I C 8 P O
F memories.
I received my license in 1975 and CW is and was my preferred transmission mode.
Because the morse code has always fascinated me since elementary school.
When I made my first cw qsos with a torch-lamp between my home and a cousin's home about 200 meters away.
And because my father told me many WWII stories of his job as a soldier CW_Operator and the skills they achieved to transmit
and receive at fast speeds.
My first radio had been a Yaesu FTDX 505.
the antennas were a GP 14avq and some dipoles for 40 and 80 meters.
At the beginning of the 1980 a new rig has appeared in the market , it was the FT101
and wanting many knobs to rotate accompained the 101E with the receiver FT101R and FL2100 PA
This setup gave plenty of ssb\cw output.
One day I was attracted by some strange signals on 14.085Khz and so I discovered the RTTY mode .
In those times the radio market was full of rtty_machines.
One popular and cheap model was the Olivetti T2CN ( no pic to be found around) with its brag tape reader.
The modem was an home built ST6 with 2" scope tube for the tuning.
Such hard-rtty setup was very noisy. Still remember my first contests in rtty, and the whistles driving in my head.
The output power was lower than 250 watt with the FL2100, as the transmitters in those times were not so strong as the today ones.
This was my second station setup in the early 1980s .
But of course the technique goes on and I discovered of a new RTTY electronic system
called Noiseless_Rtty developed by DJ6HP with some type ahead memory and some memories for storing
the name ,qth and other station's info , on the right is the AFSK 170Hz modulator HIGH_TONES 2125Mark+2295Space with the 88mH inductors.
Sometime later was added 1kbRam for the WAE QTCs.
:: 
The home-built tuner(far-right) has been in use since nowadays and has been
changed with a more modern (!!) MN2700 Drake only because it is black as the other rigs.
and because it can be tuned on 160Meters that the old one did not.
Toward the end of 80s another fine rig appeared, it was the FT902DM.
It substituted the old fine FT101e
The 1990 years had seen a period of STBY in HAMRADIO activity , but still keeping all the relationship with the old HAM_Friends...
The story will follow as soon I get more time to write it ... :-))