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Books by Jim Farrior
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free computer program written by me that teaches both American
and International Morse Code. It has been popular for a number of
years among those having an interest in land line telegraphy, point to
point and marine radio telegraphy, and amateur radio, at all levels of
proficiency from learners to retired professional
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Over the past several years, I have
written as a hobby several books intended primarily for family and
friends. They were written and illustrated using old photos,
notes, manuscripts, diaries, correspondence, and various other personal
records. Some
copies were printed, hard bound, and distributed among friends and
family, and their comments have been rewarding. These books are now
available as free downloads.
If you don't have MS-WORD you can
download the free MS-WORD Viewer from the MicroSoft Download
Page. The installation file to be downloaded is
mdviewer.exe (11.7 mb).
In any case, you should have the MSWORD viewer in your
computer. To download the viewer, click on the following download
link:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/browse.aspx?displaylang=en&productID=922C5574-5508-43FC-9C90-141AA3DEB153
Each book download file below is a
self-extracting zipped
file that contains the
MS-WORD file. The illustrations are inserted in the file, and the
file is suitable for printing or for viewing on the monitor.
Download the download file to a download folder, and click on it when
ready to install.
If you download any of these books, I would
appreciate your comments.
I am especially interested in knowing of any factual errors,
typos, or other proofing errors so they can be corrected.
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The photos shown
below are from the books.
ITEM
1: "C.C.C. and Radio Telegraph Experiences"
The above title is actually a short title for: "My Experiences in the
Civilian Conservation Corps, and How I Learned Telegraphy and Became a
Radio Amateur". This file is a modified and more carefully edited
and proofed version of the file that was previously available as a
download.
The book download link is located after the illustrations.
CCC boys in civilian
clothes at Valley Creek State
Park,
near Selma,
Ala.,
waiting for a ride to Selma for recreation.
This
1939 photo shows me using a "bug" telegraph key to send a message at
WUMA,
the Net
Control Station at the District "D" Civilian Conservation
Corps Headquarters,
Ft.
McClellan, Alabama, where I was the Chief Operator.
My first Amateur Radio
Station (1938) -- The
three tube National SW-3 regenerative receiver and operating
desk. Not CW signal can sound better that one received on a
regenerative set. At the top of the photo can be seen the edge of the
shelf that held the five tube home-built
transmitter shown in the following photo. I still have the
McElroy
semi-automatic
key and the solid brass hand key to the left of it..
My first Amateur Radio
Station designed and built by me in late 1938 after leaving the
C.C.C. in order to enter the 12th grade of high school. -- The
one-tube (6L6G) CW transmitter was built
using junk radio parts inside an ancient broadcast radio case. It used
an 80 meter crystal and would transmit on 80 or 40 meters. The
antenna was an off-center fed Hertz that worked well on both bands.
The transmitter rests on a shelf above the operating desk. There was no
meter, and the item at the right of the left hand knob is a small pilot
bulb that indicated the current through the feeder. The same antenna
was used for sending and antenna switching was done by a manually
operated blade switch. Good signal reports were received, and at
that time there
were plenty of good CW operators to
work.
The photo
below shows me at my amateur radio station, W4FOK . It was taken in
April, 2008, approximately 70 years after the above photos.
My latest Amateur Radio Station ( May 2008) -- On the top
shelf is my old Hallicrafters
S20R Sky Champion receiver purchased in 1940. It still
works, but is kept for sentimental reasons. Underneath
it is the Ten-Tec Century 22 transceiver that I took each summer for a
number of years to archaeological digs in the jungles of
Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras.
On the lowest shelf is my
old Ten-Tec Omni transceiver with an external Oscillator, Power Supply,
and Antenna
tuner,.
all bought in 1980 when I
retired. They still work like a charm.
One of my proudest
moments as a radio amateur was shortly after getting
my Ten-Tec rig on the
air, and I was inducted into the Chicken Fat Operators Club as
CFO
No. 431 after an extended CW keyboard QSO at 45 + wpm with Jim
Ricks (W9TO), of TO Keyer fame. Jim also designed the Hallicrafters TTO
keyer, and one of the first CW keyboards.
