[QCWA] Tape downfall

[Norm Gertz]

Marines were trained in semaphore and when aboard ship they worked on the 
signal bridge.....also copied Fox down below.
It was dropped from the radio school training sometime in 1942.

73   Norm   K1AA


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harvey&Bessie" <w4tg at bellsouth.net>
To: "Discussion of QCWA" <qcwa at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 3:16 PM
Subject: Re: [QCWA] Tape downfall


>    I had just the opposite experience in the Navy. I could copy blinker 
> light about as fast as I could tone CW, beat the signalman first class 
> every time! Never could master semaphore, though.
> 73
> Harvey/W4TG
>
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