02-16-14 07:40 Mike Luther wrote to Tom Walker about ARRL W1AW Code Practice   
      
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    ML> Dit Dit Dit Dit  Dit Dit Tom!  And others, chortle..   
      
      
    EV>02-11-14 08:21 TOM WALKER wrote to ED VANCE about   
      
    TW> There several clever ways to develop the "Rythum" of CW.   
    TW> Unfortunatly ones brain byst be capable. Mine is NOT. A cannot even   
    TW> carry a tune is a Bucket and back in my early life I was a total failure   
    TW> at trying to learn how to dance.   
    TW> I gave up and moved onto other things that I could master.   
      
    ML> It was W5GDK, Dr. George Huebner, the deacon of the Episcopal   
    ML> Church here in College Station, Texas, where I had my first   
    ML> crystal set and 'long wire' antenna at our house in 1948 that I   
    ML> built there at nine years of age that got me interested in ham   
    ML> radio.   
      
   Mike,   
      
   Reading about your experiences was interesting.   
      
   I will "sound off" the Alphabetic Letter portion on the License Plate   
   of vehicles that pass me on the Left, in my head, when traffic isn't   
   too congested.   
      
   Your mention of Radio Shack made me think to tell you I have a RS   
   Catalog from the early 1960's on my bookshelf when their Main Store   
   was in Boston, Mass. before Tandy Corp. purchased RS and moved the   
   Main Office to Texas.   
      
   Before I got my Novice license I had a terrible time with the letters   
   X Y Z, until my ticket arrived with the suffix ZIQ.   
      
   I was really hopeing to get the suffix ZON for Zero Ought Nothing,   
   but that didn't happen, but I was happy with Zero Intelligence Quotient   
   while I had that call sign.   
      
   My older brother had a Crystal Set with a Cat's Whisker on it, and he   
   let me listen to it some.   
   Years later when I was in the 11th Grade I used a 1N34A Diode to build   
   my set because I didn't want to have to fiddle with that tiny wire just   
   to hear a AM Broadcast Station.   
      
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