Just wanted to echo Dale's comments. It was a great
surprise to hear the show come on as I was doing the
evening commute. It was a very pleasant piece about
the nostalgia of morse code, and the good old days of
less hi-tech communication.
I didn't quite catch his name, but I think the upshot
was that one of the producers at NPR is a ham and he
was reminiscing about his childhood listening to his
dad's ham activities and learning the code himself.
And that cw had a universal language that allowed hams
all over the world to have a conversation even if they
didn't speak the same language (a form of esperanto).
They even ended the piece by wishing everyone 73!
And with that, my 73
Barry N1EU
--- "Dale L. Martin" <kg5u@hal-pc.org> wrote:
>
> Forgive the bandwidth and off-topic subject, but
> this benefits
> all hams.
>
> This afternoon at approximately, 2250Z, National
> Public Radio's
> program, All Things Considered, ran their regular
> Friday Lost &
> Found Sound segment in the last ten minutes of their
> program.
> This weeks edition was about Morse Code and ham
> radio. It's not
> often ham radio gets a nice portrayal in other but
> emergency
> situations. This program did a good job.
>
> If you can pick up National Public Radio this
> afternoon, do so
> and listen for the program.
>
> If NPR's ATC has already aired, check this url
> tomorrow and see
> if they have posted the Real Audio version of the
> program.
>
>
http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/archives/1999/990423.atc.html
>
> The last entry is the above url with the 990423
> actually 990422.
> I changed it to 990423 for you to try to use
> tomorrow to check
> for today's program.
>
> 73,
> Dale Martin, KG5U
> kg5u@hal-pc.org
> http://www.hal-pc.org/~kg5u
>
>
>
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