[TenTec] S. F. B. Morse III, W6FZZ on CW speed

[philip c anderson]

Yes Ron, 
I am interestd in a copy. Maybe help spark some interest in CW with a few of my friends.
 
Tnx  Andy, W3LI
> From: rcmcc at embarqmail.com> To: tentec at contesting.com> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:37:22 -0500> CC: rcmcc at embarqmail.com> 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 at arrl.net> > Ronald C. McConnell, PhD> > WGS-84: N 40º 46' 57.9" +/-0.1"> W 74º 41' 21.3" +/-0.1"> FN20ps.77GU96 +/-> V +5058 H +1504> > <http://home.earthlink.net/~rcmcc> > > > Old dogs can learn new tricks.> They just have trouble unlearning old ones.> - Robert J. Welborn > > > > _______________________________________________> TenTec mailing list> TenTec at contesting.com> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec
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