[HCARC] CW Skills Delayed
Kerry
kerryk5ks at hughes.net
Fri Aug 18 17:13:22 EDT 2017
Robert and everyone else,
As far as I know there is still a Joint Services school at Goodfellow
AFB in San Angelo and as far as I know they are still teaching Morse
code to operators. There may not be a large number of students but
there are still a few. There are a large number of joint schools now,
particularly for the smaller specialties. The services are moving
towards a single service. It won't happen soon - but it will happen.
On 8/18/2017 12:45 PM, R Russell wrote:
> After basic electricity/electronics school at Great Lakes Naval Training Center Feb. 1967, we were requested to change ratings from ET (electronics technician) to either RM (radioman) or RD (radarman). The Navy was short those ratings then. Several classmates opted for RD. We were all afraid of having to learn Morse Code at Bainbridge, MD. No RD's in submarines. RM would have been my choice. I regret not converting. In my first boat, I admired Radiomen and duties. Now I struggle with CW 50yrs later. Never too late. Perhaps.
>
> Our Navy no longer teaches CW. Bad idea IMHO. KF5AIE _ . _
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> 4. Re: Military Morse... from 2015 (Kerry)
> 5. Re: Military Morse... from 2015 (Derrell K. Spencer)
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> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 08:12:23 -0500
> From: Kerry Sandstrom <kerryk5ks at hughes.net>
> To: "sgriffin1 at windstream.net" <sgriffin1 at windstream.net>,
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> Subject: Re: [HCARC] Military Morse... from 2015
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> This happened in April of 2015. The military Morse training was
> consolidated at Goodfellow AFB in San Angelo. I believe it is still
> being taught there. The Navy taught it at Pensacola, the Army at Ft.
> Devens, Mass and then at Ft. Huachuca and the AF at Keesler AFB, Miss
> and then Goodfellow AFB. There were probably other locations at earlier
> times.
>
> I guess that perhaps some of the work is now done by automatic Morse
> readers now, just like on the ham bands although many of the Morse
> readers do a poor job with QRM, QRN, QSB and sloppy senders.
>
>
> On 8/17/2017 7:29 AM, sgriffin1 at windstream.net wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> To me that's not good news I know we got all the sophisticated electronic stuff today but if it all goes down what we have left?WD5ENHSteve
>> Happy Connecting. Sent from my Sprint Phone.
>>
>>
>>
>> ------ Original message------From: Don Murray via HCARC Date: Wed, Aug 16, 2017 10:45 PMTo: hcarc at mailman.qth.net;Subject:[HCARC] Military Morse... from 2015
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> From: Gale Heise <galeheise at windstream.net>
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> Subject: Re: [HCARC] Astron RS-20A Power Supply For Sale
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> The Astron RS-20A has been sold.
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> Gale
> KM4DR
> From: Gale Heise
> Sent: Monday, August 14, 2017 2:45 PM
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> Subject: Astron RS-20A Power Supply For Sale
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> The referenced power supply is for sale locally until Thursday night when it goes on eBay.? Will sell locally for $45.
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> Call 830-896-9593 or email me if interested.
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> Gale
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> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 14:32:57 -0500
> From: Brown Stokes <brown.stokes at gmail.com>
> To: Kerry Sandstrom <kerryk5ks at hughes.net>
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> Subject: Re: [HCARC] Military Morse... from 2015
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> I learned Morse at Imperial Beach Calif, and was in one of the last classes
> there, before it moved to Pensacola. I helped pack some of the gear after I
> graduated, while awaiting orders to Monterey.
>
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 8:12 AM, Kerry Sandstrom <kerryk5ks at hughes.net>
> wrote:
>
>> This happened in April of 2015. The military Morse training was
>> consolidated at Goodfellow AFB in San Angelo. I believe it is still being
>> taught there. The Navy taught it at Pensacola, the Army at Ft. Devens,
>> Mass and then at Ft. Huachuca and the AF at Keesler AFB, Miss and then
>> Goodfellow AFB. There were probably other locations at earlier times.
