Just passed my General class test on Saturday!!!!

[WRQI663]

As a musician, there are far too many bands I like to call only one a favorite 

I always enjoy hearing my refrigerator calling "cq fd" when it squeaks after the contest ends

[Davichko5650]

4 hours ago, WRQI663 said:

As a musician, there are far too many bands I like to call only one a favorite 

I always enjoy hearing my refrigerator calling "cq fd" when it squeaks after the contest ends

I'm really that way also, just threw LZ out there as a joke.  I can't think of a genre of music that doesn't have something I don't like in it.

Mine is the a/c in the shack, seems to warble a nice mark/space after those RTTY Contests go silent.

[AdmiralCochrane]

The number of hams that I know that are also musicians is surprising to outsiders.  There must be some kind of brain function that links the two.

[WRQI663]

I think radio waves are the same as audio frequencies - resonance....either you are in tune or not.

Something we are all familiar with

[Davichko5650]

On 7/3/2025 at 4:37 PM, AdmiralCochrane said:

The number of hams that I know that are also musicians is surprising to outsiders.  There must be some kind of brain function that links the two.

Could be, cw, the original digital mode, can have a certain rhythmic cadence to it, as do many of the digital modes.

The other thing I find interesting is the number of amateur operators I run into with a SIGINT background similar to mine.

[GreggInFL]

On 7/3/2025 at 5:37 PM, AdmiralCochrane said:

The number of hams that I know that are also musicians is surprising to outsiders.  There must be some kind of brain function that links the two.

A friend with a doctorate in industrial psychology once told me that aptitudes for math correspond with aptitudes for music.

[AdmiralCochrane]

Music is math is music.  At some colleges, some music classes are accepted as required math credits.  My wife's best friend got out of several math classes via that route.