[Elecraft] Whaddayaknow... passed the Extra

[Kevin Rock]

I am glad this story had a happy ending!  CW is just so much fun I think this person will indeed enjoy it, maybe even more than others who learned the code more easily.  

When I started the Elecraft CW Net I was very much a beginner.  However I ignored the fact that I was as unskilled as I was.  I learned ;)  I also got better; somewhat incrementally.  Please remember that we do slow down to whatever speed necessary to make a contact.  Just toss out your call at the ? K and we will respond at the speed you sent it.  Tom's style varies from mine but he slows just as rapidly and is as happy to meet a new CW operator as I am.  

CW - the original digital mode.
   73,
      Kevin.  KD5ONS



-----Original Message-----
>From: Jim <jamesgood at charter.net>
>Sent: Mar 9, 2009 8:11 PM
>To: "Elecraft at mailman.qth.net" <Elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
>Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Whaddayaknow... passed the Extra
>
>All of this reminds me of one applicant for his amateur license a few years back, a little before the FCC eliminated the CW requirement.  He did pass the Technician test with no problem and could use that license.  He then took and passed the General and the Extra tests.  Both of those he passed.  He still needed the CW element.  He would show up at the test session I helped with each month and try at least three or four times before going home to study some more.  The last time he came to the session, he said that he really had to pass the CW at that session because his 365 day window would expire on Saturday (the test session was on Thursday).  An hour later the VE that administered the CW part of the tests came back in with the new operator and said that we had a new Extra.
>
>73,
>Jim KD5VXH