Nice going.
That's what the hobby is all about.
Enjoy
Anthony
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lou Kolb" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 2:38 PM
Subject: Re: [BLIND-HAMS] hf and code
>I became active again in the summer of 02 and, having a viable sideband
> station for perhaps the first time in my ham career, I worked exclusively
> phone until this past fall. I finally got around to trying CW again in
> November ans, since then, I have worked twice as much CW as phone. I got
> a
> keyboard keyer, am up to 40 wpm and am having probably the most fun with
> ham
> radio in 37 years. Many folks have found the fear of CW to be much worse
> than the doing. Lou.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Buddy Brannan" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 11:19 AM
> 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).
>>
>> --
>> Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV : Executive In Training! Watkins Manager #361534
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