[Jamestown1630]

No more Morse required.

[WhoisAlanGreenspan?]

My Dad was big time into armature radio. I wound up being involved as well. He was the newsletter publisher for the local club for years, and I was his ghost writer (he wasn't a computer guy at all). I went to meetings helped pull down antennas and put them back up somewhere else, it was a great bunch of people but I never got a license myself.

I still have, I think a 2 meter battery powered hand held radio he gave me, but I haven't powered it up in years. Good for storm chasing. Maybe I'll monkey around with that this summer.

[Saintgermain]

That is a shame as this was and still is part of the fun. I was a ham for just about fifty years and due to my handicaps and age haven’t been active in the past few years. I remember copying code at the beginning printing all letters. Eventually when I wanted my extra class of course this was no longer possible as it was not fast enough and had to switch over to longhand, but it was worth it. At he time I passed my advanced at the Dirksen building in Chicago and my extra in Rock Island Il.

One of the most exciting events was, while on the road to the QC’s (Quad Cities) it was a beautiful summer afternoon, at the time I had a 2 meter home brew quad on the roof of my car and was listening around 144 MHZ side band and heard a station from Texas loud and clear I came back but no luck as it had disappeared. Normally this isn’t done unless there are some inversions and ducting effects between hot and cold layers of air, but in any case it made my days. 73’s

[Vaduz]

It should be it’s still useful.