[R-390] capacitor analysis

[Jerry Kincade]

Those might be code practice tapes. I used a Navy paper tape code practice
machine back in 1965 to get my code speed up for the General exam out in
Norfolk, VA. It was about the size of a URM-25D, and it used paper tapes
much like a 16mm projector works. Worked great, and I took and passed the
General and the FCC First Class Radiotelephone the same afternoon under the
stern glare of a totally humorless FCC examiner in Norfolk, and was later
christened WA4YVX. I should have taken the Radar Endorsement exam also, but
had not studied at all for it and was too chicken to try both it and the
First Class Radiotelegraph. He wouldn't tell me my score or let me see my
answer sheet,  but just growled "Your licenses will come in the mail.
Goodbye". Of course, I was so happy at that point that he could have kicked
me a couple of times and I'd have still kept grinning.

Don't throw them away, somebody out there probably has the machine they go
to. :-)
73, Jerry W5KP

>
> BTW, have several pre-punched paper tapes in round metal cans.  Don't know
> what is on the tapes, but they look like they have been stored for a
while.
>
> 73 de Bill, AB6MT
> billsmith@ispwest.com
>