Re: [Elecraft] Samuel Morse's birthday (Friday, April 27th); good excuse to break out your old hand keys

[Wes Stewart]

A friend sent me this:

https://www.surreynowleader.com/news/tapping-out-b-c-morse-telegraph-club-says-goodbye-to-an-era/

Wes  N7WS

On 4/25/2018 8:24 PM, Wayne Burdick wrote:

No matter how busy I am tomorrow, I aim to make at least one QSO on this coming 
Friday in honor of Samuel Morse’s birth (227 years ago!). I’ll be dusting off 
my oldest hand key for the occasion, one with a leg strap and Levi’s-style 
button that was used by the South African army circa WW2.

If you have an even older hand key, and you manage to get its contacts cleaned 
in time for this auspicious date, please send me a photo of it. I’ll collect 
the photos and post them on the Elecraft website photo gallery.

73,
Wayne
N6KR


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Re: [Elecraft] Samuel Morse's birthday (Friday, April 27th); good excuse to break out your old hand keys

[Carl Jón Denbow]

Historians, apparently, still argue over this issue.  There exists at 
least two letters in which Vail attributes the new code (replacing the 
original all number code with corresponding dictionary) to Morse and not 
himself.  So, some historians put a lot of weigh on those references and 
still give credit to Morse for the code with combinations of dits and 
das for various letters and numbers.  Others look at other evidence and 
think Vail was the key guy in this code system.  So, the truth is we 
still don't know for sure.  -- 73 de Carl N8VZ



Fred Jensen 
Friday, April 27, 2018 1:50 PM
Ahh yes, if life were fair, it would be the American Vail Code.  
Unlike Sam, Alfred had access to the family machine shop, was an 
accomplished machinist, and could build just about anything.  He even 
crafted his code so the most prevalent letters in English have the 
shortest codes.


In the mid 19th century, a wagon train was formed [in St Joseph MO, I 
think] for the trip to California led by a fellow named Donner.  It 
was a hugely dysfunctional group from the start, a homicide before 
they left and several more on the way.  Unlike the others, they 
managed to tee off the Paiute Chief near Pyramid Lake in NV, split up 
amid huge arguments, and, without guides [pissed off Chief, remember] 
were wiped out in the winter snows crossing the Sierra Nevada.


Conversely, the Stephens group, formed up, made good time, followed 
the advice of the Paiute guides provided by the Chief, and arrived in 
Sacramento with more people than when they left [several babies born 
on the way].  They spread out over northern and central California, 
were instrumental in founding several towns which became cities today, 
were active in government, and began some of the agricultural industry 
that marks the Central Valley today.  Legend has it that Stevens Creek 
in San Jose is named for their leader, misspelling his name in the 
process, although that may be urban legend too.


So what is the pass over the Sierra Nevada [originally the Lincoln 
Hwy, then US40, and now I-80] named for?  If life were fair, it would 
be Stephens Pass with Stephens Lake at it's eastern base, after a 
truly successful example of the western migration.  But life is rarely 
fair and it's Donner Pass and Donner Lake, named after the 
dysfunctional party racked by homicides, dumb decisions and, it is 
alleged, cannibalism, in a futile attempt to survive the winter.  
Alfred Vail is not alone.


73,

Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County



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Chris R. NW6V 
Friday, April 27, 2018 7:55 AM
Good Idea Wayne!

And I'll remind the assembled masses that the unsung hero in the story of
Morse code was a fellow named Alfred Vail - who played Wozniak to Morse's
"Steve Jobs." Vail pretty much invented the dash-dot code as we know 
it, as

well as the hand key. But it's Morse's name, as owner of the company that
paid for it, on the patents. Sic transit Gloria.

Searching archives, I found a note where Morse urged Vail to increase the
spacing between the characters he was sending because they were running
together. Imagine that! Morse was the first guy ever to complain about
somebody's fist!

73 Chris NW6V


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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

No matter how busy I am tomorrow, I aim to make at least one QSO on this
coming Friday in honor of Samuel Morse?s birth (227 years ago!). I?ll be
dusting off my oldest hand key for the occasion, one with a leg strap and
Levi?s-style button that was used by the South African army circa WW2.

