[OT] New toy...

Congrats, Daniel. I am a HAM amateur since 1974, my call is PE1CKF. Just like you I never passed the morse code tests. It is difficult to find the time *each* evening for, let's say 20-30 minutes, listening to morse. But with the latest developments like morse code exam at 5 words per minute or even less (!) perhaps I will one day be able to talk to you on 40 or 20 meters without the morse code study. During the study at the Technical Highschool, in the 3rd year, you work for some companies as part of the education. One semester I had to stay as a guest with some people. In the evening I was alone in my room so I took my rig, an ICOM-211 144-146 MHz all mode, with an HB9CV antenna with me the next week. Could enjoy the local HAMs, but after some 10 minutes participation, the woman came up the stairs. I had to stop immediately whatever I was doing because her electrical organ made very strange sounds as if an old drunk sailor had hidden inside the organ and was mumbling something .... I am pretty sure that many people on this list are HAM. - Henk.