what about the south sea islanders during WWII who were taught "this
sound goes with that mill key" they reportedly could copy perfect press
while maintaining a conversation in their own language for hours at a
time?
mike w7dra
got to hit the sack, JIDX tonight
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004 18:34:59 -0400 "K3FT" <k3ft@starpower.net> writes:
> Not to bust anyone's bubble.. but when I operated as a commercial
> Marine CW
> operator at a Maryland Coast station WMH, I stood sole man watches.
>
> It was normal to have to monitor multiple radios on multiple bands
> simultaneously AND while working a ship with traffic to also have to
> keep an
> ear on the remaining receivers in case anyone called while I was
> working
> traffic. They had 500 kHz, 6/8/12/16/22 MHz. running at the same
> time.
>
> So I did SO6R! <big grin!>
>
> (and we won't count having the listenfor the telephones, telex, and
> TWX)
>
> Those were the REALLY fun days. I miss them!
>
> 73
> K3FT
>
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