some great memories of the novice days. I used to work on 3.716 or 3.743 khz
with my dx100 which had a little chirp to it with cathode keying. i loved my
strait key back then hi. 73,
Barb [log in to unmask]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2001 12:27 AM
Subject: Rick Haner - The CW Man


> When I was working to become a novice, the older man who taught me
> everything from the code to the electronics, and who later helped me with
> antennas and rig repairs, referred to certain hams as, a good CW man.  I
> remember thinking, when I get my ticket, that's what I want to be called,
a
> good CW man.  Of course, all these older guys I knew and who taught me the
> hobby worked more phone than CW but that was the term they always used
among
> themselves when referring to someone who really liked CW and worked it a
> lot.  Rick was a CW man, that's for sure.  Rick taught me early on, 35
years
> ago, that CW can be a lot of fun.  Rick could make an electric keyer sing
> and make it sound easy at 45 words per minute and I know he could copy
more
> than that and this back before keyboard CW was even considered as a
> possibility.  That first time I worked him in the 80 meter novice band, I
> was running a ranger 1 and a bc348 receiver and a simple inverted v at 30
> feet.   He quickly slowed down to my 20 or 25 words per minutes, and so
did
> his friend that night, and I felt like a million dollars as I later
bragged
> to my buddies about how I worked this blind guy in Michigan who could copy
> CW so fast, I said, you can't even tell what the letters are, haw.  I sure
> hope we can carry on that old CW tradition among us but I fear it is
slowly
> passing away with the death of another good CW man.  Of course, it isn't
the
> CW itself that makes the man good, or better, than anybody else but the
art
> of CW contacts and the fun they bring are surely passing away little by
> little.  I wouldn't trade my novice rock bound days away for anything.  I
> just wish I would have kept my Braille log of all those old novice
contacts
> to now read and to think upon just for fun.
>
> Phil.
> k0nx
>
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