[MRCA] [MRCG] Veterans Day display

[Tim]

Hi Tom - Yes, I noticed the same things with the CPO  The girls pick it up
very quickly, very inquisitive.  Boys, not so much...
Once they get the hang of it I tell them to get their buddies to learn code
so they can send secret messages to them in school - and the teachers can't
figure it out.  The parents wince and then laugh.....

Then there are many adults who tell me they learned code in the Boy Scouts
- they can usually manage SOS...

When I brought the CPO into the Vets Hall a couple of years ago I heard
someone playing with it.  They were sending CQ CQ WAR WAR.   Who is that?
Turns out it was one of our docents, a 98 year old WWII vet who was an
infantry scout with Patton's Third Army.  Art - when did you learn morse
code??  Oh, around 1943 in the Army.  He still knows it (not a ham BTW)
Amazing.

Tim

On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 7:31 AM, tom horsfall <wa6ope at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Tim, Damn!    Very, very nice display, I am impressed by the size of
> the event and the turnout not mention the quality of the exhibits.
>
>
> Regarding the kids and a Code Practice oscillator, I did docent duty at
> the San Francisco Maritime Museum for eight years and the CPO was always
> very popular.  The surprising thing to me was most of the time the girls
> were more interested than the boys and some of them had a natural ability
> for Morse that surprised me over and over.   I used to ask the kids if they
> knew about Morse and about half of them did.   The girls thought it was
> cool because it was kind of a secret language.
>
>
> Tom
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: MRCG <mrcg-bounces at mailman.qth.net> on behalf of Tim <
> timsamm at gmail.com>
> Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2016 5:35 PM
> To: West Coast Military Radio Collectors Group; Thekan, Paul; MRCA
> Subject: [MRCG] Veterans Day display
>
> "Any pics of your display at the Veterans Center??
>
> Paul
> N6FEG"
> -----------------------------------------------
> Hi Paul - I put up some photos of our indoor radio display at the local
> Veterans Memorial Building last weekend.  A subset of what we did at MVPA
> in Pleasanton, primarily driven by space constraints.  We had well over
> 2000 visitors come through the displays.  Busy 3 day weekend!
> http://www.n6cc.com/veterans-day-displays
>
> 73, Tim
> N6CC
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