In article , Dick Carroll
writes:

when I finished electronics training, the
Signal School kept me there as permanent party, to work as a broadcast
engineer at the educational TV station ran by the school. A most
interesting
and challenging assignment, indeed.

Indeed. Typical duty given to sycophant students.

Hmmm.. well I *did* graduate within a fraction of a point of the top score in
the class,
though that score wan't mine. It went to a fella who had already completed
over half of a
college EE program. Instructors do like to see their students do well. If
that makes me a
"synchophant", whatever you think that is, guess all I can do is agree.

Must have been a new policy at Fort Monmouth to rate "students" by
"points."

Those of us in Basic Radar and Microwave Radio Relay MOS classes
got a very binary "sco" Pass or Fail. [Fail score was off to the
infantry or other wonderful cannon fodder duties]

That was in 1952 when the Korean War was still on.

Must have gotten very quiet after 1953 and the Truce started.


I would have been completely happy to have
stayed there for the remainder of my term of service, but my name came up
for an
overseas tour of duty rotation, so off to Europe I went after a year and
a half.

I thought you were sending CW as the ChiComs were overrunning your
position?

Brian, we already told you- think is dangerous to your mental health.
Evidently it overly strains your faculties.

DICK, you seem to be shaking your "we-we" again.

Tsk, tsk.

I sure do feel for poor ol' Lennie, tho, he must have had a rough go of
it 'way
out there in the JA boondocks with nothing to do but listen to the
transformers
hum and wait for another overload. And I hear those BC610's didn't
overload all
that often, either. Tsk, tsk.

Yet all that message traffic was sent w/o touching a Morse key.

But not by Lennie! The operating wasn't done at the transmitter site. He
sat and watched. Just like he -and you- are doing here.

DICK, I've already TOLD you what station ADA did. Try to remember it.

In 1953 through 1956, ADA *never* used any on-off keying codings.

ADA never had or used any "BC-610s" either...too low a power output
for reliable 24/7 trans-Pacific use.

ADA relayed 220 thousand TTY messages a month in 1955.

TTY, not morse. A half century ago.

Try not to equate the military or the rest of the world with the technical
competence of the Misery state police.

LHA