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I did not know which Emoji to use on your post. I love it!! I am definitely promoting this one to the front page, I just need the right photo. Anyone have a personal photo of a mean looking house tower??

Show off 😩 AWESOME!! Congrats. Message me as soon as you have your callsign. Also, if you later decide to get a vanity callsign, no sweat, just let me know. Again, congrats!!!

Hi Jim. Welcome aboard, glad to have you here in our nice, small, but warm and friendly community. Jim

Welcome Saquib. We are so so happy to have you join our community. I read about your site in the history section. I will do what I can to help you promote https://itshamradio.com. It's great that we can collaborate at such a DX distance 😏 By the way, I will immediately post a link to the website in our directory and move it to the front page for a few days.

Well, let me tell you, where I live... you so much as unpack a drone from the box and you'll have Federal Agents offering to give you a lift to a cosy one-bedroom studio with apparently great fitness facilities. Kidding aside, the Nation's capital drone flight rules are so so simple: No No No! I really don't know why I even keep mine 😞

MaryAnn, you teach us so much, seriously. I am regularly amazed by the depth of your CW knowledge.

Nice! So, a little story... A few years back, methinks it was for Field Day 2019, I used a DJI Phantom 2, I think that's what I have, to run our dipoles over a ±60 to 80-foot tree. I also used a release mechanism that they use for drone fishing. I can't right now, but in a couple of days, I'll take a few pics and put them up. But the story does not need pics. The story is that the first couple of tries went well. We managed to get some braided fishing line over the tree and then pull the antenna wire over the top. However 🙄 when it came time for the third or fourth wire, we got a sudden sustained gust of wind, and here I was with @K3MZ and @W4TG chasing after this drone which by now was well to the other side of Washington Monument State Park. To make matters worse, 😩 the braided line had decided to wrap itself into one of the rotors making control quasi-impossible. Ultimately, I had to ground the drone, hoping it would not get mangled in the trees. We did manage to retrieve it with, as the only damage, a broken rotor which I then fixed. Moral of the story, just when you think there's no wind, there is wind 🥵

Call me absolutely totally stupid but it did not dawn on me that CQD was a CQ plus a D. I've seen CQD my whole life and it did not hit me. 🙄 As for CQ as a single character, I've never heard it that way either, nor have I ever sent it that way; always two.

Hi Marcus. Welcome to Ham Community, a small but friendly place with some very experienced hams to help out when we can.

Love you both! My dream for Ham Community... civil collaboration with a sprinkling of informed discord. Just came up with that 😎😇

Like Anthony said, welcome to the group. We are a small community with highly dedicated hams trying to raise the overall commitment to the hobby. Again, welcome.

Well said, and now very clearly understood. In this case, I am 100% with you.

As is sometimes the case, I 'half-agree' with you 😇 I miss QSL cards also. It was an intrinsic part of the hobby as I was growing up and remember, I've been on the air, in some form or another since the early 1960s. But I do understand why the attraction of QSL cards, whether printed or electronic, has faded away. When was the last time I received an actual letter, other than Christmas cards? Heck, I don't think I've received a birthday card in a decade. Everything is either via email, SMS or, in my case, an online forum. Again, I miss the good ol' postal connection, but I understand it. It's not so much, in my opinion, that people are lazy or worried about the postage. I would argue that it's simply a matter of now-adopted habits. Also, not sure I would agree that people are cheap b...rds. I know I'm not. But again, when was the last time I actually sent a letter, never mind receiving one. I honestly, truly cannot remember. It might have been to my mom before she passed in 2006, maybe. Otherwise, it might actually date back to the 90s. I'll conclude by saying that for us old-timers, QSL cards were magical. I miss them, but I understand why they have lost their luster. Thoughts?

Call me dumb, but I never thought of that. CQ De... is, indeed, CQD. Yup, I definitely prefer 🆘

Quick note that my Nitecore flashlight also leaves a long pause between letters. Personally I’m still for being clear. If it were me sending an SOS I would pause between letters. This said, I’m fairly certain that anyone who knows what SOS is to begin with, would recognize either version. And if someone did not know what SOS was, they would understand neither.

Esquimalt... memories.