[Lowfer] Chirped Hell QSO Tonight

[John RABSON]

Jay,

Rosy and I moved to France just under three years ago.  We expected to have two months to get ready for the move, but the lawyers managed to set things up so that we only had two weeks.  We arrived with 420 large cardboard boxes (many of them labelled just "John - radio") plus furniture.  I have just opened and dealt with the last of the boxes.

I have not been able to check out the caves around here as an old (non-cave related) back problem has recurred and my doctor has advised me to do nothing more ambitious than tourist caves.  Other matters have also got in the way.  

On the strength of my G call I was able to get a full F licence and, although one cannot officially reserve a particular call, I got the one I hoped for.  I have intermittently been on 40 m phone, and have been working towards being operational on 136kHz but when you emigrate* at our age all sorts of things take much longer than you expect.

Regards,
John F5VLF
* should I speak of moving to France as "emigration" nowadays?

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On 18/03/2008 at 07:39 jrusgrove at comcast.net wrote:

>John
>
>If I had extra time it would be interesting to try and develop the skill.
>I 
>noticed your callsign change to F a while ago. How do the caves in France 
>compare to UK?
>
>Jay
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "John RABSON" <john.rabson at wanadoo.fr>
>To: <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
>Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 5:25 AM
>Subject: Re: [Lowfer] Chirped Hell QSO Tonight
>
>
>On 17/03/2008 at 21:41 jrusgrove at comcast.net wrote:
>
>>Bob
>>
>>Funny you should mention it. I've been this HELL mode for about 4 or 5
>>months now and I can copy maybe a half dozen characters (other than the
>>simple ones like periods) by ear. My messages are similar from night to
>>night so I don't hear the whole alphabet on a regular basis. Given enough
>>time I think it might be possible...
>>
>>Jay
>
>When I used to tinker with RTTY, I could easily recognize the RYRYRY... 
>sequence.  There was also a rumour that some members of the Russian Hi
>Speed 
>Club could read RTTY by ear.
>
>73
>John F5VLF
>
>
>
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