>>
>> I guess that perhaps some of the work is now done by automatic Morse
>> readers now, just like on the ham bands although many of the Morse readers
>> do a poor job with QRM, QRN, QSB and sloppy senders.
>>
>>
>> On 8/17/2017 7:29 AM, sgriffin1 at windstream.net wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> To me that's not good news I know we got all the sophisticated
>>> electronic stuff today but if it all goes down what we have left?WD5ENHSteve
>>> Happy Connecting. Sent from my Sprint Phone.
>>>
>>>
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>>> ------ Original message------From: Don Murray via HCARC Date: Wed, Aug
>>> 16, 2017 10:45 PMTo: hcarc at mailman.qth.net;Subject:[HCARC] Military
>>> Morse... from 2015
>>> Fort Huachuca bids farewell to Morse code training | Article | The United
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> From: Kerry <kerryk5ks at hughes.net>
> To: Brown Stokes <brown.stokes at gmail.com>
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> Brown, thanks for info on Imperial Beach. Most of the Navy guys I knew
> were EW types so never got familiar with the various Navy training
> bases. Several of my electronic techs went to a a joint school at Corry
> Station, but that's about my only contact with Navy schools.
>
>
> On 8/17/2017 2:32 PM, Brown Stokes wrote:
>> I learned Morse at Imperial Beach Calif, and was in one of the last
>> classes there, before it moved to Pensacola. I helped pack some of the
>> gear after I graduated, while awaiting orders to Monterey.
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 8:12 AM, Kerry Sandstrom <kerryk5ks at hughes.net
>> <mailto:kerryk5ks at hughes.net>> wrote:
>>
>> This happened in April of 2015. The military Morse training was
>> consolidated at Goodfellow AFB in San Angelo. I believe it is
>> still being taught there. The Navy taught it at Pensacola, the
>> Army at Ft. Devens, Mass and then at Ft. Huachuca and the AF at
>> Keesler AFB, Miss and then Goodfellow AFB. There were probably
>> other locations at earlier times.
>>
>> I guess that perhaps some of the work is now done by automatic
>> Morse readers now, just like on the ham bands although many of the
>> Morse readers do a poor job with QRM, QRN, QSB and sloppy senders.
>>
>>
>> On 8/17/2017 7:29 AM, sgriffin1 at windstream.net
>> <mailto:sgriffin1 at windstream.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> To me that's not good news I know we got all the
>> sophisticated electronic stuff today but if it all goes down
>> what we have left?WD5ENHSteve
>> Happy Connecting. Sent from my Sprint Phone.
>>
>>
>>
>> ------ Original message------From: Don Murray via HCARC Date:
>> Wed, Aug 16, 2017 10:45 PMTo: hcarc at mailman.qth.net
>> <mailto:hcarc at mailman.qth.net>;Subject:[HCARC] Military
>> Morse... from 2015
>> Fort Huachuca bids farewell to Morse code training | Article |
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> From: "Derrell K. Spencer" <orion60 at austin.rr.com>
> To: Kerry <kerryk5ks at hughes.net>, Brown Stokes
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> Good morning HCARC.
>
> I learned Morse Code at Fort Ord, CA in the Radio Operator (05B) course.
> I went on to the Radio Teletype Operator course to earn my primary MOS of 05C
> at Fort Gordon, GA. This was back in 1966, O5B20 then became my secondary MOS.
> Nineteen sixty seven and sixty nine found me in the 337th Radio Research
> Company supporting the 1st Infantry Division in the "Iron Triangle" Tactical
> Area of South Vietnam. Between those two tours I was stationed at Headquarters
> Army Security Agency, Arlington Hall, VA, filling a 72B20, Communications
> Center Specialist slot. After 3 yrs, 7 mos, I Was released from active duty on
> 3DEC69. I never got to operationally utilize my Morse skills of sending/receiving
> 15 five character code groups per minute, although I did Operate a lot of radio
> and communication gear.
>
> My Navy career began in 1977 and ran through 17 years when I retired with 20 yrs
> active service in 1994. During that time I served as an Aviation Electronics
> Technician. Thank you all for allowing me to share this personal info in this forum.
>
> https://www.facebook.com/derrell.spencer3
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