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My first CW contact

April 25th, 2008 by Giovanni

At last – I’ve finally gone on the air using CW (morse code). My first contact was with ZL2MS on 80M (3525KHz). I hadn’t intended to go on the air but the signal was strong, readable – why not I thought – got to start sometime …

Then I found out why all the tutorials on morse code contacts say “write it out first”  – I hadn’t of course. Brain turned to mush but Peter was amazingly merciful. The next one will be better, but it’s a buzz anyway.

Morse code is such a simple mode but somehow, elegant.

Giovanni – ZL2GX

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