Kevin, My two cents worth. I was a USAF Morse Intercept Operator for almost 8 years. Started in Mar 1955. School was 7 months. Of that, CW training was 3+ hours a day, 5 days a week, for 7 months. Graduating speed requirement was 20 wpm. I started knowing zilch, ended up school at 23 wpm. Characters taught then were A thru Z, 1 thru 0, plus "special characters". Total character count was in excess of 45 characters. Some special characters were colon (:), semi-colon (;), ampersand (&), dollar ($), exclamation point (!), quotes ("), plus other normal punctuation marks. I worked as a MIO for 6 1/2 years in Europe. Germany, Turkey, and England. Consecutive tours. We copied CW as it was sent. If it ended up looking like Greek, or any other language, it was still CW, but transcribed onto paper, as whatever was sent. No computers back then, just a pair of Hammerlund SP-600's, R-390's or 51J's, and a Royal or Remington manual mil spec typewriter, and lots of 6 ply, fan fold paper with carbons. In Turkey, the building next to our ops area was Navy ops. Their CT's were reknown for being pretty excellent operators. Glad to see the Navy MIO's back. Just my $0.02 worth.
73, Rick, W7LKG -----Original Message----- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Kevin Cozens Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2017 23:19 To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] O.T. Morse is not dead, at least in the U.S. Navy On 2017-11-19 04:24 AM, Richard Lamont wrote: > The people being trained by the US Navy to read Morse are intercept > operators. The article indicated that they are only learning morse for a standard latin (ie. English) alphabet. A number of years ago I visited the radio room while on a boat cruise in the Caribbean. The radio operator was copying down morse coming in over the radio. I tried to see what I could copy in my head but I couldn't make sense of it. When I looked at what the radio operator was writing down it was Greek. I don't mean as in "it was Greek to me" but that it was actually in the Greek language. The US Navy morse interceptors will need to be able to copy morse in multiple languages to be truly effective. -- Cheers! Kevin. http://www.ve3syb.ca/ |"Nerds make the shiny things that distract Owner of Elecraft K2 #2172 | the mouth-breathers, and that's why we're | powerful!" #include <disclaimer/favourite> | --Chris Hardwick ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to w7...@comcast.net ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com