[PVRCNC] First CW message

[Roberts, Will]

I think the first CW message was "check out my new hot pics on MySpace".

:>)

73 es GL in WPX,

Will AA4NC / W4MR


Message: 10
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 19:51:10 -0400
From: "Jim Jordan, K4QPL" <k4qpl at nc.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [PVRC] May 24, 1844
To: <donovanf at starpower.net>, <pvrc at mailman.qth.net>,	"bob finger"
	<finger at goeaston.net>
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Well, I thought it sounded pretty clever at the time....but I've learned
one 
has to get up far too early in the morning to get ahead of this PVRC
gang!

.--  ....  .-  -   ....  .-  -  ....   --.  ---  -..    .--  .-.  ---  
..-  --.  ....  -   ..--..

(And don't anyone tell me it shouldn't be International Morse)


>Jim:  Sorry, it won't work.  Telegraph poles were/are made from trees.
>73 bob de w9ge

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <donovanf at starpower.net>
To: <pvrc at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 3:40 PM
Subject: Re: [PVRC] May 24, 1844


> Hi Jim,
>
> Actually...  Morse installed 40 miles of telegraph poles which
certainly 
> inconvenienced a few trees...
>
> And...   The electron would have to wait another 50 years before its 
> existence would be discovered.
>
> 73!
> Frank
> W3LPL
>
> ---- Original message ----
>>Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 14:50:53 -0400
>>From: "Jim Jordan, K4QPL" <k4qpl at nc.rr.com>
>>Subject: Re: [PVRC] May 24, 1844
>>To: <jeffrey.embry at gmail.com>, "PVRC Reflector" <pvrc at mailman.qth.net>
>>
>>Jeff,
>>
>>And he thereby was the first to implement your tag line:
>>
>>"No trees were harmed in the sending of this message, however a large
>>number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced."
>>
>>73,
>>
>>Jim, K4QPL
>>
>>----- Original Message ----- 
>>From: "Jeffrey Embry" <jeffrey.embry at gmail.com>
>>To: "PVRC Reflector" <pvrc at mailman.qth.net>
>>Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 2:36 PM
>>Subject: [PVRC] May 24, 1844
>>
>>
>>> One hundred and sixty-three years ago today, Samuel F.B. Morse sent
the
>>> world's first telegraphic message.
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Jeff Embry, K3OQ
>>> FM19je
>>> ARCI #11643, FPQRP #-696,
>>> QRP-L # 67, NAQCC #25, ARS #1733
>>> AMSAT LM-2263
>>>
>>> No trees were harmed in the sending of this message, however a large
>>> number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.