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