At the right end of the middle
shelf is a Morse telegraph sounder
in a resonator. The small unit at the left of the
Hallicrafters is a converter
that I designed and built that will activate the sounder
from
a tone
signal from the receiver, a
code practice
oscillator, or from the tape deck located underneath
the
converter.
The
bug on the table is the same old Mc Elroy that is shown in the previous
photo taken in 1938.
Not included in the above file is a copy of "The
Amplifier", a bulletin issued by the Net Control Station of District H,
C.C.C., Ft. Benning, Ga., where I served as the Chief Operator of
the Net Control Station WUGA . The following download is the
April, 1938, issue of that bulletin. This is the only issue known
to exist, and I have prepared an Intrduction that will serve as
background and will tell about the amazing way this issue was
discovered on a Swedish Web Site.
Clink on the link below:
Download file "The
Amplifier" (1.781 mb)
ITEM 2: "An Alabama River
Adventure"
Guy Coleman and I (left) repair the old paddle boat used
on
the trip.
This well illustrated book describes a 14 day
trip in 1940 that a
boyhood friend, Guy Coleman, and I made down the Alabama River in a
small paddle boat. This book is dedicated to Guy, who died in
action during WW-II when his ship was attacked by a German
submarine. The trip began at Benton, below Montgomery,
and ended at Mobile. We usually traveled day and night, and endured
many hardships, and experienced many
exciting, sometimes dangerous, events. This was long before there
were any dams and locks on the Alabama river, and the river was then in
a wild, pristine state. During the trip we had only an Alabama
Road Map, which showed no detail of the river. For tracking the
trip, this book uses
sections of an old Alabama River
Navigation Map
recently found on the Internet, and used with permission from the
Alabama Department of Archives and History. Essentially no
changes occurred
in the river between 1920, the date of the map, and 1940. The majority
of the illustrations are photos taken at the time using my
Kodak 120 box camera.
Download file: "ala.river.adventure.27feb05.exe " (3.349 mb)
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ITEM
3: "My WW-II Experiences"
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (not shown) review a
group of CTC members
at Bournemouth, Hampshire, England, 21 Oct. 1941. I was present
in the second row.
Castletown
Inner Harbor, Isle of Man, on a dull day. I served as a technician
at the nearby RAF Scarlet Point CH Radar Station from January 1942 to
May
1943.
The Liberty
Ship S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien, above, is
identical to the S.S. John Chandler and
the
S.S. Anthony Revalli on which
I served as Chief Radio Officer. The O'Brien was
the only Liberty Ship left of the 2,751 built during
WW-II that could make open sea voyages.
She is shown in
a Royal Air Force photo taken in the English
Channel during her visit to
the
D-Day
ceremony in France in 1994. She is berthed in
California.
This photo shows me, age 74, in the
radio
room of the Liberty Ship S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien on
24
August 1994, in Jacksonville, Fla., when she was returning
from her visit to the D-Day
ceremony in
France. This photo was taken by my daughter, Sue Harden.
This
well illustrated book was originally
written to document my
wartime experiences in the U.K. while serving in the Civilian Technical
Corps (CTC). That began before the U.S. entered the war.
The original version has been expanded to include my wartime
experiences in the
American Merchant Marine, which I joined in London in mid 1943.
Download file: "ww-ii.experiences.24june05.exe" (4.860 mb)
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ITEM
4: "Old Farrior Related Photos"
I proudly present my grandfather,
James "Jim" Spurlock Farrior Sr.
(1847-1903),
a decorated Confederate soldier of Co. B, 63rd Alabama Regiment,
Infantry.
This book is a compendium of old Farrior
related photos, most of which
were collected over a period of many years from family members. Some of
these photos are tin-types. Each photo is on a separate page with an
identification of the depicted person(s). Genealogical information is
also included to show the family relationships. These families came to
Alabama in the early 1830s, and settled in Pike County (now in Bullock)
in and around the small communities of Shopton and Fitzpatrick. Many
descendants remained in that general area (Bullock, Montgomery, Butler,
and Lowndes counties) for several generations, and some descendants
still live there. Most people who are interested in old photos or
genealogy should find this book to be interesting.
Download file: "old.farrior.related.photos.22june05.exe " (3.485
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