Ah that's cool. I love operating code as well. Maybe we'll have to pick a
frequency and try a QSO sometime.
-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Buddy Brannan
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 11:20
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: hf and code
I'm almost exclusively code and love it! The thing is, sometimes I go for
months and months (sometimes a year!) without any hf, because I hadn't got
an antenna up. *LOL* But wow is it ever fun. And for me, code is very
therapeutic and relaxing in a way that not many other things are. I know,
some people probably think that this is probably one of the strangest things
they've ever heard of, but it's true...and has been for ages. (I mean,
besides being completely silent with headphones, which means I can operate
and not bother anyone if I like.)
I've said several times that I love code in spite of my best efforts to hate
it. Some people may think that that's an odd statement, too.
When I got my license in 1987, i was 14. I thought the code would be hard to
learn, but it wasn't. When I got my novice, I said, "Oh! I can do 10 meter
phone!" But once I got more antennas, I found myself on 15-meter cw! When I
got my general, I said, "Oh! I can do 20 meter phone!" And guess where I was
only five hours later? 20 meter cw! I couldn't believe it! Why was I so
drawn to cw? All I could think of was operating phone, but all I found
myself operating, mostly, was cw! It was fun, it was exciting, it required a
skill that not everyone had, I didn't feel like a fool shouting "Lima
victor!" into a microphone trying to get through a dx pileup full of rude
jerks.
What's not to like? Indeed, what's not to absolutely adore?! I can do cw for
hours and hours. I can do phone for. ... Uh. Not hours and hours, for the
most part, unless I manage to find an interesting net or more interesting
ragchew. Certainly not a contest (of any sort, any mode, except field day
maybe).
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