[Today’s run: rest day]
I fired up the ham radio this morning.
I went through a bit of a drought in activity in May and June, don’t know why. But today I got on 40 meters and had a nice chat with k8ehe, Terry in Dublin, OH.
He is retired and works as a lay minister at a church where he’s been attending for a long time.
I told him about visiting Dublin around 20 years ago for some training sessions with OCLC and he knew where that was.
I told him we had fed the chickens and that my wife keeps chickens and bees. He said that fresh eggs and honey sounded good to him.
This was all in morse code, so the conversation is kind of slow and simple. I was using my homebrew straight key, and my arm started to get a bit tired. I haven’t done much straight key work recently.
Besides the physical effort, the other part of morse code that keeps things slow is trying to remember how to spell words as you send them. I have an electronic gizmo that shows me the letters as I send them. That is very helpful because my spelling is more visual-based. I can see if it “looks right” as I go. Without that I frequently get into spelling trouble.