05-17-14 13:24 TOM WALKER wrote to ROY WITT about Resurrected

 TW> {at}MSGID: 
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 RW>And you can't pass a General test to do the same? Sad, really sad to waste
 RW>all of that time and get nothing but bad attitude out of it.


 TW> I currently have a General Ham Licence. My problem was a lack
 TW> of rythum, Cannot dance or Sing, so when I took the practice
 TW> General Test in 1948 and passed it I failed the code test.

Tom,

When I just read what You said I had to think of the old saying about
someone who Can't Walk and Chew Gum at the same time.

Sorry, I just had to write that.  Please forgive me.

Also thinking about the word Rhythm made me think about that time when
I was in Navy Radiomans School at NOB NORVA while listening to Mixed
Words during a CW practice session and I heard the word TENNESSEE come
over my earphone headset during a practice session.

I stopped typing and paused to realize that hearing the word TENNESSEE
had more RHYTHM to it than what I thought the word MISSISSIPPI sounded
like.

As I paused think about what I heard I Sounded Out in my mind the word
TENNESSEE over and over about five times to make sure what I typed in
on my paper was the word TENNESSEE.

As a Novice in Kentucky I had a few Contacts with Stations in Tennessee
but they always just sent the first four letters TENN.

I didn't know that the whole word Sounded Much Better than the word
MISSISSIPPI, that I had been told was a good word to practice my
sending with on a Code Oscillator.

Sending TENNESSEE using my Vibroplex Key has a good feel to it too!

Sound it out (or Key it) for Yourself to see what I mean.


 TENNESSEE
 _ . _. _. . ... ... . .

 DAH  DIT  DAH-DIT  DAH-DIT  DIT  DI-DI-DIT  DI-DI-DIT  DIT  DIT
  T    E      N        N      E      S          S        E    E


 MISSISSIPPI
 __ .. ... ... .. ... ... .. .__. .__. ..

 DAH-DAH  DI-DIT  DI-DI-DIT  DI-DI-DIT  DI-DIT  DI-DI-DIT  DI-DI-DIT
    M       I        S          S         I        S          S

 DI-DIT  DI-DAH-DAH-DIT  DI-DAH-DAH-DIT  DI-DIT
   I           P               P           I


I Know I'm Wierd, Nobody Has To Tell Me About It.  :-) .... ..


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