It was, all things considered, a good exercise in patience, the caffeine in my AZ iced tea, and superior operating ability. 80m was a bust, although I did work KO4EJD, Darin, and had a few other stron

Tom: Most likely true unless one throws the microphone away forever. Learned CW in my early 30s and after getting my advanced I became a phone operator for next 30 years. Came back to CW in my 60s and

In reply to KG5OIB, my sense is that becoming really comfortable with CW after a certain age becomes less and less likely. Having seen several folks in clubs diligently work at CW for a while it seems

thanks for this post! I remember desperately trying to learn code back in the 70s. Try as I would, I could never master it. I could easily pass the tech part of the test, all the way to Advanced, but

Thank you for trying!! We got hammered, swamped, blanked out, toasted, frozed, and QRM'ed, and suffered "friendly fire". In short, normal stuff. Hahahah.

We had a good time. 10 to 90% copy, fade on the most important bits, and weird signals about. Like two tin cans but with a broken string. Hahah. So lots of fun.

Got my extra March 1999 had the 20 wpm code test. Jim K5SP

Milt did you see me at all? I have the CW also but its not a problem. Called CQ for over half hour, had QSO with W4ABF earlier, then band died. After that called CQ for over 20 minutes and never saw a

calling on psk on 3582 (or 3581+1K, hahah)...and nothing...some times I hate the Gods of Propagation...

Don has big time cw at 3581.5. I moved up to 3.582.0 n6mg

Participants, I'm on 80m cq'n at 3.581.5. There's no CW. Some QRN, but it's still pretty much daylight here. Odd sounding QRN, and... No RF in the shack. The inventor of toroidal cores is a genius! St

Searched for that info but couldn't seem to find it. Thanks Steve ! I recall when I passed Extra without code as at that time I had 13 wpm with the General/Advanced. Recall at the time that some were

Just for the record, my K3 has a very good notch filter and I know how to use it...and do. I also have a copy of Part 97 and have read and understand it. Sure didn't intend to start a furor, but it ap

More info, since folks started talking about the test elements: From 1951 to 1987, test elements were as follows: Element 1 was the code test. 1A was 5 wpm, 1B was 13 wpm, and 1C was 20 wpm Element 2

OK, since I took my Extra soon after my General in 2006, I've probably conflated the two. My code test was for 5 wpm and must have been for the Extra. I know for sure that I had to take it and that it

Regarding code testing... - All amateur licenses required code tests prior to 1991. Code speed was dependent on license class--5 wpm for Novice and Tech, 13 wpm for General and Advanced, and 20 wpm fo

Tom, Until 2003/2004 you needed to pass Element 1 to get general, if you had an NC Tech licence and passed Element 1, but not element 3, you were called Tech Plus. After July 2003, WRC dropped all cod

Unless they gave me credit for 13 wpm when I was an Advanced in 1979. Hmmmm.... Jerry n9avy

Ron: We all screw up at some point and that is why we're called "Amateurs". If we never screwed up we'd be "Professionsals" and much would be expected of us . If/wen you screw up just hope no one saw

I passed element 2 (Technician) and element 3 (General) on 2/11/2002 and was awarded the Technician license. I passed element 1 (5 wpm code) on 3-1-2002 and got the General license. It is all right th