Robert Tellefsen wrote:
Hi Ron
Looks like we are of the same vintage.
I was a 1952 Novice too.
Count me in that year as well. I learned my 5 wpm from and
Instructograph that the HS radio club had. Engineering school and grad
school/employment took up much of my time after that and I stayed a Tech
until 1962, took the Advanced in 1968 when it again became available,
and 20+ wpm Extra in 1974.
I remember working every day on my code, sturggling up to 13 wpm.
The night before I took the bus into Seattle for the General test, I
had a buddy send me some code practice for a final tune up.
So, he launched into this string of stuff that made no sense to me
at all. I had to ask him, what was he sending? Turns out he was
sending the index to the tube tables in the back of the handbook! :-)
Really had me going 'til I understood what was coming at me.
I was TDY in New York at the time so copying W1AW's code practice to get
to 13 wpm was a snap. They sent tube tables as "pseudo-groups" and text
from QST consisting of whole words starting at the left-hand side of the
line and going backwards to avoid "copying ahead". It worked!
Great days those were.
Amen, brother.
73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402
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