[MRCG] Veterans Day display

[Jim Falls]

This was the case in my Sophomore year in High School. A group of girls had their own Secret Society Net. They never got busted beyond being told to "knock it off", because nobody understood Morse. 

Cheers!
Jim K6FWT

> On Nov 21, 2016, at 12:05, Tim <timsamm at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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