Phil
Odd that you should put out this message as, today, I put out a CQ on 40M
using my 1911 Vibraplex key.
The guy who came back to me, also with a bug, living in Belgium ( only about
60 miles from here, and also using a bug.
It transpired that he is 83 and his timing was superb still, having trained
in the ON navy.
73
David W Wood
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On Behalf Of Phil Scovell
Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2015 9:51 PM
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Subject: Old CW
I was tuning around during the middle of the day on 20 CW a couple of weeks
ago when I found a lone QSO in progress. Q5 signals on both but not more
than S5 or S6 I would say. The first guy was sending along at about 25 WPM
and after awhile, it dawned on me, the guy was using a freaking hand key.
Man, was he good, too. But that isn't what blew me away. He told the other
guy he was 96 years old. I thought I had mis copied so I listened to the
other guy to be sure and he indeed commented by saying, "Boy, I hope I live
to be 96." Far out, as we used to say in the late sixties, or as farmers
back in Iowa and Nebraska say, Farm out.
Phil.
K0NX
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