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

[Richard S. Leary]

Yep, that's where I was, Nov 57 to Nov 58. I see you were there when it was not "mudsite" anymore. Wonder if the Picadilly was still there?
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving.

73, Rick, W7LKG, MSgt USAF (Ret)

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Sent: Monday, November 20, 2017 08:57
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Subject: Re: [Elecraft] O.T. Morse is not dead, at least in the U.S. Navy



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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