[Hallicrafters] Re: Hallicrafters Digest, Vol 45, Issue 3

[jeremy-ca]

Its all about the years we served. The thread was about CW, not machine 
copy.

I was there at the transition from CW code groups to the KW system. In fact 
I went to the first ever KW school in Portsmouth, VA in 1961 or 62.

Since the early KW's and the Model 15 RTTY were so unreliable the RM's had 
to rely on CW backups a lot of the time. I sat those circuits many times 
just to keep in practice as I was good for 35 wpm when I joined the Navy. 
That upset some of the RM's but I became good friends with the RMC. I was 
ET3/ET2 in those years and also qualified on the "speed key" at my first 
sitting. I still have the Vibroplex Presentation my parents gave me for my 
16th birthday in 1956.

Carl
KM1H


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Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 7:36 PM
Subject: [Hallicrafters] Re: Hallicrafters Digest, Vol 45, Issue 3


> I'm afraid your BS is trumped by my BS... All USN classified traffic was 
> NOT in 5-letter code groups.  Much of it was on-line encrypted (KW-7's 
> on...), and ONLY the traffic that was sent via CW or (rarely) voice was 
> OFFLINE encrypted into 5-letter code groups.  Even the unclassified 
> traffic around the "Nam Time" was typically UNCLAS EFTO ( Encrypted For 
> Transmission Only ).
>
> We're right - we just need to agree.
>
> TCD, former RMC USN
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