[Fists] Happy New Year

[Dan KB6NU]

Happy New Year, ladies and gentlemen.

I don't normally make New Year's resolutions, nor do I suggest that  
others make them, but with the imminent change in licensing  
requirements (i.e. the elimination of the Morse Code test), here's  
one suggestion that I will make. I would like to suggest that every  
Fist member find a ham in their club or community with even a remote  
interest in CW and Elmer him or her, the goal being to make him or  
her into a proficient, active CW operator by the end of the year.

If you can't find anyone right off, don't get discouraged. Talk up CW  
at club meetings, rig up your 2m FM rig to send modulated CW over  
your repeater, invite people over to your house to watch you work CW.  
Do these things consistently and pretty soon someone will come out of  
the woodwork. You gotta work at it, but in the end, we'll have more  
active CW bands and better operators, and isn't that a worthwhile goal?

73!

Dan KB6NU
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CW Geek: Fists #9342, FP #1171
Affiliated Club Coordinator, MI Section
Read my ham radio blog at www.kb6nu.com