BBS: TELESC.NET.BR Assunto: Re: SDF De: Ed Vance Data: Wed, 1 Apr 2026 12:23:27 -0500 ----------------------------------------------------------- Rug Rat, Because a Junior High School friend delivered newspapers to my home, I would often walk along with him as he delivered papers. He had a Novice license, and was a year older than I was. He met a fellow in High School who had his Novice license too and one day that friend walked along as the newspapers were delivered. These two guys talked to each other whistling Morse Code and I had no idea if they were talking about Me. I went to the Library to find a book to help me learn Morse Code (CW). The book I found was a U.S. Army Manual called IIRC An Menomic Device for Learning The International Morse Code. I still recall the instructions for the letter P. The word Pan was shown as: P = a n .--. = .- -. Pan was easy for me to remember. Z was hard for me to learn until I got issued the Novice Call KN4ZIQ . My Phonetics for the ZIQ letters is: Zero Intelligence Quoation. I passed the Novice Test in the summer between 10th and 11th Grade . Because the wife thiught the wires I had running out of a doorway in one room and going up through the Attic Stairway looked ugly to her I removed them and haven't had a A1 QSO on my HF rig since. Although when vehicles pass by me on the road I often will look at the letters on their License Plate and "sound out" by thinking of the letters in Morse Code. As I wrote above I learned Morse Code to defend myself if my Paperboy and his friend ever talked about me in code againwhile Isas walking with them. That was 70 years ago. Another story: I was driving through a City in another State, talking to someone on 2Meter Mobile when another ham joined the QSO and accused Me of not owning a Amateur Radio License because my Call Sign now is W9ODR which indicated to him that I lived up North since the Ninth Call Sign Area is Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin area. I told him when I got my Novice License I lived in Kentucky and my accent stayed with me when I moved to Indiana , and if he didn't believe I was licensed I would say the alphabet backwards over the microphone, and started saying: DAH DAH DI DIT, DAH DI DAH DAH, DAH DI DI DAH, DI DAH DAH... ZYXW... and unkeyed the mike. If the Audio circuitry fails on your radio you could still use the radio to communicate by clicking the PTT Button ro send code. I haven't listened to see if anyone still used the CW portion of the Ham Bands, guess I just made a ROUNDTUIT for myself to listen to see if their is any CW attivity now on HF. 73 Ed --- SBBSecho 3.28-Linux * Origin: Capitol City Online (1:2320/107) ----------------------------------------------------------- [Voltar]