| Call | Name | Date Posted - Teaser |
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Pallett | Geoff | 2006-05-03 - When I announced to fellow (local ham club) members that I had no money and intended to learn Morse Code and homebrew like my uncle Graham I became a source of ridicule and laughter. They advised me to take a second mortgage or forget HF and buy a 2M hand-held which I did - it's less fun than CB! |
| AA0RQ | Bill | pre-2006 - I remember hearing my son say "I love you dad" via Morse code, the tears fell down my face. That was the most important QSO of my life. |
| AC4NW | Dick | pre-2006 - Whenever I heard Morse in the old war movies, I always wondered what they could be saying. One day I determined to find out.... |
| AL7N | Ed | pre-2006 - When I was a young feller, somehow I became interested in the Morse telegraph. I don't know rightly why, but something about those strange clicking devices down at the railroad depot caught my attention, and fascinated me from an early age. |
| DL4KE | Juergen | 2015-02-26 - ....age of 12, she came into the shack and learnd her name Eileen in cw. |
| HB9OX | Claude | pre-2006 - I have even made DX CW contacts VK /PY etc. using the SST 20 and a home made Whip antenna..... |
| JJ1BDX | Joe | pre-2006 - Eventually I realized some good-old warm-hearted people are the driving forces of those CW clubs......I could finally conclude that ham radio is a good social, if not technical, tradition, especially among CW enthusiasts. |
| K7RVX | Mike | pre-2006 - You're right about CW, John. It will get through when NOTHING else will, including all the wondrous digital modes like PSK-31. Guess who doesn't work PSK-31 any more? |
| K8MP | Joe | Nov 2008 - Just how did I learn to love the code? I don't know. I just did. I didn't have a choice. It was CW contacts or stay off the radio. The loving came with just doing it. If I had never been forced to learn and use the code, I would never have known what I was missing. |
| KB7MBI | Alan | pre-2006 - Just when you start to get a bit sidetracked with life's events you get a little reminder of what is important in life and ham radio......I had the pleasure of running into a gal that was in recovery from a recent brain surgery and had to relearn code and how to send. |
| KC2AFK | Dave | pre-2006 - My speed just would not go reliably beyond about 7wpm! Finally I told myself that this was crazy, I had invested serious time an a limited amount of money in getting that ticket and was not using it. So, I went and got on the air on the novice bands CW. Well, the code speed came right up..... |
| KC2OBS | Jane | 2006-06-06 - They told me that very few women were hams, and hardly any of them operated CW.....Right then, I decided that was my kind of challenge!..... |
| KC0IOX | Eric | pre-2006 - In looking at the history of amateur radio, I think the old 1 year non renewable Novice license was a stroke of genius. You had to use the code, and you got better. While I passed at 5 wpm, I wanted to work on my speed and be a CW op. |
| KD6YPU | Terry | pre-2006 - All those years of listening to my grandfather in the garage with his dits and dahs has caught up to me. All I want to do is communicate with Morse code. |
| KG4FXG | Bill | pre-2006 - I have several antennas in the attic, a 80 meter dipole, 40 meter dipole, and a Carolina Windom 80 shorty. They all work great. |
| KG8TH | Bob | pre-2006 - I sat down and put on that set of headphones and took about 6 sharp pencils and waited. Here comes a series of V's then a slight pause and then the 5 letter groups. I aced that receiving test and after all the other exams I was awarded the MOS of 051 Radio operator. |
| KI4NZU | Kristen | 2006 - I want the following story to be a very good promoter of CW usage.....I already knew a great deal about the Morse code because I was fascinated with the history and decided to learn it before... |
| N6KB | Ken | pre-2006 - The CW requirement did not keep me from being interested in ham radio..... The present CW requirement is such a joke anyway. ANYBODY can pass it..... Without CW it's just CB. Ham radio IS CW. |
| N0HHS | Eric | pre-2006 - I felt a little like a cheater for being an Extra with only 5 wpm code proficiency (from 16 years earlier), so I decided to re-learn the Code and try to get somewhat proficient. |
| ON5ZO | Franki | pre-2006 - I tried to make two or three qso's in CW every day, then grabbing that mic again... After a couple of days, CW took over. Right now the mic isn't even connected anymore. |
| VE6HF | Jeff | 2006-05-18 - ...I really love the code. The CW operators are a pretty good bunch out there. I hope to make CW contacts every week and my mic is not even plugged in!... I'm just having too much fun with the code! |
| W4SON | Jack | 2009-09-14 - I won SS for TN in November, 1951, 7 months after getting my ticket. After those 2 busy weekends, my straight key fist was shot. I went to a bug, then built a keyer a few weeks later. Before 1 year, I was rag chewing at 40 WPM. |
| W6SQL | Marc | pre-2006 - I just got my General upgrade on Sep 9, 2004 and since then have managed 17 CW QSOs. The microphone has been unplugged from the rig and now sits in a drawer - where it belongs! |
| W6YNS | Matt | pre-2006 - As for CW it has a consistent pitch that doesn't vary. Sometimes with the human voice with the conditions of solar activity, it isn't always feasible to use SSB. So CW has that advantage as well. |
| W8LQ | Chuck | pre-2006 - The kid sitting next to me in 7th grade ( a guy by the name of Bob Coppernoll) got me interested in Morse so we could talk to each other in class by squeezing hands across the aisle. |
| WA6OCP | Neal | pre-2006 - ...my last SSB QSO was on May 14. In one month, I had more CW contacts than I could find in my log from 1992 thru 2003. I have no desire to go back to sideband and the types of QSOs that are all too common there. |
| WA7KJC | Gale | pre-2006 - I would say that CW and homebrew equipment and antennas is amateur radio to me. I've operated other modes.......but CW is where my heart is. |
| WB6TNL | Steve | pre-2006 - Back then I always drooled over Ed's Collins S-Line, his Hallicrafters "T.O." keyer and his chrome Vibroplex "Vibrokeyer" paddle. Now that he is gone, I own that same Vibrokeyer and will always treasure it. |
| WB8FEQ | Al | pre-2006 - I responded to your poll about how I learned CW. I used a "Field and Stream" magazine article about the "EISHTMO" method when I was 14 and learned the characters in about an hour. My dad, a former Rail Road telegraph operator learned the different characters and sent me practice for a week or two.... |
| WD4GXD | Tim | 2007-02-12 - It was surprisingly easy for me to become comfortable with Morse code again even though my last real experience with CW was testing for Advanced/Extra Class nearly thirty years ago. CW opened up a whole new world of ham radio to me. |
| WD9FJL | Steve | pre-2006 - Those novice days were just as much fun as the class, because we were all plodding through the learning steps and working to that goal of General, or better. What a shame that we are losing this important part of the hobby. Those guys that fight CW today have missed a lot of enjoyment and camaraderie. |
| WU7F | Mark | pre-2006 - (ex-AC7XR) You've inspired me to put away my microphone.... CW is the right answer for me. However, CW is NOT like riding a bike! Well, at least not for me. My code speed, while never very fast was now less about 10 WPM on receive. I put the microphone away and started listening to CW. |
