewarded with gold-plated knowledge and
bonhomie. I'm not really sorry but good form dictates that response. My
replies here are SK.

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On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 12:28 PM Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft <
eric at elecraft.com> wrote:

> In the interest of releiving email overload for our readers, lets close
> this OT
> thread at this time.   Its well past the single day posting limit.
>
> 73,
> Eric
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> On 6/12/2017 9:14 PM, Doug Smith wrote:
> > I was one of the last Radio Officers to sail an all CW ship.  It was the
> SS Tampa Bay, call sign KNJA.  We worked our way up and down the South
> American coasts from ports in the US gulf coast.
> >
> > I mainly worked WLO on 16 and 22 MHz. We typically hummed along around
> 30 WPM due to the requirement for perfect copy in both directions. I once
> made a mistake -- spelled a guys name wrong by one letter (Johnson vs.
> Johnsen or some such thing) and I really caught hell from The Old Man. That
> didn't happen again!
> >
> > One day I was just doing a poor job of sending and had to keep
> correcting myself. After all the traffic was sent I apologized to the shore
> station op. He said, "Are you kidding? You have the best fist I've copied
> all day." Nice guy, made me feel much better about my sloppy sending. I
> have little doubt he was a Ham.
> >
> > You can see a pic of a typical shipboard radio room of that era at:
> >    http://www.w7kf.com/Articles/Rigs/ITTMackay3020A.html
> >
> > Fond memories...
> >
> > 73,
> > Doug, W7KF
> >
> >
> >> On Jun 12, 2017, at 5:33 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire <ron at cobi.biz> wrote:
> >>
> >> I've seen commercial ship/shore traffic running very slow due to a
> shipboard
> >> operator who was not proficient at CW. The shore station had to run
> equally
> >> slow, no matter how painful.
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Jim Sturges, N3SZ
Amateur Radio operators do it with frequency.