In a message dated 07-20-14, Mike Luther said to Holger Granholm:   
      
   Hi Mike,   
      
    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.   
      
   Even though I later in my life pioneered SSB in Finland and Aland   
   Islands I'm still a morse addict. I have built transmitters for AM, FM   
   and SSB and receivers and add ons to both types.   
      
   ML> power on 40 meter CW from a 6L6 to an 807, then to an 811 and up to   
   ML> the first 4-250.   
      
   In the beginning of my ham career 50 Wo was the limit so I started with   
   the combo 6F6 - 807 on an old tube receiver chassis. Later that power   
   limit was raised so I started to build a 4' rack with a hefty PS at the   
   bottom floor, next up was to be an AM modulator with 2x807 and on top a   
   4-65A PA.   
      
   In the mean time I had built an SSB exciter and suddenly an AM modulator   
   wasn't an interesting prospect anymore so it was never built.   
      
   Then the power limit was raised to 1 kW PEP and we moved to other living   
   quarters and the 4' rack became junk and I bought a Heathkit HA-14 PA   
   and the AC supply HP-23. Now that one is removed from duty since the   
   tubes (2x572B) have suffered from overdriving on mainly RTTY.   
      
   My main rig today is a Drake TR-7 plus an assortment of VHF/UHF/SHF rigs   
      
   ML> I was curious; how low power could I go and he would still be able   
   ML> to hear me?  We did a 'little' experiment.   
      
   ML> I got down to ONE WATT output power.   
      
   ML>                        HE COULD STILL HEAR ME!   
      
   ML> Both of us were totally shocked!  After we parted company in that   
   ML> QSO, I was so stunned with what I had learned however I realized I'd   
   ML> better get ready for my morning newspaper boy run on my Cushman   
      
   Yes, miracles do happen, hi.   
      
   ML> But interestingly, even Fido can still do a very important honorable   
   ML> job of caring for people and carrying even all of us upward in life   
   ML> without poking people in the side.  Even back to ring level and   
   ML> interrupt level code that can Dis And Dat even all over the whole   
   ML> Earth for thousands of people to hear in good weather.  At even a   
   ML> watt or two of power.  From Ham Radio remote sites on CW even on a   
   ML> few watts around the world.  If you want it to.  And the HAARP ain't   
   ML> playing, chuckle.  Or the Chemtrails ain't moosing the Ions around   
   ML> our Sphere.   
      
   Yes, Fido is very important but it also shares its use with other duties   
   and hobbies.   
      
   ML> Mike Luther N117C at 1:117/100   
      
   For a moment I thought that you had a new call sign, maybe you do have.   
   The one I recall was W5WQN and I haven't read anywhere that USA would   
   have started using the N1 prefix.   
      
   73 de Sam, OH0NC   
      
   aka Holger   
      
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