NCRC held its May club meeting via Zoom last night.  Things went very well.  We had 48 people in attendance, which is a bit more than one of our traditional in-person meetings.  It was nice to see members in FLA (Pete W1LAB), PA (Bruce NJ3K), and NH (Art W1AGW) join in as well.  The business meeting ran just about an hour, including a long discussion of Field Day 2020, with two new members being voted into membership.  Congratulations:

• • • Paul Perrone, KB1QWY, South Kingstown
    • John Jackman, N1SMX, North Kingstown

After the meeting there was a 30 minute presentation on learning Morse Code given by Bob WB4SON.  The slides can be found here.

Perhaps the best part of the night was the 30 minutes that followed the presentation, with very lively conversation among the 40+ remaining members.  A good time was had by all.

Several folks offered up some interesting books on the history of Morse Code and telegraphy in general.  Thanks (Peter KQ1X and Bruce NJ3K) including these titles:

• “The Victorian Internet”, by Tom Standage in 1998 and 1999 the later is paperback
• “A Thread Across The Ocean”, by John Steele Gordon published in 2003
• “Signor Marconi’s Magic Box”, by Gavin Weighman Published in 2003
• “Engineers & Electrons A Century of the IEEE 1884-1984”, by John D. Ryder
• “Mr. Lincolns T-Mails”, by Tom Wheeler
• “The Telegraph in America”, by David Hochfelder