20 Feb 08 08:19, TOM WALKER wrote to BOB ACKLEY:


 BA>> JV> Oh, you can't just do it in your head?  :)

 BA>> Uh, no.  I can - or could - read Morse code from an automorse
 BA>> receiver tape (it's a paper tape printed with what looks sort of
 BA>> like a square wave), I can - or could - send it.  But I have *never*
 BA>> been able to 'hear' it, and I've tried mightily Back in 1965 the
 BA>> Morse operators in the outfit tuned in an aircraft beacon for me and
 BA>> it took me nearly five minutes to decipher the three letters that
 BA>> beacon was sending over and over and over

 TW> There are some Brins in the World where Morse just dosen't compute.
 TW> Saddly I have one. I tried to get the code down the First time in
 TW> 1947 and failed. In the interviening years I have tried off and on
 TW> but Nothing works.

It would have paid great dividends if you had sat next to a buddy who
could copy it well. I've seen that happen before. Ask WB6ORX about it.

                R\%/itt



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