Congratulations KB7QJC and KE7OVY
Two notable happenings, in my hammy world:
KB7QJC finally upgraded to a General Class license. His boys — and the rest of us, for that matter — have been after him for a rather long time, but the Morse code requirement was something he didn’t care to have to deal with. Now that it’s out of the way, he has upgraded. HF privileges! Wah-HOO!
The other gent who has earned my congratulations is currently KE7OVY, but will soon likely be K7BAN; he is the father of my buddy KE7JSM … who is also planning on changing his callsign, and has requested N7BAN. (Isn’t that cute? Father and son with matching callsigns. 
) The thing that makes this so cool for me, is that ‘OVY — an old military radio copyist(?) — can copy CW like nobody’s business, even after … well, “many, many” years of letting his skills languish on the shelf. He unconsciously infected ‘JSM at an early age with a desire to get into radio, and now his son and I are feeding off each other’s enthusiasm. Besides, it’s neat to see someone else join the hobby, ’cause I know how much fun it can be.
So a hearty congratulations, guys!
(And ‘OVY-cum-’BAN-sr., we expect you to be upgrading to at least General soon, too; you already have the code down pat, and will have so much fun bumming around the world wirelessly!)
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