02-13-14 08:57 TOM WALKER wrote to ED VANCE about ARRL W1AW Code Practice

 TW> {at}MSGID: 
 EV>02-11-14 08:21 TOM WALKER wrote to ED VANCE about ARRL W1AW Code Practice

 EV> TW> {at}MSGID: 
 EV> EV> * Originally in: Fido_HAM
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 EV>You have talents I don't have and I've appreciated your sharing them
 EV>(and things) with me.

 EV>After I got my KN4ZIQ Novice ticket, on one Saturday several of us
 EV>had Crystals around 3.720 Mc/s and we had a Rag Chew at Five WPM.
 EV>The Rule was that no one was to BURN anyone out by sending too fast.
 EV>I remember that day very well, as Tony the tiger would say:
 EV>It was G-R-E-A-T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 EV>73   dit dit

 TW> There several clever ways to develop the "Rythum" of CW.
 TW> Unfortunatly ones brain byst be capable. Mine is NOT. A cannot
 TW> even carry a tune is a Bucket and back in my early life I was a
 TW> total failure at trying to learn how to dance.
 TW> I gave up and moved onto other things that I could master.

Tom,

There's no sense downing yourself about CW.
As I said above You have talents, and You share it with others, I don't
know it all , I probably only know .0001% of all there is to be known.

I'm sure there are other Licensed No Code'ers who excel in their field
of interest, and are able to share their knowledge via Amateur Radio
to other Hams, who are interested in learning different things that
aren't even related to Amateur Radio.

I just remembered that I was listening to a QSO on a Two Meter Repeater
where one Ham who had a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I, asked another Ham
on his way home from where he worked with Computers for his company,
about how to do something he wanted to do on his TRS-80, and I could
understand what was being said and that QSO got me interested in
wanting a computer whenever the price for one got down to where I could
buy one.

I wasn't in the QSO, I was just listening on a AM-FM-VHF portable radio
while I was at work.

I had read Ads in Popular Electronics and Radio-Electronics about
the early computer kits such as the KIM II, and I had learned enough
about TTL IC logic (as illogical as I am) that I could help the
Electrician at work with some PC Card troubleshooting.

But I still think that QSO I listened to of the Ham with a TRS-80
wanting some help, is what got me started being interested in what I
am doing right now, using a computer to talk to You (and other things).

As far as my talking about using higher speed CW than what my license
requires, if I hadn't been sent to Navy Radioman School for 16 weeks
of mostly sitting with a headset on my head listening to Morse Code
and pounding what I heard on a Typewriter, I'm sure my code speed
wouldn't be much above the 13WPM the General Class Exam required.

It was hard for me at first, and as I wrote earlier, it still is
because I couldn't read code as fast as I "Thought" I was able to do.

I've always tried to be a "Good LID" like my Ham friends told me to be
when I first got my ticket.

I'm always watching out for that dreaded Wolf Hong coming my way,
it ain't caught up with me yet.

73 GE  ._._.

... Zane Grey: 'Never insult 7 men when all you're packing is a 6-gun!'
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