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Hated the idea of having to learn the code. But had a great Elmer that made the learning great fun. Haved been CW almost exclusive for about 20 years and love it. Thanks to Terry AB4UM. Age 64 years young.
73
Arnold W5AEG
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62 and licensed for 21 years and work mostly CW
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Among other things, that wonderful CW requirement always seemed to serve as a very effective "high-pass filter", generally keeping out the low-life and the riff-raff....both the CW and phone QSOs were usually clean and nice, something to be proud of....the amateur radio corps during those years was a stable and largely responsible group of folks who had made a definite commitment to do what had to be done obtain their license....they did whatever they had to do to learn the code and pass the test....that separated them from those who had somehow convinced themselves that they just couldn't learn the code  , and from the current "Saturday-morning-wonders" who can sometimes go from Technician-to-Extra before lunch....CW operators were largely, and still are, very proud of their call-signs, because they had actually "earned" their call-signs....no one wanted "a vanity call" because their assigned call-sign was the very unique product of their own significant effort, something akin to their own name, something to be very proud of....I would be ashamed today to have a non-ham friend or loved one listen "cold" with me to portions of the HF phone bands....I hope the three entities that are responsible for all this, are happy!
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Age 71 and been a Ham 57 years, and 99-44/100ths pure CW OP. The vast majority of those I work are over 50.
“There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.”
John Adams
"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
Plato
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 Originally Posted by W4HAY
Age 71 and been a Ham 57 years, and 99-44/100ths pure CW OP. The vast majority of those I work are over 50.
May I join your club ? I'm 65 and been a ham 51 years and 99.99% cw.
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Age 52. Licensed in 2010. Been doing mainly CW 6 months.
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Age here is 51,got my novice May 14,1975. I work mostly cw,with some phone on hf and repeaters. There are some advantages of being older. You can say you remember the red line on your meter indicating 75 watt input power from your HW-16!
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Mine was at 50 though, max legal output for a Novice in '73.
Originally Posted by NO2A
Age here is 51,got my novice May 14,1975. I work mostly cw,with some phone on hf and repeaters. There are some advantages of being older. You can say you remember the red line on your meter indicating 75 watt input power from your HW-16!
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62 and received my novice ticket 1991 Still a pup in the hobby
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Originally Posted by W4HAY
Age 71 and been a Ham 57 years, and 99-44/100ths pure CW OP. The vast majority of those I work are over 50.
Same here, though the same is true of all modes not just CW.
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