[Fists] Towards a FISTS Operations Manual

Wed, 18 Feb 2004 11:01:38 -0600

Bob,

A good start is the FISTS published book, The Art & Skill of
Radio-Telegraphy. FISTS volunteers (I was one of them) spent several hundred
hours turning Bill Pierpont's FB manuscript into a book.

The 4th edition is sold at cost - $11.50 each, shipped to your door (CONUS).
Alternately, you can download the 3rd edition for free. However, reading the
book is so much more pleasurable than from your computer screen and better
than printing out 250 pages on your printer.

http://www.qsl.net/n9bor/n0hff.htm

Many Morse Web resources can be found on my Morse Links page at:

http://www.qsl.net/n9bor/morse.htm

73 de Mike, N9BOR
A-1, FISTS, JARL A-1, SMC
http://www.qsl.net/n9bor

di dah dit - The only Roger Beep you'll ever need.
Let your fingers do the talking - Morse code.
My designated driver is a 12BY7A.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On
> Behalf Of Robert Block
> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 10:27 AM
> To: Fists North America
> Subject: [Fists] Towards a FISTS Operations Manual
>
>
> In 1956, W6DTY wrote a classic article in QST, " Your Novice Accent And
> What To Do About It!".
>
> By now, many of the suggestions are inappropriate for current usage and
> conditions.  Nevertheless, beginners need an authoritative guide on what
> constitutes "good CW operating practice".  The ARRL Operating
> Manual could
> have been a good source but treatment of CW is largely superficial.
>
> What I'd like to see is an operating manual devoted exclusively to CW.
> Herewith, a proposed organization of topics: