05-17-14 13:24 TOM WALKER wrote to ROY WITT about Resurrected   
      
    TW> @MSGID: <53788E01.486.amtradio@capcity2.synchro.net>   
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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.  :-) .... ..   
      
      
   ... The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from oneWhoDoes.   
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