Hi Ed,

I had the same experience, except instead of six months, it took me about six hours. I like to say that I love cw, in spite of my best efforts to hate it. And I really did try to hate it. Much. Silly, perhaps, but when you're 14, you do silly things. 
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Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY



On Jun 10, 2010, at 10:06 PM, Ed Malmgren wrote:

> Gerry and Steve, when I got my ticket way back just before dirt was invented 
> to get the ticket of coarse I had to pass the code.  I said to myself when I 
> get that general ticket I was throwing my key in the garbage.  I got on 
> phone for about six months and then got so bored with that I dug the key out 
> of file 13 and went back to c w and for the most part I have stayed and if I 
> had to give up either mode it would be phone in a heartbeat. The more 
> proficient you get the more you enjoy it like most things I think.  73 Ed 
> K7UC