Hello Listers,
I think Phil from Denver has started a most wonderful discussion so here goes two of my favorite memories.

First one is a CW one.

I was listening to CW on 10 meters during the 80s. I had a vertical antenna for ten meters on my apartment balcony in Philadelphia.

I heard this guy calling cq.

He happened to be a ham from Czechoslovakia.

Poor guy kept trying to spell the name of his country and couldn't seem to get it right.

I ultimately made contact with him but I was laughing so hard I could hardly send code properly.

My other memory was of ten meters FM a portion of the band I love.

It was way open in the mid 80's.

I remember working through a repeater in Boston, one in the Virgin Islands and one really loud one in Colorado.

But my best thrill was working a guy from England on a Christmas day on a ten meter simplex frequency.

Best 73's,

Eric
KU3I