If you have an even older hand key, and you manage to get its contacts
cleaned in time for this auspicious date, please send me a photo of it.
I?ll collect the photos and post them on the Elecraft website photo 
gallery.


73,
Wayne
N6KR
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Re: [Elecraft] Samuel Morse's birthday (Friday, April 27th); good excuse to break out your old hand keys

[John Oppenheimer]

I was inspired by Wayne's announcement to setup outside on my back
porch.  I decided that Morse code is Morse code independent of the key
and used a memory keyer and Vibroplex Iambic key.

The weather in Texas was wonderful!

Calling CQ resulted with several QSOs. It was a fun day.

The setup:
http://www.kn5l.net/SBM/

John KN5L
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Re: [Elecraft] Samuel Morse's birthday (Friday, April 27th); good excuse to break out your old hand keys

[Fred Jensen]

Not unlike today, I guess.

73,

Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County

On 4/27/2018 8:59 PM, EricJ wrote:
True, but without the promotion and entrepreneurship of Morse, Vail 
would likely not have developed the machines and code, and would have 
just been another guy puttering in the family machine shop. Both made 
it happen, but Morse was the face that people saw when the invention 
was demonstrated.


Eric KE6US


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Re: [Elecraft] Samuel Morse's birthday (Friday, April 27th); good excuse to break out your old hand keys

[EricJ]

True, but without the promotion and entrepreneurship of Morse, Vail 
would likely not have developed the machines and code, and would have 
just been another guy puttering in the family machine shop. Both made it 
happen, but Morse was the face that people saw when the invention was 
demonstrated.


Eric KE6US


On 4/27/2018 10:50 AM, Fred Jensen wrote:
Ahh yes, if life were fair, it would be the American Vail Code. Unlike 
Sam, Alfred had access to the family machine shop, was an accomplished 
machinist, and could build just about anything.  He even crafted his 
code so the most prevalent letters in English have the shortest codes.


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Re: [Elecraft] Samuel Morse's birthday (Friday, April 27th); good excuse to break out your old hand keys

[Mike Markowski]

Wayne, you are!  73 es tnx qso,

Mike ab3ap

On 04/27/2018 08:45 PM, Wayne Burdick wrote:

QSL, Dave.

I worked a bunch of stations in a row on 14.038. Thanks, guys, for making me 
feel like rare DX :)

73,
Wayne
N6KR




On Apr 27, 2018, at 5:39 PM, David Bunte  wrote:

Wayne -

Many thanks for posting where you were on 20. I did not see any spots for you, 
and you were down in the noise far enough that I would not likely have found 
you... but then I heard your CQ 'just' well enough to tell that it was you. 
Snagging CE2SV on 10 meters, and working you for the first time, were manor 
highlights of this special day.

Thanks for the QSO (brief tho it was).

Dave - K9FN

On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 8:22 PM, Wayne Burdick  wrote:
FWIW, I’m calling CQ on 14038 right now. Band is noisy but W1AW is booming in.

Wayne
N6KR

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Re: [Elecraft] Samuel Morse's birthday (Friday, April 27th); good excuse to break out your old hand keys

[Wayne Burdick]

QSL, Dave. 

I worked a bunch of stations in a row on 14.038. Thanks, guys, for making me 
feel like rare DX :)

