[QCWA] drinking for code

[Norm Gertz]

Just another horror story out of Ft Monmouth.....all a memory now as the 
home of the Signal Corps is now at Fort Gordon, GA and doing a great job.

73  Norm  K1AA


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Henry Schickler" <seven238 at verizon.net>
To: <qcwa at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 10:34 AM
Subject: [QCWA] drinking for code


Hey Joe;

I may have been kidding a little about the drinking. I was in Camp Crowder 
first for basic. Then I went to Monmouth. How the army plays dirty tricks. 
When I got there a train load was supposed to have had radio training at 
Crowder. They sent us all to school in Monmouth. Wasn't bad for me as I came 
from New York City. Weekends were great, I went home to see my wife. Then 
came the turnabout. I was asked to take a sending test at 25 wpm. I told 
them you are nuts. I wasn't copying 25 at that time and didn't know the 
sound. Okay they said, forget it. Next thing a trainload was back in Crowder 
in what was call the unit training center. There was only one guy in the 
company that was a qualfied fixed station op. The wholw battalion went back 
to school. As far as ops are concerned, I was in the typesetting business 
with linotype operators on a linotype machine that had 90 keys. We had 
people then who could type and talk at the same time. There is something in 
some peoples brain that can do this, same as cw ops. I really hadn't met 
lino ops who were drinkers but some could really set type. We called them 
swifts.

Hank w2icw
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