Jean trivializes code by saying "you have arrived when you can send/receive 50 wpm..". To most of us who can send/receive 25 wpm stand in awe folks like Jean who could do that. He was a real pro and a marvelously excellent raconteur. Imagine keeping his radio audience enthralled with CW net procedures? Here he actually turns the net into an almost-human conversation instead of Morse code. Here Jean describes tropo[spheric] ducting on VHF -- which is actually a fact. Hams in Southern California have talked to hams in Honolulu only using their HTs (handy talkies). Occurs occasionally and is very eerie.
Back in the 60s when TV reception was only by an outside antenna and what you could pick up over the air ( Usually 5 or 6 channels at most), sometimes we would get a Spanish language swamping out the nearby Channel 3 station. Never got any picture other than a very very fuzzy one. We figured out it was from Cuba after a few times this happened which is a bit distant from North Georgia, USA.
Jean suggested learning code to his son Randy. Randy never learned, and Jean didn't have any interest in him after that. Jean split with a young blond just like his old man. Excelsior
This isn't the Code School story. The Code School story is about when he was in Radar and was somehow sent to Code School with a lot of other veteran operators.
Great memories of my early ham days, just like Jean's!!!!
Jean trivializes code by saying "you have arrived when you can send/receive 50 wpm..". To most of us who can send/receive 25 wpm stand in awe folks like Jean who could do that. He was a real pro and a marvelously excellent raconteur. Imagine keeping his radio audience enthralled with CW net procedures? Here he actually turns the net into an almost-human conversation instead of Morse code.
Here Jean describes tropo[spheric] ducting on VHF -- which is actually a fact. Hams in Southern California have talked to hams in Honolulu only using their HTs (handy talkies). Occurs occasionally and is very eerie.
Back in the 60s when TV reception was only by an outside antenna and what you could pick up over the air ( Usually 5 or 6 channels at most), sometimes we would get a Spanish language swamping out the nearby Channel 3 station. Never got any picture other than a very very fuzzy one. We figured out it was from Cuba after a few times this happened which is a bit distant from North Georgia, USA.
Enemy of the State had code when you saw the satellite. The code was CQ CQ CQ -- not likely what a satellite would transmit.
Jean suggested learning code to his son Randy. Randy never learned, and Jean didn't have any interest in him after that. Jean split with a young blond just like his old man. Excelsior
This isn't the Code School story. The Code School story is about when he was in Radar and was somehow sent to Code School with a lot of other veteran operators.
I'm looking for that episode too! If you find it, please point me to it.