Subj : Re: How do you study for extra?
To   : Nigel Reed
From : Ed Vance
Date : Tue Mar 26 2024 07:53 pm

The DX40 is a kit, I built it.
IIRC Heathkit sent me a new Coil, I had the local store replace it and do an
alignment so I wouldn't get another OO Report in the mail.

Morse Code took a little learning for me.
The friend at Junior High School who showed me his Hallicrafter S38-D rx later
became our neighborhood Paper Boy.

He was in the Eighth Grade, I was in the Seventh Grade.
His first year of High School he took electronics class and met a guy who had a
Novice Call.
In the class he built a 75 watt CW TX that he showed me during summer vacation.

He got a Novice license that summer.
Often I walked with him as he delivered newspapers and talked about electronics
in general.
One afternoon his Ham friend from High School was walking with us.
Those two guys started saying things to each other in Morse Code and I didn't
know if I was the subject under discussion so I visited the local Library
Branch, looked through the Card Index for a book to help me learn CW.
The book I found was over in the Adult Section, the Librarian let me go there
to see the book, and let me Check It Out.
It was a Army Training Manual called: "A Menomic Manual for memorizing the
International Morse Code".

One help in the book that I always remembered is for the letter P.
PAN  P = AN. 
.. - - .  =  . -    +  -.
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