Hi Hol(y) Ham Man!   
      
   The more and more I hear the 'news' these days, the more it drills into me the   
   absolute positive relationship that Ham Radio has had on the whole human   
   tribe.  Even, chuckle, if you go back to the beginning of that and think with   
   Re-Morse!   
      
    HG> The musical sound of a CQ is among the first letter combination you   
    HG> learn. There are however several different learning methods based on   
    HG> different theories. I'm not shure any more but IRC the course I started   
    HG> before being called in to military duty started with the EISH5 letters.   
      
    HG> I have never actually used a keyboard for sending even though I built   
    HG> one from a QST article to be used with my Sinclair ZX-81 computer but   
    HG> that one was succeeded by a CP/M computer and I never made another   
    HG> attempt to redesign or construct another keyboard.   
      
   Morse Code is, yes, a digital way of getting information from our brains   
   across even the whole world, chuckle.  One of the most impressive moments of   
   my life as a kid was when I had extended my RF power on 40 meter CW from a 6L6   
   to an 807, then to an 811 and up to the first 4-250.  It was in the dark hours   
   back in my shack room to the dark hours on the other of the Earth. Behind our   
   garage on a very quiet none noisy dark night I was being a bug boy with a good   
   friend of mine in Perth Australia.  The conditions on 40 Meters were so good   
   that morning/evening both of us had S9 signals on each end.  I was curious;   
   how low power could I go and he would still be able to hear me?  We did a   
   'little' experiment.   
      
   I started reducing my power and sending him the power level on CW and he'd   
   come back and tell me he could still hear me.  Down, down, down it went.  I   
   was STUNNED.  It was a dark moon night; only starlight outside under my 40   
   meter dipole up 30 feet in the air.  I got down to ONE WATT output power.   
      
                          HE COULD STILL HEAR ME!   
      
   Both of us were totally shocked!  After we parted company in that QSO, I was   
   so stunned with what I had learned however I realized I'd better get ready for   
   my morning newspaper boy run on my Cushman Motor Scooter.  I had to do that   
   every morning just to even have money to eat.  As I walked out the door to go   
   get started on that, I had my five cell battery flashlight in my hand in the   
   very dark night.  It hit me!   
      
   The wattage of that flashlight bulb was about one watt!  I froze in my walk   
   out in the back yard, shaking.  I looked up into the dark clear sky at the   
   stars and pointed the flashlight up into the sky.  I pushed the button turn-on   
   switch on the light and sent Morse Code 'CQ" up into the sky toward Perth,   
   looking at how little up into the sky that one watt beam was able to go!    
   That's as far as a one watt beam could be seen in light?  Yet a one watt beam   
   on 40 meter CW could be heard in Perth, Australia from College Station, Texas   
   in the USA?  Then it really hit me!  There really is something bigger than all   
   of this on this Earth, no matter what culture or tribe you belong to Mike.   
      
        But wait!  If there were a thousand people even all over not   
        Austrailia but even out on the ocean of an many other countries   
        even THEY could hear me even with a ONE WATT communications   
        'Call-to-Quarters'.  Even 'Call-to-Quarters-Distress'. Or SOS.   
      
   But Mike, not only for things of distress.  Also as to how to hide not only a   
   few letters that took the place of words to reach out for help to even   
   thousands of people in maybe in need, from even a tiny force that nobody might   
   even understand of the power it had.  So that I could continue even more   
   toward my purpose here on this Earth as I even knew from my family training   
   and actions even fron three or four years of age.  To carry everyone upward I   
   encounter with the highest possible choice for decisions they make and never   
   poke folks in the side to lie, cheat and steal from them.  Though it is   
   perfectly honest to make a fair profit on what you do in life.   
      
   And look where Ham Radio has gone now!  BYOD, BFOM, plus all even bad this and   
   that, together with even encryption of letter codes that can be done even   
   though they look neat to unaware folksee's.   
      
   But interestingly, even Fido can still do a very important honorable job of   
   caring for people and carrying even all of us upward in life without poking   
   people in the side.  Even back to ring level and interrupt level code that can   
   Dis And Dat even all over the whole Earth for thousands of people to hear in   
   good weather.  At even a watt or two of power.  From Ham Radio remote sites on   
   CW even on a few watts around the world.  If you want it to.  And the HAARP   
   ain't playing, chuckle.  Or the Chemtrails ain't moosing the Ions around our   
   Sphere.   
      
      
   Mike Luther N117C at 1:117/100   
      
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