[CQ-Contest] SO3R? try S06R!!!

mike l dormann w7dra at juno.com
Fri Apr 9 23:17:33 EDT 2004


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 at 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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