[GreenKeys] RTTY contacts and more

[Eugene Hertz]

Congrats indeed! What is most impressive is that you had the confidence to try a CW QSO! I passed the code exam (just barely) but could not possibly imagine trying to have a QSO without a LOT more practice. In fact, I have never even practiced sending, and while the theory is that if you can receive you can send, reality is quite different. So congrats for having actually achieved some proficiency in CW!

I am *this* close to getting my heavy metal on the air. I hope tonights the night!

Eugene

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Teletypeparts at aol.com [mailto:Teletypeparts at aol.com]
>Sent: Friday, March 9, 2007 02:57 PM
>To: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: [GreenKeys] RTTY contacts and more
>
>Sorry for waiting so long to get this into the mailbox. Would like to share 
>my fun of the last few weeks. 
> 
>I took my Morse code test Feb 19th. I sure would have liked to pass it. I 
>might have been last one to pass. Unfortunately, I failed by ONE letter. Oh 
>well.... 
> 
>Another VE session was done for me the same night and I was upgraded to 
>General class on Friday the 23 along with 3 or 4 others locally. I only had 2 days 
>grace time since I passed my Element 3 test last year on Feb 25th. 
> 
>Since then I have made some contacts on HF. A few on SSB and one on CW (not 
>pretty). And lastly of more interest to this forum, I made a RTTY one with 
>WA2HWJ in NY. 
> 
>I am looking for some RTTY contacts from you Greenkeyers. I can work 20 
>meters very well thanks to an antenna tuner and 40 meters as well. I am running 
>about 30-40 watts power on RTTY into a fixed dipole with best direction north 
>and south from my location in Vermont. 60 wpm baudot only. Using a 32 ASR 
>with 60 wpm gears. 
> 
>I dont think I can get to the west coast too well, but will try anything. 
> 
>Any takers? 
> 
>Again, thanks for the encouragement from all here for the past year. 
> 
>Wayne 
>KB1FDW 
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