On Apr 5, 12:11 pm, notbob wrote:
On 2010-04-05, Jeffrey Angus wrote:

On 4/4/2010 5:46 PM, notbob wrote:
Thank you all for the great replies to my query.

But you didn't answer any of the questions I asked.

Your wish is my command.

Hi Notbob,

I think maybe Jeff's comment was toward what does or doesn't make a
real Ham. The great thing about Ham radio is that there are so many
facets to the hobby. So many in fact that it isn't possible to
determine one particular part's worth over another. Morse code use is
one of the coolest parts of the hobby, in which very unsophisticated
and low power equipment can in the hands of a skilled practitioner of
the art, be used to communicate around the world. Doesn't get much
better than that. Your comment about the Romantic in you is spot on. I
love the old equipment, one of my borrowed sayings is that "I love the
smell of a tube rig in the morning.
Hopefully however, in time you will come to understand that it isn't
the mode that makes a real ham - it's the person behind the key, or
the mic, or the computer.
Now go get that license, I'll be listening for ya!

- 73 de Mike N3LI -