"JAMES HAMPTON" wrote

Some folks I'm reading in the thread might have preferred the method in RMA
school. You *will* copy 16 words per minute before you graduate. You
*will* graduate in (was it 8 weeks? I forget). Or else.

Never had the pleasure of RMA school. Although I was a ham, out of boot camp
they sent me to RDA school at GLakes. Reported aboard my first tin-can as an
RDSN on a Saturday. On Monday AM the PN's checked me in and introducted me to
the Ops Boss who saw I was a ham. Turned out they had a surplus of scope dopes,
but needed some RM's in the worst way, so he "temporarily" assigned me to OC
instead of OI division. Thus ended my short career as an RD and started my
career as an RM. Years later BuPers still had canniptions about my gundecked
rate change.


After leaving the service, I was working at Kodak and took a part time job
at WADD in Brockport, NY, a small am radio station. I was in a rush and
ripped copy from the teletype. The guy breaking me in was watching over my
shoulder as I started the news. LOL ... right in the middle of one article
the teletype took a hit and shifted out of letters and into gibberish.

Worse than that were the model-28s whose stunt box inadvertently had the
"unshift-on-space" toggled on. Then get a 4-section logreq which is 85%
numerals and have to mentally bit-shift that summabitch back to figs so the SK's
could read it!

73, de Hans, K0HB