HF

Well lets see. I have a few DX contacts. Can't compete with some obsessed people but nonetheless, I am a casual operator. If my radio was incorporated into my bed I would use it a lot more often but now I have a more comfortable chair that I use at my desk. So now I will actually get on the air when I can. Its just my online life takes me away from that desk usually onto the considerably more comfortable bed. Thank goodness for laptops. So yea I enjoy HF when I can actually use it. I usually check into a few nets occasionally. There is other people out there that can represent the "professional, advanced, competitive" contesting people so I am a causal operator. I just need to find someone to constantly talk to on there and I will get back into it. Oh well. Anyway so yes HF is fun and UNLIKE the internet you never know who you may be talking to. Puts a little more fun in the contact. Especially when you consider that overseas operators are usually people of the higher class such as governmental officials and things of that nature. So yes it can be interesting. I have a SMALL collection of QSL cards and I am not one to display how fast I can work stations and forget them. I would rather lead on a QSO for a bit and actually LEARN about the person rather than the "59 blah blah bye" stuff. There is a time and a place for that and I try to stay away. Just enjoy talking rather than enjoying a rare QSL card. But don't plug up the DX cause a lot of people don't enjoy that. Be courteous. And enjoy.

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Last Updated: Thursday, April 17, 2003