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   PID: Synchronet 3.17c-Win32  Apr 18 2019 MSC 1800   
   TID: SBBSecho 3.07-Win32 r3.111 Apr 18 2019 MSC 1800   
   Mike,   
      
   MP>Yes, mine had those, too.  :)  I enjoyed turning it on just to practice.  I   
   MP>was in Cub Scouts back then, and they still taught some Morse Code back   
   MP>then.   
      
     There are 2 funny stories I've heard over the years about Morse Code.   
      
   1) I asked one area ham (who passed away several years ago), what his   
   secret to learning Morse Code was. He replied "I learned all the dirty   
   words first!!" . Laughing, I said "Well, you can't say them on the   
   air...but if it helps, more power to you!!". Sure enough, I was   
   monitoring a conference server on the mode of Echolink, and this one   
   club was doing a Morse Code class over the repeater. The first 4 letters   
   they taught were the "S expletive". I thought "I'll be d@mned!!". :P   
   But, when you looked at the dot and dash pattern (as ... .... .. - ), it   
   made perfect sense.   
      
   2) Four old boys were sitting at a restaurant table in Annapolis,   
   Maryland, telling each other dirty jokes in CW (Continuous Wave, another   
   name for Morse Code). This drop dead gorgerous, curvaceous, sexy female   
   walked up to them, and admonished "You boys need to watch your   
   language!! I teach CW at the Naval Academy across the street!!" and   
   walked out!! They were as red as tomatoes!!    
      
     I personally can send great, but lock up trying to receive.   
      
   Daryl, WX4QZ   
      
   ===   
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