Never got around to the c w nets, but that's
impressive! I've always coppied in my head, and don't
know if I could write it down too. My hand always
cramped when I used slate and stylus, and I had a
braille writer, and you can't c your mistakes til you
move the slate down, so I wasn't ever too inthusiastic
about it, *grin*. I was really working hard at field
days to copy high speed c w, keep all the info in my
head long enough to spit it out to my logger, for some
reason though I got better the tireder I got, hi.

--- Mike Freeman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Used to handle traffic on the CW TFC nets in the
> 1970's; was on WSN a
> lot and represented it to RN& several times and once
> RN7 to PAN and
> back; also when I was at New Mexico State, handled
> traffic on SWN and
> represented it at TWN.  I found it a bit distracting
> to use a slate and
> do CW at the same time so used to tape the messages
> and then send them
> on, sending about three characters behind my
> receiving.  Now *that* blew
> peoples' minds when they watched me do it!
>
> Mike Freeman < K 7 U I J >
>
> On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Brett Winchester wrote:
>
> > I recall doing a great deal with MARS BUT MY
> PERSONAL LIFE GOT TOO BUSY TO =
> > SUSTAIN THIS WITH GROWING KIDS AND OTHER
> ACTIVITIES.  THERE WAS A TIME =
> > WHILE IN COLLEGE THAT I LOGGED  120 OR 140 HOURS A
> MONTH.  I DO RECALL ONE =
> > EVENING TAKING 70 NMAT MESSAGES FROM  THE REGION
> DISTRIBUTION NET FOR =
> > Idaho.  that session my plate resister in my swan
> 270 blew midway through =
> > the net in my dorm room and I ran with my cassette
> recorder etc about =BD =
> > mile to the w7uq university station to continue
> taking the traffic off the =
> > net.  I was so out of breath that I told the NECOS
> to read conversational =
> > speed and I toned each message as it went by.
> than I rogered for all at =
> > one time.  This admittedly was not according to
> our rules and practice at =
> > the time but got the job done. =20
> >
> > More  stories later but need to get to work.
> >
> > thank you!
> >
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> > >>> <[log in to unmask]> 11/19/03 01:50AM >>>
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> > .113]>
> >
> > On 2003-11-18 [log in to unmask] said:
> >    >Yes there used to be a lot of traffic
> especially from the Great
> >    >Lakes Naval Training Center who sent out book
> messages: "Arrived
> >    >safely USNTC Great Lakes Illinois.  Will write
> as soon as I get my
> >    >company number."  Boy there were thousands
> sent hi hi.  Used to get
> >    >from Camp LeJune, NC and from the US Marine
> Training Corps in
> >    >Twenty Nine Palms California.  Then there was
> the Florida State
> >    >Fair etc etc.  Lots of fun.
> > Yah I remember hearing a lot of those, "arrived
> safely Marine Corps
> > recruiting depot San Diego California" and others.
> >
> > SOme folks still do them from certain events.  I
> believe the FLorida
> > STate fair still did some a couple years ago as
> well as the EAA
> > flyover and another air show in FLorida.
> >
> > JOe lee from Pinole California uses ham radio to
> send greetings to
> > veterans of his old military unit and used NTS to
> remind them of their
> > reunion last year.  I used NTS a few years ago to
> remind family
> > members who lived far away   to make plans to
> attend the big family
> > reunion.
> >
> > 73 de nf5b
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Richard Webb
> >
> > Electric Spider Productions
> > "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain
> a little temporary
> > safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
> >
> > --- Benjamin Franklin, NOvember 1755 from the
> > Historical review of Pennsylvania
> >


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