Subj : Storage
To : Ed Vance
From : Roy Witt
Date : Thu Jun 26 2014 01:13 pm
Greetings Ed!
RW>> You are a dying breed. I learned morse to get a novice ticket
RW>> c1970, then had to give up AR for a few years for lack of
RW>> money, only to have to go through the testing again for another
RW>> novice ticket, c1977. Got on the air to practice morse in a
EV> I didn't know the Novice License was Re-Newable.
EV> 'Twasn't when I got mine.
Twasn't when I got my first one either. WN6ABE expired in 1972...the FCC
changed the rules sometime in-between 1972 and 1977 and they issued me
WD6DOI as a Novice...
EV> I know You're sure glad You could get a Novice License again.
It was the difference between being tested by my Elmer and paying a visit
to the FCC office in San Diego. It meant a Novice ticket vs a Technician
ticket.
EV> Ham Radio has lots of different areas to interest us Hams.
EV> We all don't do the same thing, but We Do It as Amateur Radio
EV> Operators and Enjoy what We Do.
Yeup.
EV> As I have been reading this Thread the thought has come to my mind of
EV> how many participate in CW Contests?
I've done that with a DX group. They were Extras, I was a Novice, then a
Technician and finally a General.
EV> I'd think that would be a fair way to find out if CW is a lost art or
EV> not, don't You think?
It might help to clean up some of the man-made noisy interfence on the
phone bands.
