NPR on the ARRL 100th Anniversary

Even NPR is giving ham radio some press... Speaking about W1AW and the headquarters in Connecticut. I smiled when the reported said... "59 is a fancy way of saying, hear you loud and clear". Well at least they tried right? Listen to the segment below!

The Mysterious Mode - CW

I can still remember vividly nearly one year ago, sitting in front of my new rig, listening intently to the mysterious strings of dit's and dah's that clutter the 40 meter band at night. At the time, I wondered how could anyone make sense of the varied tones so close together, and what was the traffic? What veiled message could be so important that it would be encoded in a seemingly endless tense of audio and tonal music. I can remember straining to catch one or two of the only characters I knew at that time; K and N. It was a blaze of mind bending speed beeping to be sure. At least it was then.