[CQ-Contest] High-speed CW

[David Gilbert]

I also do not remember the date of my first license, nor the date when I 
upgraded to extra and got my current callsign.  I haven't a clue where 
my actual license is, but I suspect it doesn't exist anymore in physical 
form.  With few exceptions I have been active continually since 1967, 
both in DXing and contesting.  I have several thousand dollars invested 
in gear and antennas, but ham radio does not define me and it does not 
define my life.  The fact that you can't relate to that and that you 
would publicly call out anyone for it says way more about you than it 
does any of the rest of us.

Dave  AB7E



On 11/11/2011 7:31 AM, Joe wrote:
> When I read comments like this it totally flabbergasts me.  When I got
> my ticket in September of 1975, it is a day I will never ever forget
> till the day I die,  (unless i get Alzheimer's or something like that)
> Is the getting your ticket that low of importance that you can not even
> remember what year?
> Not only do I remember the year, 1975,  but the month, September, and
> the Date, it was the 15th,  And a Monday.
>
> It was a dull gray overcast day probably in the 50's, I still remember
> opening the mailbox and finding that envelope. Opening it right then and
> there, and yelling YEAH!!!!
>
> Then I immediately got in my car and drove to my buddies house (we took
> our novice test the same day) And I guess illegally looked in his
> mailbox and found the same envelope.  I placed the front of it against
> the glass of his door and rang the doorbell.
>
> When he opened the door I will also never forget his expression when he
> saw that envelope.  There isn't a drug out there that could have made
> either of us any higher than getting those envelopes that day.
>
> How anyone can not remember this stuff just baffles me.
>
> Joe  ex WN9SBD  Now WB9SD
>
> On 11/10/2011 1:51 PM, Scott Monks wrote:
>> I
>> am not a new ham-licensed “around” 1986 (since I’ve long lost my original
>> license I don’t know actual year and there is no easy place to find actual
>> date!!).