Hello All, if you’ve worked me on the CW bands, you may guess, I really love a good CW rag chew. A member  Fists:13486. I joined the CTC DX group as well, #2.472 for European DX stations looking for rare ND contact. I got started in Ham Radio 1976 via my mentor, Russell Burgess, W0PUP in Velva, ND. Russell gave me my first Novice exam and I was very excited to have passed and get on the air. I’ve been involved in the hobby ever since. I’ve had up many wire antennas and at one time, a complete dipole farm for all HF Bands. I called it a bird trap, for an occasional Owl would bump into the wire and lucky none ever got hurt. I also had a home brew 20 mtr Quad up 60 feet on a rebuilt wind mill tower but the winds in ND were very hard on it. I took all down after a number of short years into the hobby and put up a Mosley Classic 33 with the 40 meter kit on it and after an ice storm broke the boom. I replace it with a heavier ¼ thick boom, one piece and that did the trick for the ice but the wind again was a factor. I had a HyGain DX 88 Vertical up also but didn’t use it much until I moved out of the valley 11 miles East of Velva to Bergen, ND, my present home. I have the Vertical up out here and now I am hoping to get up a Delta Loop, since I’ve had one up before and it’s a very choice antenna for those of you that have the room. I have enjoyed some Sky Warn activities and Field Days with the Minot, ND radio club. A great bunch of operators as well. I’mrunning a whole new stn, IC7600,LDG1KWPro autotuner, signalink Delux forsome digital Modes. Still work majority of CW. Being in rare state for CW operators, we hams in ND, do stay busy.