Not a lot in the way of bells, whistles or frills, just the simple act of communication, stripped to its basic component. It isn't the "will it hurt me?" or "Can I eat it?" communication of a harsh and competitive world, but a more fraternal sharing of interest at the elemental level.

In today's digitized age, very seldom does one send CW because one HAS to. Rather the people sending CW, particularly late at night, are sending CW because they LOVE to. -Donald

+++++

I'm in my second ham "life." Started out as KA6MZC, upgraded to N6DZO. Had N6DZO until the late 90's. Life happened, my license lapsed. XYL Nicki is a professional pianist. Two harmonics, one girl ("Cece", age 8) one boy ("Joey", age 5).

Decided to get active again, became KG6SQF. Decided to upgrade to extra as I was tired of "high Scrabble score" callsigns. Fate finally smiled on me with "AE6RF."

You will find me on HF CW. Mostly 40m during the evenings, but I also venture to 20m and 30m. I love getting outdoors to do portable QRP, but don't get to do it too much (see XYL and harmonics described above).

I'm on also 2m, 440, 1.2GHz. Some packet, lots of APRS, lots of ARES support. RTTY contesting when time allows. Some PSK-31 on HF, occasional check-ins to the Noontime net on 40m. I've been a little active on the LEO satellites.

So, there ya go.

73 de Donald

ARS #2122, FISTS #12302, QRP ARCI #12551, SKCC #3087