First CW Contact!

6/2/2018

I made my first CW contact. It was with my instructor Pete from the CW Academy. I think it went well, it was a little nerve-wracking in the class sending morse code with 4 guys watching you, it’s a different kind of pressure when its going out over the air. It’s like you can almost feel the power of the key once you hit the BK-IN button to go from practice mode to transmit mode.

I talked with a guy, NN7CW, at Hamcation in Orlando after he was done taking the CW speed test and he suggested once I know the code to try to do at least once CW QSO a day. I’ve been trying to get one QSO of any sort each day(I’ve missed a few days due to not being around a radio and once or twice the bands just weren’t open). Now I’m going to work towards a daily CW QSO. Many thanks to Pete AG3R and the CW Academy.