Good thought! I passed the 13 WPM long ago but usually only use CW on
Straight Key Night, December 31st. Maybe I will try to practice on a couple
of CW nets. Part of the emplant is disconnected so I have to wait 3 more
months to have it replaced as original site has to recover.
73:
Bob
EchoLink Node - 55127
Please visit http://www.wan-leatonks.net.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Malmgren" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 12:00 AM
Subject: Fw: I feel absolutely hopeless about hf, thinking of just letting
my license, go
> Bob, I hope you can use C W. In my opinion it is much more satisfying
> than
> fone operation. Have a nice day and 73.
> Ed K7UC
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Bob Martin" <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 8:38 PM
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: I feel absolutely hopeless about hf, thinking of just letting
> my license, go
>
>> Hi, Trippy:
>>
>> I hope someone in our group can find words to make you feel better. I no
>> longer enjoy HF due to loss of most of my hearing following cancer
>> surgery
>> and treatment. I have a BAHA emplant but it can not process SSB. Got
>> ticket in 1977. Hope you feel better soon and in spite of current
>> situation, you had many happy funn filled days on the bands.
>>
>> 73:
>> Bob Martin
>> KC3FI
>>
>> EchoLink Node - 55127
>> Please visit http://www.wan-leatonks.net.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Harry Brown" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 10:00 PM
>> Subject: I feel absolutely hopeless about hf, thinking of just letting my
>> license, go
>>
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> Well, the subject line says alot of it.
>>> Folks, where do I start?
>>> I have been a ham for 35 years, and I now live in an apartment, which is
>>> =
>>> all concrete and steel.
>>> Here's what I've done so far.
>>> I've tryed isopoles antennas, I've tryed dipoles, I've tryed moble =
>>> antennas.
>>> Tonight, I tryed putting up the trap 80 40 dipole antenna.
>>> Receives great on 40, and especially, on 20!
>>> What no matter what antenna I use, no matter which antenna, all I get on
>>> =
>>> my kenwood 570 is the cw that says swr.
>>> So, I'm screwed.
>>> I've spent hundreds of dollars on different antennas, and what a waste =
>>> of money!
>>> I even use the kt1 auto tuner and hooked up a piece of copper wire, and
>>> =
>>> just threw it over the balcony railing!
>>> All I can say is, who cares any more.
>>> If I would have known 35 years ago, this is what my hobby would become,
>>> =
>>> I probably might not have got my license.
>>> I can't use the handiham w0eqo or w0zsw hf remote base, because I have =
>>> it and everything I need to log in, and Joe, n3ain tryed to help me with
>>> =
>>> it, and nothing.
>>> Then, when I finally was able to log in, no key strokes would work.
>>> My friend, has an echo link software on his computer, and there is an hf
>>> =
>>> remote base on echo link, kb8zgl, but when we try to connect to it, we =
>>> get the ID, but nothing else, no audio from hf at all.
>>> I hope those of you who do have hf enjoy it for me, and enjoy it, =
>>> because there might come a time, where you will live somewhere like I =
>>> do.
>>> It might sound like I'm complaining, and maybe, I am, but more and more
>>> =
>>> hams like me now, and more and more, as we all get older, will.
>>> I miss being able to get on hf any time, just like I could in the late =
>>> 70s, with my good old hw101, which would work with any, and I mean any =
>>> antenna, and it didn't care what the swr was
>>> 73,
>>> Trippy, ac8s
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