73,
Wayne
N6KR



> On Apr 27, 2018, at 5:39 PM, David Bunte  wrote:
> 
> Wayne -
> 
> Many thanks for posting where you were on 20. I did not see any spots for 
> you, and you were down in the noise far enough that I would not likely have 
> found you... but then I heard your CQ 'just' well enough to tell that it was 
> you. Snagging CE2SV on 10 meters, and working you for the first time, were 
> manor highlights of this special day.
> 
> Thanks for the QSO (brief tho it was).
> 
> Dave - K9FN
> 
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 8:22 PM, Wayne Burdick  wrote:
> FWIW, I’m calling CQ on 14038 right now. Band is noisy but W1AW is booming in.
> 
> Wayne
> N6KR
> 
> 
> > On Apr 25, 2018, at 9:49 PM, Fred Jensen  wrote:
> > 
> > So where and when might we find you?  Can I still use my keyer?  My hand 
> > key looks like a work of art but is so clunky even Alfred would have 
> > rejected it.  Sam is reported to have been so distraught that his numerical 
> > dictionary was being rejected in favor of "copying by ear" that he took to 
> > bed for several months.  Sadly, it wasn't his bed, he was a guest at a 
> > friends house.  We do have a guest room, but need advance notice should you 
> > plan to become equally distraught.  More than a day or two and we'll have 
> > to schedule a trip to Costco. Granddaughter's track meet is canceled on 
> > Fri, I will have time.
> > 
> > Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
> > Sparks NV DM09dn
> > Washoe County
> > 
> > On 4/25/2018 8:24 PM, Wayne Burdick wrote:
> >> No matter how busy I am tomorrow, I aim to make at least one QSO on this 
> >> coming Friday in honor of Samuel Morse’s birth (227 years ago!). I’ll be 
> >> dusting off my oldest hand key for the occasion, one with a leg strap and 
> >> Levi’s-style button that was used by the South African army circa WW2.
> >> 
> >> If you have an even older hand key, and you manage to get its contacts 
> >> cleaned in time for this auspicious date, please send me a photo of it. 
> >> I’ll collect the photos and post them on the Elecraft website photo 
> >> gallery.
> >> 
> >> 73,
> >> Wayne
> >> N6KR
> 
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Re: [Elecraft] Samuel Morse's birthday (Friday, April 27th); good excuse to break out your old hand keys

[David Bunte]

Wayne -

Many thanks for posting where you were on 20. I did not see any spots for
you, and you were down in the noise far enough that I would not likely have
found you... but then I heard your CQ 'just' well enough to tell that it
was you. Snagging CE2SV on 10 meters, and working you for the first time,
were manor highlights of this special day.

Thanks for the QSO (brief tho it was).

Dave - K9FN

On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 8:22 PM, Wayne Burdick  wrote:

> FWIW, I’m calling CQ on 14038 right now. Band is noisy but W1AW is booming
> in.
>
> Wayne
> N6KR
>
>
> > On Apr 25, 2018, at 9:49 PM, Fred Jensen  wrote:
> >
> > So where and when might we find you?  Can I still use my keyer?  My hand
> key looks like a work of art but is so clunky even Alfred would have
> rejected it.  Sam is reported to have been so distraught that his numerical
> dictionary was being rejected in favor of "copying by ear" that he took to
> bed for several months.  Sadly, it wasn't his bed, he was a guest at a
> friends house.  We do have a guest room, but need advance notice should you
> plan to become equally distraught.  More than a day or two and we'll have
> to schedule a trip to Costco. Granddaughter's track meet is canceled on
> Fri, I will have time.
> >
> > Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
> > Sparks NV DM09dn
> > Washoe County
> >
> > On 4/25/2018 8:24 PM, Wayne Burdick wrote:
> >> No matter how busy I am tomorrow, I aim to make at least one QSO on
> this coming Friday in honor of Samuel Morse’s birth (227 years ago!). I’ll
> be dusting off my oldest hand key for the occasion, one with a leg strap
> and Levi’s-style button that was used by the South African army circa WW2.
> >>
> >> If you have an even older hand key, and you manage to get its contacts
> cleaned in time for this auspicious date, please send me a photo of it.
> I’ll collect the photos and post them on the Elecraft website photo gallery.
> >>
> >> 73,
> >> Wayne
> >> N6KR
>
>
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Re: [Elecraft] Samuel Morse's birthday (Friday, April 27th); good excuse to break out your old hand keys

[Wayne Burdick]

FWIW, I’m calling CQ on 14038 right now. Band is noisy but W1AW is booming in.

Wayne
N6KR


> On Apr 25, 2018, at 9:49 PM, Fred Jensen  wrote:
> 
> So where and when might we find you?  Can I still use my keyer?  My hand key 
> looks like a work of art but is so clunky even Alfred would have rejected it. 
>  Sam is reported to have been so distraught that his numerical dictionary was 
> being rejected in favor of "copying by ear" that he took to bed for several 
> months.  Sadly, it wasn't his bed, he was a guest at a friends house.  We do 
> have a guest room, but need advance notice should you plan to become equally 
> distraught.  More than a day or two and we'll have to schedule a trip to 
> Costco. Granddaughter's track meet is canceled on Fri, I will have time.
> 
> Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
> Sparks NV DM09dn
> Washoe County
> 
> On 4/25/2018 8:24 PM, Wayne Burdick wrote:
>> No matter how busy I am tomorrow, I aim to make at least one QSO on this 
>> coming Friday in honor of Samuel Morse’s birth (227 years ago!). I’ll be 
>> dusting off my oldest hand key for the occasion, one with a leg strap and 
>> Levi’s-style button that was used by the South African army circa WW2.
>> 
>> If you have an even older hand key, and you manage to get its contacts 
>> cleaned in time for this auspicious date, please send me a photo of it. I’ll 
>> collect the photos and post them on the Elecraft website photo gallery.
>> 
>> 73,
>> Wayne
>> N6KR


