[Elecraft] On CW

[EUGENE GABRY]

Great read and very well said, Wayne :) You brought back a memory of my sophomore year in high school back in the late 60's, still about 8 years away from getting my ham ticket. I was one of those "nerds" who was taking an electronics shop class. Our instructor was a ham operator. Aside from teaching us theory and circuit building projects, he taught us morse code. While other kids were learning Spanish and French, I and a handful of other nerds were learning this other"subversive" language that could be tapped out on our desk tops with a pencil during class. A few of us drove one English teacher crazy with our "code tapping"! Oh, eventually she got wise to what was going on. On test or quiz days, any one of us caught tapping our pencils on the desk, automatically failed!


Thanks for the story :)


73 Gene

N9TF

> On October 30, 2017 at 9:37 PM Wayne Burdick wrote:
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>     Going even further down the techno food chain, you can “send” CW by whistling, flashing a lamp, tapping on someone’s leg under a table in civics class, or pounding a wrench on the inverted hull of an upside-down U.S. war vessel, as happened at Pearl Harbor.
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>     73,
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>     Wayne
>     N6KR
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