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

Roger zrdc28 at yahoo.com
Sat Jan 26 10:21:37 EST 2008


I sure would like a copy if you don't mind.
KO4O
zrdc28 at yahoo.com


--- radiobehar at earthlink.net wrote:

> Please foward to me, as well.
> 
> tnx es vy 73,
> de WM1O
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Louis Ciotti <lciotti at twcny.rr.com>
> >Sent: Jan 25, 2008 6:52 PM
> >To: 'Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment'
> <tentec at 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 at contesting.com
> [mailto:tentec-bounces at 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 at arrl.net
> >
> >Ronald C. McConnell, PhD
> >
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> >
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> >They just have trouble unlearning old ones.
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> >
> >
> >
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