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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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