virtual hamfest

From: Dave McGuire <mcguire_at_neurotica.com>
Date: Wed Feb 16 13:24:53 2000

On February 16, Mark Tapley wrote:
> Howdy. I'm utterly inactive but I do actually have (had? I'd better
> check, may have expired) technician KB6UOH.
> My wife was listening to me struggling to work up to 5 WPM code,
> using our Mac Plus (am I on-topic now?) as a random code generator. She
> thought it sounded kind of neat, tried it out, and was doing 10 WPM in a
> few days. (grrrr!). On the way down to the test I taught her Ohm's law and
> a few frequencies and talked her into taking the test. She took clean code
> (and the volunteers there were begging her to try out the general code
> test) and squeaked by the multiple-choice stuff and got license KB6UOI
> (awww, how sweet, consecutive numbers...).
> Now if we'd just get a radio and get on the air.....

  She thought CW sounded neat? Does she have a sister? ;)

          -Dave McGuire
Received on Wed Feb 16 2000 - 13:24:53 GMT