Best QSO in ages...

[W5EUQ]

That's really nice Bry.  I'm encouraged in a time where I was beginning 
to feel that we may BE a dying breed. It was nice of you to QSO with him 
too.  Keep up the good deeds......  Bob

*Then I got an email from an old friend from Arkansas: *

Of course some of us were on CW way BEFORE we were 15 years old, weren't 
we Bob.  I got started on CW when I was 12 and had a brand new Novice 
license (1954) --- boy, those were the days!

/Brent  W5FRG
Clarksville, Ark.


W5EUQ responds....  Wow... a VOICE FROM THE PAST....   I grew up in Fort 
Smith Arkansas, just a few miles from Clarksville.  W5EUQ was barely 
issued when W5FRG got his ticket.....  I feel like a youngin' now....  
boy... for the "good ole days".... novice tickets and exploring the air 
waves "for the first time"..... wow...   Bob   W5EUQ, Tampa(now)...  

Thanks Bry for the trip back in time......  Bob




Brian Carling wrote:
> I just finished an unusual 10 wpm CW contact on 40m 
> CW with a station in Huntsville, AL that really brightened 
> up my day.
>
> I looked up the other station on the web while we 
> were talking and discovered that he just got his ticket 
> in August!
>
> It started to get more interesting when he sent:
> "AGE HR IS 15."   How encouraging!
> A YOUNG person getting on CW and loving it!
>
> Next he tells me he got his Technician license when 
> he was just 13 years old!
>
> We chatted about our rigs. He was using  Drake TR7
> and putting a good strong signal down here into central 
> Florida.
>
> Here's a youngster that has NOT been totally abosrbed 
> by computers, the internet, rap, sports and countless other 
> evils of 21st century youth.
>
> It bodes well for the future of ham radio when you hear 
> teenagers enjoying it, and especially when they are 
> running CW instead of blabbing into some trashy UHF 
> walkie-talkie rig.
>
> The QSL card is already stamped and ready to mail to him!
>
> 73 de AF4K, Bry
>
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