I was born in 1934 and have lived all my life in Iowa. During one of our moves I lost my old ham licenses
and log books so I don't know exactly when I became a ham, but it was close to these times. I got
my novice, WN0MWW, in the summer of 1965 and the general in the fall. In the 70's
when our oldest son got his extra I couldn't let him get ahead of me so I got one too.
I used to chase dx, but after a while of sending lots of postal coupons I gave up on dx and just
hammed.
Later, computers took over my interests and I didn't do much hamming for a few years. Then I discovered
QRP and my interest was revived. I don't do a lot of operating, but I enjoy building small projects
using manhattan style.
I would like to do more cw work, but I can comfortably run at about 15 wpm. It seems everyone
is going at least 20 wpm on the air, but I have found a few slower fists. When I
got my extra I could copy most of 25 wpm so I didn't have to worry so much about the 20 wpm
test, but through non-use my speed had deteriorated to around 10 when I restarted cw work.
It is harder to get the speed back up at age 70 than 40!
I had also given up maintaining my web page, but seeing all the interesting things other hams
were doing and putting on the web I got interested in doing that so here I am back on HTML, which has
changed since version 2.0.
I recently bought a digital camera and now I am back to the web with camera in hand.