Hi Jim,
No need to apologize. All of the thread's posts are good info - We just try to
keep the volume of responses to OT threads down to 5-10 to keep list email
volume under control for our other readers.
73,
Eric
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On 6/13/2017 9:34 AM, Jim Sr Sturges wrote:
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
<e...@elecraft.com <mailto:e...@elecraft.com>> 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
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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 <r...@cobi.biz
<mailto:r...@cobi.biz>> 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.
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