Can someone please unsuscribe me?
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----- Original Message -----
From: Curt Gamble <W0ALC@Mindspring.Com>
Date: Monday, January 15, 2007 7:31 am
Subject: Re: [TenTec] code speed
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
> W8AU,
>
> Well we had CT's (communication technicians) then whose sole
> purpose was
> to monitor all circuits
> including ours so think that was kept in check. I know one of
> those CT
> types as he is a good ham
> friend in AZ. I am sure some stuff might have gone on briefly but
> busting rank tends to stop it.
>
> While the shoulder patch for Navy radioman looks the same I think
> radioman are now called
> communication technicians or something like that. Last year in
> Dayton I
> talked with one
> at the MARS booth
>
> When I finally received my 160M WAS award back in Ohio in early
> 1970's
> (as K8IBQ)
> I recall that my Kentucky contact was K4FU. It is funny how one
> remembers certain things.
>
> A ham friend of mine, Jim and I were both in the same high school
> English class and during a test
> (multiple guess) Jim started tapping out with a pencil a query to
> one
> question in the multiple
> guess test. Pretty soon a 3rd pencil started tapping out "this
> will
> not work". We both
> darn near died and the teacher was in hysterics laughing at us.
> The
> rest of the class was
> clueless. This great English teacher still communicates via email
> as
> does the ham friend. Yes! he
> was on of those WW2 Army Signal Corps CW guys. We tell this story
> over
> and over at each reunion.
> 73, Curt WØALC in Western CO
> at
> minus 2.5 deg
>
> w8au@sssnet.com wrote:
>
> >At 06:28 PM 1/14/07, Curt Gamble wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Another funny incident on a Navy practice cw circuit in Norfolk
> in mid
> >>60's some operator sent the following.
> >>"Mississippi sissies are sissier than Tennessee sissies" as fast as
> >>possible. They called all the logs in so they could
> >>figure who sent it and this individual got a few demerits on that
> >>one.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >An associate of mine who was an Army radio op during WW2 said
> that
> >they occasionally signed off with "4Q." To which the other op
> would
> >reply "4Q2." This upset the monitors who sent messages to all
> >commands to cease this activity. :-)
> >
> >I don't recall ever hearing that the Navy ops did this...
> Either
> >the Army ops were cruder, or the Navy ops weren't as creative...
> :-)
> >
> >w8au
> >
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