[MRCG] Veterans Day display

[Thomas Murphy]

  I got my license in 1983, I had always had an interest in radio from
childhood but was never in the right place as far as an Elmer, my father
never encouraged or discouraged my interest. One of my high school friends
had gotten his start in a career in the insurance business with my father's
help, he also had become a ham a few years before I had. In his case it was
his wife's father who was a ham that got him interested, he mentioned to my
farther that I now had a ham radio license while visiting one day.

 My father told him he had been trained as a radio operator in WWII, he flew
on B-24 bombers, my friend told me that he tested my father who still
retained a surprising proficiency in CW even after almost 30 years. A few
months later my father passed away, he was always very reticent about his
war time experiences and my suspicion is that my interest in radio brought
back memories he would rather have forgotten.

                                                                         Tom
Murphy, W6TOM


-----Original Message-----
From: MRCG [mailto:mrcg-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Tim
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2016 12:05 PM
To: West Coast Military Radio Collectors Group
Cc: MRCA
Subject: Re: [MRCG] Veterans Day display

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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