It was busy down at the Hands-On Museum yesterday. I goto there a little after 10am, and Eugene, KD8HSU was waiting for me. Eugene, who is an on-again, off-again resident of Ann Arbor hadn’t seen the new rig, so I gave him a quick demo. Fortunately, 20m was open, and we were able to work YT40E (Serbia) on CW right off the bat.
Shortly after, Jim, K8ELR, and Ovide, K8EV, showed up. Then, Quentin, KD8IPF, and his kids arrived. A little later, Ralph, AA8RK, came for a visit, and Mike, one of the students from last week’s class arrived.
K8ELR, who is now our “digital modes specialist,” got all set up to do Hellschreiber. He called CQ a couple of times, and got a few responses, but apparently the band was a little up and down, and was never actually able to complete a contact.
At about 3 pm, I sat down to demonstrate CW for Mike. After QSYing to 40m and calling CQ a couple of times, we connected with Roger, W1OJ. After a nice QSO with Roger, we got a call from Lynn, NG9D. I think I appropriately impressed Mike with my CW skills.
We also were visited by a couple of museum visitors who turned out to be hams. So, overall it was a great day down at the museum.