"Dick Carroll" wrote:

No, Dwight, it was not all monitored by computers. In
fact computers were scarce as midnight sunshine in the
60's. I KNOW some people quite well who were both
operating CW in the military and others who spent
their entire enlistment copying it on HF with headsets.


It was where my father worked. We lived right next to the facility and his
job just about every night was to go and get those computers (or radios)
going again whenever they stopped working. He had a terminal right in the
bedroom to monitor it all. Again, this was in the mid-60's (1964 and 1965).
I even went into the facility several times and there was only four or five
guys working there (and none of them had headsets on whenever I went in). I
remember the smell of electronics was strong enough to leave me gasping for
air.


Dwight Stewart (W5NET)

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