[CW] RE: [dx-list] Fw: [geratol] (unknown)

Tue, 07 May 2002 08:09:40 -0400

Thats sad.  Missing all the real fun of ham radio.  Reminds me of the day I happened to be at the embassy in Athens, and our relay site was hit by lightening and knocked off the air.  I brought up my 1 kw transmitter in cw to stand by and let the rest of the world know about the problem, and then couldnt find a cw key.  ( I was there on temporary duty- from the base station).  There were no cw ops at the embassy on a regular basis.  I wound up using a pair of wires, one in each hand, touching them together to send code and let the network know to standby.

"K�HB" <[email protected]> wrote:

>OK guys, I couldn't have made this up. �I forward it without comment.
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>73, de Hans, K0HB
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>To: [email protected] ; [email protected] ; [email protected] ; [email protected] ; [email protected] ; [email protected] 
>Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 4:11 AM
>Subject: [geratol] (unknown)
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>Man what fun Ham Radio is. Keep in mind I haven't even listened to CW for
>over 7 years. K1B was on 28.020 with nobody coming back to his CQ's, so I
>dug out a straight key I had around here for some reason, grabbed my
>electric guitar cord (for the 1/4 plug) and 2 alligator clipped jumpers
>and tried to send out my call sign. DA..... what's an "A"? I finally got
>a AC6WD sent out (I think). What was that he sent back? Da....... what's
>a 559? Got that sent out. (I think) Did I work him? Who knows! Who cares!
>It was challenging though. I'll have to wait now for all of the logs to
>be downloaded to the Web site to find out. 
>I NEED A RIGBLASTER!
>Rick
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