My apologies for opening what became an overwhelmingly nice, polite, friendly, and educational thread for me and perhaps a few others. This is a place where exposing ignorance is rewarded with gold-plated knowledge and bonhomie. I'm not really sorry but good form dictates that response. My replies here are SK.
73 On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 12:28 PM Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft < [email protected]> wrote: > In the interest of releiving email overload for our readers, lets close > this OT > thread at this time. Its well past the single day posting limit. > > 73, > Eric > List Moderator > /elecraft.com/ > > On 6/12/2017 9:14 PM, Doug Smith wrote: > > I was one of the last Radio Officers to sail an all CW ship. It was the > SS Tampa Bay, call sign KNJA. We worked our way up and down the South > American coasts from ports in the US gulf coast. > > > > I mainly worked WLO on 16 and 22 MHz. We typically hummed along around > 30 WPM due to the requirement for perfect copy in both directions. I once > made a mistake -- spelled a guys name wrong by one letter (Johnson vs. > Johnsen or some such thing) and I really caught hell from The Old Man. That > didn't happen again! > > > > One day I was just doing a poor job of sending and had to keep > correcting myself. After all the traffic was sent I apologized to the shore > station op. He said, "Are you kidding? You have the best fist I've copied > all day." Nice guy, made me feel much better about my sloppy sending. I > have little doubt he was a Ham. > > > > You can see a pic of a typical shipboard radio room of that era at: > > http://www.w7kf.com/Articles/Rigs/ITTMackay3020A.html > > > > Fond memories... > > > > 73, > > Doug, W7KF > > > > > >> On Jun 12, 2017, at 5:33 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> I've seen commercial ship/shore traffic running very slow due to a > shipboard > >> operator who was not proficient at CW. The shore station had to run > equally > >> slow, no matter how painful. > > ______________________________________________________________ > > Elecraft mailing list > > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > Message delivered to [email protected] > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] > -- Jim Sturges, N3SZ Amateur Radio operators do it with frequency. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
