02-13-14 08:57 TOM WALKER wrote to ED VANCE about ARRL W1AW Code Practice   
      
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    EV>02-11-14 08:21 TOM WALKER wrote to ED VANCE about ARRL W1AW Code Practice   
      
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    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  ._._.   
      
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