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The quintessential essence of ham radio can be found on 40m CW late at night.
There is something almost spiritual about sending your simple signal out into
the void, and then hearing a reply come back. Intelligence from the noisy void.
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
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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
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