you wanna know redundant?
I was the last course in the British army required to pass 20WPM in morse.

So, basically sarge, I have to pass this course, at 20WPM, or I don't get my signaller's pay, and can't get any kind of advance in seniority, and have to spend 6 months listening to fucking tapes on a fucking walkman like I'm communicating with moonbase alpha, and yet I also know that the day I pass the course, I not only will have to never use morse again, but there will never be anyone else to transmit it to?

We should have a bad motivation QOTW, come to think of it.
(pounana Slept well, and dreamed of large women, on, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 1:10, 1 reply)

*rescinds*
but yes, you're quite right, you don't know geek smug until you've made comms with Cyprus using a barbed wire fence in herefordshire as a 60m skywave dipole on 5 watt send. Stick your 24meg broadband up your pipe...
(pounana Slept well, and dreamed of large women, on, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 1:13, closed)

Actually that's quite good going for NVIS
I didn't know Cyprus had the 5Mhz allocation.

www.rsgb-spectrumforum.org.uk/5mhz%20experiment.htm
( buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 8:06, closed)

Might not have been the 60m amateur band...
... if you see what I mean.

73s de MM0YEQ
(gordonjcp, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 14:12, closed)

Oh yeah
Hereford, morse, Cyprus...... fcuk
( buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 19:01, closed)