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Re: [Elecraft] Samuel Morse's birthday (Friday, April 27th); good excuse to break out your old hand keys

[Phil Kane]

On 4/27/2018 10:50 AM, Fred Jensen wrote:

> Ahh yes, if life were fair, it would be the American Vail Code.  Unlike
> Sam, Alfred had access to the family machine shop, was an accomplished
> machinist, and could build just about anything.  He even crafted his
> code so the most prevalent letters in English have the shortest codes.

Not to be confused with his cousin Theodore Vail who was the first
president of AT

73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
Elecraft K2/100   s/n 5402

From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest
Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon
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Re: [Elecraft] Samuel Morse's birthday (Friday, April 27th); good excuse to break out your old hand keys

[Fred Jensen]

Ahh yes, if life were fair, it would be the American Vail Code.  Unlike 
Sam, Alfred had access to the family machine shop, was an accomplished 
machinist, and could build just about anything.  He even crafted his 
code so the most prevalent letters in English have the shortest codes.


In the mid 19th century, a wagon train was formed [in St Joseph MO, I 
think] for the trip to California led by a fellow named Donner.  It was 
a hugely dysfunctional group from the start, a homicide before they left 
and several more on the way.  Unlike the others, they managed to tee off 
the Paiute Chief near Pyramid Lake in NV, split up amid huge arguments, 
and, without guides [pissed off Chief, remember] were wiped out in the 
winter snows crossing the Sierra Nevada.


Conversely, the Stephens group, formed up, made good time, followed the 
advice of the Paiute guides provided by the Chief, and arrived in 
Sacramento with more people than when they left [several babies born on 
the way].  They spread out over northern and central California, were 
instrumental in founding several towns which became cities today, were 
active in government, and began some of the agricultural industry that 
marks the Central Valley today.  Legend has it that Stevens Creek in San 
Jose is named for their leader, misspelling his name in the process, 
although that may be urban legend too.


So what is the pass over the Sierra Nevada [originally the Lincoln Hwy, 
then US40, and now I-80] named for?  If life were fair, it would be 
Stephens Pass with Stephens Lake at it's eastern base, after a truly 
successful example of the western migration.  But life is rarely fair 
and it's Donner Pass and Donner Lake, named after the dysfunctional 
party racked by homicides, dumb decisions and, it is alleged, 
cannibalism, in a futile attempt to survive the winter.  Alfred Vail is 
not alone.


73,

Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County

On 4/27/2018 4:55 AM, Chris R. NW6V wrote:

Good Idea Wayne!

And I'll remind the assembled masses that the unsung hero in the story of
Morse code was a fellow named Alfred Vail - who played Wozniak to Morse's
"Steve Jobs." Vail pretty much invented the dash-dot code as we know it, as
well as the hand key. But it's Morse's name, as owner of the company that
paid for it, on the patents. Sic transit Gloria.

Searching archives, I found a note where Morse urged Vail to increase the
spacing between the characters he was sending because they were running
together. Imagine that! Morse was the first guy ever to complain about
somebody's fist!

73 Chris NW6V



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Re: [Elecraft] Samuel Morse's birthday (Friday, April 27th); good excuse to break out your old hand keys

[Chris R. NW6V]

Hilarious Fred!

