Shit Fist
 

I went to the LA Maritime Museum in San Pedro yesterday. Interesting place. They have a "Radio Room" staffed by "HAM" operators. While I was standing there, one of them put a key up on the window sill.

I started keying "International Maurice" - though it has been 40+ years since 05B at Bragg, and about 32 since I keyed on an ODA... as an 11C4S.

The old guy said, "Your 'dashes' should be three times as long as your 'dots'." I told him it had beeen 40+ years, and that I was told I was a 'shit fist' even then!

I was amazed at how much came to me when the key was under my fingers!
Shit fist or not.

QSF K

I catch myself listening to dit's and dah's on radio and TV programs then saying the letters and numbers out loud....

Alas a dying art.... :(


ZD after that much time in a room with headsets on...those dits and dahs are burned in our minds forever :D

Even with no-code licensing now many amateurs are starting to take it up, or rehone old skills. During several of the solar events this past year, the code was the only thing left still being heard.
:lifter

There was a time when I could send and receive 15/15 and whenever I listen to it again it comes back. Funny because after I completed 18E training I never touched a leg key again other than practicing once in awhile. When the DMDG came around I think a lot of guys were happy.

Its not dead...

AL

It's not dead, just tune in on the HF bands. It is still there. And it still gets through. I even have the AA9PW Ham Morse app on my phone. Call me a masochist.

I still have nightmares about leg keys .......

Normally I would agree. However, during a JCET to Vannuatu in '99 I was once assigned a set of useless freqs from Grp HQ. I ended up having to listen to "Air Latin America" or something like that because all I could hear was Mariachi music on those freqs. Code does not get through Mariachi music, I'm here to tell you.

Those foreign broadcast stations (Voice of Russia, any number of Salsa stations) run really w i d e too.
:mad:

My buddy and I used to tune our sets to the marine frequencies and say we were a mobile marine station in the South China Sea and talk all over the world...

I read the title and was gonna move this to the 18D forum until I saw it was about some commo s**t... :rolleyes: :D

Richard :munchin

I thought I heard the snapping of latex gloves going on... No proctological exams needed here, move along...

Not sure if anyone does anything like this, but as they don't teach us this stuff anymore I have started using this site to learn code. Hope you guys find it helpful.

http://lcwo.net/