[Lowfer] Alternate Morse code

[Don Moth]

Mitch
That sounds about the same time I kept busy running phone patches for the
guys at the "DEW LINE" (Distant Early Warning) site and the guys from
Antartica. I rewarding experience.
Don

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> From: Mitch Powell <mitch.powell@sympatico.ca>
> To: lowfer@mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [Lowfer] Alternate Morse code
> Date: Saturday, August 02, 2003 10:24 PM
> 
> 
> 
> > Ed
> > I have to agree with you as I am also from the old school when we had
to
> > send and receive 20 WPM and draw a diagram of a transmitter and
receiver
> > and explain the operation. NO multiple choice questions either.
> > That CW is 'MUSIC TO OUR EARS" even at age 75, hi hi.
> > 
> > Don W2MPK  (licensed ALMOST 50 years)
> 
> Don: This just between you and me. I was licensed in 1948, and the radio
> inspector had us draw all the diagrams and then  questioned us on the
> circuits, xmtr, rcvr, power supply, "absorption frequency meter - hi ",
etc.
> Sounds like your experience.
> However - my first QSO was 1947 - with W1EOB in Maine - It was so much
fun
> that I applied for a license.
> >From 1953-1956 I operated high speed cw circuits from High Arctic
Weather
> stations ( 74N 103W), including USAF Thule, Greenland. 45-50 wpm with a
> vibroplex - before the first electronic keyer !
> 
> 73
> Mitch VE3OT
> 
> 
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