[Elecraft] OT Learning Morse anew

[Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft]

Hi Jim,

No need to apologize. All of the thread's posts are good info - We just try to 
keep the volume of responses to OT threads down to 5-10 to keep list email 
volume under control for our other readers.

73,
Eric
/elecraft.com/

On 6/13/2017 9:34 AM, Jim Sr Sturges wrote:
> 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.
>
> 73
> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 12:28 PM Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft 
> <eric at elecraft.com <mailto: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
>     List Moderator
>     /elecraft.com/ <http://elecraft.com/>
>
>     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
>     <mailto: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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