One of my class mates signed up for the Navy right after graduation from
High School. He ended up being a radio operator. Has retold the story
many times of several ops sitting in front of a mill {typewriter} and
all were copying the same message from multiple receivers. The average
message speed ran somewhat above 20 WPM. In one instance a message was
sent from command that a very large message of several thousand word
groups was to be sent. The best operators were assigned to the duty.
He says they copied a thousand word groups and then sending station
would break for confirmation. His response to the sending station was
RR QRQ......... {Roger Roger Send Faster}
73
Bob, K4TAX
On 11/20/2017 3:34 AM, Richard S. Leary wrote:
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
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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.
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