The text is the first paragraph of a voice over script that I wrote for a Field Day video that I never got around to making.

https://youtu.be/r3mHme8Kj-Y

footnote: Ron Anders K3RA, Field Day – A Mirror of Amateur Radio History, ARRL QST, Dec 1999, 28

Actually, I did learn with letter groups. I learned 5 letters at a time. Yes, they created little words but mostly just random groups of those 5 letters. Gradually there were more letters added in groups of 5 and there were more words, but the random groups continued. Then there were the ARRL practice sessions. Text was from various issues of…

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Not particularly overwhelmed. I’m almost all of my operating is CW with a very rare op on SSB. Everything else is “that other stuff”.

I have seen on CW boards on Facebook advice to not learn to copy letters but rather go faster and learn to head copy whole words. The reason being that this will allow one to copy at higher speeds. It makes sense; I find myself “head copying” on occasion. However, this is because we speak in known words. However, it seems to me that if one…

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Hello Jim.

Does this site have any facility to send a private message to another member?

Straight Key Night doesn’t seem to be a contest. Yes, we may compare our contact counts, but it’s not like Field Day where there are “points”. For me, Field Day iis a chance to do it outside.

Hello Jim. It’s been quite a while. What is the status of the CW contest that you mentioned?

I see your point and I think you are right. However, it might be a good idea to rename it to include some indication comments should have some relation to ham radio. Perhaps “Other ham radio stuff”

I lived my entire life in New Jersey, but when my XYL got a job with the feds in DC, we moved to Virginia. One of the first things I did get on the local repeater. I met Frank, AA4ZS (SK) who held court during AM and PM commuter hours. WOW!!!!! INSTANT FRIENDS!!!!!. Gradually, as his health failed, he dropped the AM sessions but still operated…

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The old Hamcommunity.com site had a section for non-ham related topics. Is this the same type of segment – discussions of anything else?

I have call setter plates on car and my mobile rig set to a local repeater. It has occurred to me that it might be a good idea to have 146.52 displayed on the rear bumper to tell any ham passing me that I’m on that frequency for direct contact. But, as I mentioned, my mobile is set for a local repeater. Does anyone know of any 2 meter rigs…

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You mention 10 and 15 meters. Let’s not forget about 80 meters for techs interested in CW. 3.525 to 3.600 segment is available to techs for CW and we hold a slow speed CW round table every Saturday and Sunday morning at 0730 Eastern Time (1230 GMT) on 3.565 MHz for people learning CW or dusting off the cobwebs. We will go as slowly as…

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