[Elecraft] O.T. Morse is not dead, at least in the U.S. Navy

[Stewart]

On 11/20/2017 4:34 AM, Richard S. Leary wrote:
> Kevin,
> My two cents worth. I was a USAF Morse Intercept Operator for almost 8
> years. Started in Mar 1955. School was 7 months. Of that, CW training was 3+
> hours a day, 5 days a week, for 7 months. Graduating speed requirement was
> 20 wpm. I started knowing zilch, ended up school at 23 wpm. Characters
> taught then were A thru Z, 1 thru 0, plus "special characters". Total
> character count was in excess of 45 characters. Some special characters were
> colon (:), semi-colon (;), ampersand (&), dollar ($), exclamation point (!),
> quotes ("), plus other normal punctuation marks. I worked as a MIO for 6 1/2
> years in Europe. Germany, Turkey, and England. Consecutive tours. We copied
> CW as it was sent. If it ended up looking like Greek, or any other language,
> it was still CW, but transcribed onto paper, as whatever was sent. No
> computers back then, just a pair of Hammerlund SP-600's, R-390's or 51J's,
> and a Royal or Remington manual mil spec typewriter, and lots of 6 ply, fan
> fold paper with carbons. In Turkey, the building next to our ops area was
> Navy ops. Their CT's were reknown for being pretty excellent operators. Glad
> to see the Navy MIO's back.  Just my $0.02 worth.
>
> 73,  Rick, W7LKG
>
>
Rick,
Looks like you were at Karamursel, I was there 1962-63, Navy Ops.
73
Stew ke4yh  CTTC USN Ret.

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