Please foward to me, as well.
tnx es vy 73,
de WM1O
-----Original Message-----
>From: Louis Ciotti <lciotti@twcny.rr.com>
>Sent: Jan 25, 2008 6:52 PM
>To: 'Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment' <tentec@contesting.com>
>Subject: Re: [TenTec] S. F. B. Morse III, W6FZZ on CW speed
>
>Yes Forward it along to me....
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com]
>On Behalf Of Ronald C. McConnell
>Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 10:37 PM
>To: Ten-Tec list
>Cc: Ron McConnell
>Subject: [TenTec] S. F. B. Morse III, W6FZZ on CW speed
>
>
>S. F. B. Morse III, W6FZZ on CW speed
>
>Friday, November 30, 2007 2:14 PM,
>on the Ten-Tec list, I wrote,
>
>> FYI, Samuel F. B. Morse III, W6FZZ,
>> SFBM's grandson (not great- or great-great-grandson)
>> was a FB Morse code champion at both the American Morse
>> (actually Vail) and International codes at about 75 wpm.
>> I see on QRZ.com that his license was renewed in June 1996
>> and expired June 2006. There was
>> some sort of update to the QRZ page in March 2006.
>> It shows an email address. But he must be a SK by now.
>> _Somewhere_safe_ I have a handwritten letter
>> by SFBM III giving some tips on achieving speed
>>at Morse Code. It was sent to a mutual friend
>> [Gil Gray] who gave it to me.
>>Just gotta remember where "safe" is.
>
>Well, "safe" turned out to be in my folder
>of stuff about the APL-JHU's mobile automata
>(a.k.a. robots) on which I worked in the early 1960s.
>Why there?
>
>I have scanned the letter, 2 1/4 pages and the envelope,
>and run it through the OCR which worked remarkably well
>with only a few minor edits needed to restore
>the digital pages to agree with the paper versions.
>I've sent it to John Molenda, KB2HUK
>and Jim Hanlon, W8KGI
>who expressed interest in a copy.
>Jim mentioned putting it the Antique Wireless Assoc. Journal.
>Anyone else?
>
>Thetext file is 32KB in MS Word doc format.
>The jpeg image file of the envelope is 220KB
>and can no doubt be shrunk.
>The jpeg page images are 1.5MB, 1.8MB and 570KB,
>just FYI.
>
>Cheers, 73,
>
>Ron McC.
>W2IOL
>
>w2iol@arrl.net
>
>Ronald C. McConnell, PhD
>
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