Another Truck Radio Question

Knew an interceptor op, copying 5 letter blocks for the military. Went to take his 20 WPM test and failed Went home and brought back a typewriter and passed no problem.

Another ham, VE1GUN SK could work two stations at the same time running about 50WPM each, while he sat back sucking on his pipe, Jerry passed away from parkinsons.

Don't know if it is official policy or not, but I think you guys are expected to speak English on this forum.

Bill, That is too funny! I was thinking the same thing reading through this thread. I have no #^@#!*& idea what they are saying, but I can't stop myself from READING IT!

Knew an interceptor op, copying 5 letter blocks for the military. Went to take his 20 WPM test and failed Went home and brought back a typewriter and passed no problem.

Another ham, VE1GUN SK could work two stations at the same time running about 50WPM each, while he sat back sucking on his pipe, Jerry passed away from parkinsons.

Some guys just had a natural talent for it. Mixed letters, numbers, special characters, didn't matter. If I had to hand copy I don't know how well I'd do. Give me a manual typewriter or a teletype and I would just get into a rhythm. Most of our targets would just call outstations to control for comms continuity. Sometimes they would send long messages one at a time. Sometimes they'd bicker back and forth. That would be fun.

They never seemed to realize the longer they'd transmit the more / better we could identify who they were down to the transmitter they were using. :)

Know a ham who quit driving truck about 15 yrs ago, who run Morse with a key strapped to his leg. It is an interesting hobby, and such a wide area of interests, with all the different bands and modes.