Talk about hypnotic but dull program content!  My NC-300 receiver had 160
meter coverage and back then, LORAN was king, alas.  Anyway, sometimes I'd
put on a pair of phones and turn it up fairly loud.  The shifting phases
of the pulses made it sound as though the thing was getting closer and
farther away.  Definitely cheaper and less harmful than pot or ecstasy!

Mike Freeman <[log in to unmask]>
Amateur Radio: < K 7 U I J >
... Go M's!!!!!

On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Will Smith wrote:

> Hi Phil,
>
> Back in my sighted days I worked all night wiring up a plate modulator for
> my CW rig and for some reason I decided to leave WWV on until the job was
> done!  I began to time my speed with the soldering gun in 5 minute
> increments and it was kind of strangely hypnotic.  But it sure was dull
> program content! ()grin)
>
> 73,
>
> Will, K4SAY
> [log in to unmask]
>  On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Phil Scovell wrote:
>
> > Yep Mike,
> >
> > I well remember that modulated CW.  However, there were many times, when I
> > was growing up in Nebraska, that I could copy the CW part when the A M audio
> > just wasn't strong enough to hear.  Of course, in those days, they sent
> > every five minutes instead of every minute.  Talk about dedication to WWV.
> > I had a friend, when we were at the school for the blind, who literally
> > stayed up all night once and listened to WWV for eight hours straight.  When
> > I asked him why he did it, he said, I just wanted to hear what it was like
> > at night.
> >
> > Phil
> > k0ns
> >
>