Re: [Elecraft] Paper Tape CW sender

FCC office in NYC, mid 60', 2 trips and passed the General and Extra. Had a friend whose call will not be disclosed who was far better at CW than I. Every time he went from nerves just lost it. On his last trip in mid way through the exam the tape machine developed a problem. The

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Similar thing happened to me at a West Gulf Convention in Dallas in the early 50's. After the CW testone or more claimed there was a fault in the letters. I had passed but. along with several others hadto repeat. Fortunately, I was prepared so passed it again and got my Class B and Class A.This

Re: [Elecraft] Paper Tape CW sender

Let's wind down and end this OT thread in the interest of controlling email overload for other list readers. (We're now at 35 posts..) 73, Eric /elecraft.com List Moderator etc. / On 11/1/2016 11:32 AM, Fred Jensen wrote: Los Angeles, early 1953: They used a 2-hole tape reader. Big thing,

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FCC Detroit office, early 70’s. The punch tape code sending machine had issues, very warbly. I still passed. They got a back-up machine out and let those that failed retake the test. Not one of them passed on their second go-round with the replacement machine. I guess you are either

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Los Angeles, early 1953: They used a 2-hole tape reader. Big thing, smelled of oil, sat in a tin tray next to the examiner's desk. Used a tach on the motor shaft to indicate speed on a gauge that looked exactly like a pressure gauge on a steam locomotive. Very imposing and intimidating,

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On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 5:49 AM, W5RDW wrote: > When I took my 13 wpm General Test at the Houston FCC office in 1961, > they used a tape fed code machine. Ah yes Roger, I remember that at my General test in 1958. I still remember the first sentence:

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FCC Detroit office, early 70’s. The punch tape code sending machine had issues, very warbly. I still passed. They got a back-up machine out and let those that failed retake the test. Not one of them passed on their second go-round with the replacement machine. I guess you are either

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When I took my 13 wpm General Test at the Houston FCC office in 1961, they used a tape fed code machine. The only problem with it was the extremely low pitch it was set for, much lower than what I was use to. So many complained after the first part of the run was sent, they raised the pitch and

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Guessing a lot of us first licensed in 1950's learned code from one of these. Instruct-O-Graph sounds familiar. My ham license instructor (elmer) used one in night-time class a nearby HS (Caro, MI). He was music teacher for his day job. Must have trusted me as he let me take it home after

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lman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Paper Tape CW sender Some museums would LOVE to display those. I suggested http://radiomarine.org/ I donated an old bug to them a few years back and they were very appreciative. Contact RD (Richard Dillman) at i...@radiomarine.org. They are great bunch helping

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: Elecraft [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Charlie T, K3ICH Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2016 4:39 PM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Paper Tape CW sender Are y'all talking about an "Instructo-Graph" (if I spelled it correctly)? Got a couple of those i

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30, 2016 5:57 PM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Paper Tape CW sender Interesting!  I used to own one of these (the single-hole variety) - it never worked too well, but then I was no expert at it.  Don't remember where I got rid of it - probably at a hamfest for a song. I took my extra cod

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Charlie k3ICH -Original Message- From: Elecraft [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of George Kidder Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2016 5:57 PM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Paper Tape CW sender Interesting! I used to own one of these (the single-hole variety) - i

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-Original Message- From: Elecraft [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Don Hall Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2016 1:54 PM To: Kenneth Christiansen; Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Paper Tape CW sender Shades of yore!! I learned enough code to pass my Class C

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o:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Don Hall Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2016 1:54 PM To: Kenneth Christiansen; Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Paper Tape CW sender Shades of yore!! I learned enough code to pass my Class C code test given by an ex-Merchant Marineoperat

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Interesting! I used to own one of these (the single-hole variety) - it never worked too well, but then I was no expert at it. Don't remember where I got rid of it - probably at a hamfest for a song. I took my extra code exam with a portable version of this machine, run by the FCC examiner.

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Oh wow - my Dad had one of those - does that go back a few years. Donate it to W1AW museum - I don't know who the station engineer is anymore as I left there in the late '80s, but I'm sure they would really appreciate the donation. Tom, W1TEF On 10/30/2016 9:33 AM, Kenneth Christiansen

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When I worked at W1AW back in the mid-70s, we were still using paper tape to send CW, but it was 5-hole tape, the same as used for RTTY. A converter box made by Frederick Electronics converted the RTTY Baudot code to Morse. However, we did have an old 2-hole CW tape machine that was used for

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Shades of yore!! I learned enough code to pass my Class C code test given by an ex-Merchant Marineoperator in 1948 by using one of these belonging to my dad W5RLM(SK).Shows my longevity(age!!)73  Don K5AQW5OBS courtesy of the paper tape machine On Sunday, October 30, 2016 8:34 AM, Kenneth

[Elecraft] Paper Tape CW sender

Hi to the group. My silent key friend's XYL has a paper tape morse code device and we would like to donate it to a museum. It is in a nice looking wood box. It has one paper tape, a hand crank on the side of the box and should be saved as an important piece of history. His XYL and I are both