[CW] I DID IT

Sun, 17 Aug 2003 17:01:16 -0500

Dang George,
I knew you were an OT, but you've been a ham
for 958 years??????

Just Kidding!

de W0TLO
John

On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 15:52:15 -0500 "George,  W5YR" <[email protected]> writes:
> You bring back memories of the hours I spent with my Johnson Speedex 
> hand
> key and homebrew audio oscillator sending along with W1AW. Took me 
> nearly a
> year, starting in mid-1045,  to get to 13 wpm both sending and 
> receiving,
> but got the Class B ticket the first time around!
> 
> Three months later - working nothing but 20 CW - I was doing 25-30 
> wpm with
> an ancient bug. Practice *does* make a difference!
> 
> 73/72, George
> Amateur Radio W5YR -  the Yellow Rose of Texas
> Fairview, TX 30 mi NE of Dallas in Collin county EM13QE
> "In the 57th year and it just keeps getting better!"
> <mailto:[email protected]>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David J. Ring, Jr." <[email protected]>
> To: "Tom Crawford" <[email protected]>; "CW" 
> <[email protected]>
> Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 3:44 PM
> Subject: Re: [CW] I DID IT
> 
> 
> > Congratulations Tom!
> >
> > I struggled with 4 words per minute for quite a while!
> >
> > The important thing many hams would like to express is that CW 
> gets much
> > much easier around 20 to 23 wpm, then it becomes a language about 
> 23 wpm.
> > It becomes a crazy melodic syncopated melody of meaning which 
> beats the
> > pants off of anything else we know.  It is so cool when you get up 
> to that
> > speed.
> >
> > But there are other joys - I loved learning to send on a hand key 
> at 5
> wpm -
> > I used to mimic W1AW (off the air!) with a code oscillator - I 
> sent right
> > along with the radio by reading my QST magazine!
> >
> > Have fun!  Work some of the old timers - there are guys alive that 
> used to
> > work SPARK.  Yes!  Go talk to some of them.
> >
> > 73
> > David Ring
> > N1EA
> 
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