That image of a woefully distraught Sam will never leave me :-)

73 Chris NW6V



Message: 10
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 21:49:25 -0700
From: Fred Jensen <k6...@foothill.net>
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Samuel Morse's birthday (Friday, April 27th);
    good excuse to break out your old hand keys
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed

So where and when might we find you?? Can I still use my keyer?? My hand
key looks like a work of art but is so clunky even Alfred would have
rejected it.? Sam is reported to have been so distraught that his
numerical dictionary was being rejected in favor of "copying by ear"
that he took to bed for several months.? Sadly, it wasn't his bed, he
was a guest at a friends house.? We do have a guest room, but need
advance notice should you plan to become equally distraught.? More than
a day or two and we'll have to schedule a trip to Costco.
Granddaughter's track meet is canceled on Fri, I will have time.

Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County
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Re: [Elecraft] Samuel Morse's birthday (Friday, April 27th); good excuse to break out your old hand keys

[Chris R. NW6V]

Good Idea Wayne!

And I'll remind the assembled masses that the unsung hero in the story of
Morse code was a fellow named Alfred Vail - who played Wozniak to Morse's
"Steve Jobs." Vail pretty much invented the dash-dot code as we know it, as
well as the hand key. But it's Morse's name, as owner of the company that
paid for it, on the patents. Sic transit Gloria.

Searching archives, I found a note where Morse urged Vail to increase the
spacing between the characters he was sending because they were running
together. Imagine that! Morse was the first guy ever to complain about
somebody's fist!

73 Chris NW6V


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Message: 8
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 20:24:40 -0700
From: Wayne Burdick 
Subject:
Message-ID: <48f17a07-a981-4ced-a8c2-4131bdb53...@elecraft.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

No matter how busy I am tomorrow, I aim to make at least one QSO on this
coming Friday in honor of Samuel Morse?s birth (227 years ago!). I?ll be
dusting off my oldest hand key for the occasion, one with a leg strap and
Levi?s-style button that was used by the South African army circa WW2.

If you have an even older hand key, and you manage to get its contacts
cleaned in time for this auspicious date, please send me a photo of it.
I?ll collect the photos and post them on the Elecraft website photo gallery.

73,
Wayne
N6KR
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[Elecraft] Samuel Morse's birthday (Friday, April 27th); good excuse to break out your old hand keys

[Geoff Clark]

Thanks for the reminder Wayne, it's also the anniversary of the day I took
my CW test!

I got home from work and called CQ on 20m, lit up RBNs all over the USA but
only one caller -  K7KV, thanks for the CW QSO on Samuel's birthday!
Everyone else must be busy on FT8 :-(
73
Geoff ZL3GA
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Re: [Elecraft] Samuel Morse's birthday (Friday, April 27th); good excuse to break out your old hand keys

[Fred Jensen]

So where and when might we find you?  Can I still use my keyer?  My hand 
key looks like a work of art but is so clunky even Alfred would have 
rejected it.  Sam is reported to have been so distraught that his 
numerical dictionary was being rejected in favor of "copying by ear" 
that he took to bed for several months.  Sadly, it wasn't his bed, he 
was a guest at a friends house.  We do have a guest room, but need 
advance notice should you plan to become equally distraught.  More than 
a day or two and we'll have to schedule a trip to Costco. 
Granddaughter's track meet is canceled on Fri, I will have time.


Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County

On 4/25/2018 8:24 PM, Wayne Burdick wrote:

No matter how busy I am tomorrow, I aim to make at least one QSO on this coming 
Friday in honor of Samuel Morse’s birth (227 years ago!). I’ll be dusting off 
my oldest hand key for the occasion, one with a leg strap and Levi’s-style 
button that was used by the South African army circa WW2.

If you have an even older hand key, and you manage to get its contacts cleaned 
in time for this auspicious date, please send me a photo of it. I’ll collect 
the photos and post them on the Elecraft website photo gallery.

73,
Wayne
N6KR



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[Elecraft] Samuel Morse's birthday (Friday, April 27th); good excuse to break out your old hand keys

[Wayne Burdick]

No matter how busy I am tomorrow, I aim to make at least one QSO on this coming 
Friday in honor of Samuel Morse’s birth (227 years ago!). I’ll be dusting off 
my oldest hand key for the occasion, one with a leg strap and Levi’s-style 
button that was used by the South African army circa WW2. 

If you have an even older hand key, and you manage to get its contacts cleaned 
in time for this auspicious date, please send me a photo of it. I’ll collect 
the photos and post them on the Elecraft website photo gallery.

73,
Wayne
N6KR

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