[TenTec] unsuscribe

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: Curt Gamble <W0ALC at Mindspring.Com> 
Date: Monday, January 15, 2007 7:31 am 
Subject: Re: [TenTec] code speed 
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec at 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 at 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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