5000 QSO in A1A

#HamRadio
#morsecode
#yaesu
#bencher
After returning to amateur radio after 35 years of inactivity, I have just completed 5000 A1A morse code contacts, in 16 months.
I do mostly 40 meters, and my antenna is very modest, a long wire in my garden at a few meters, high, or a PAC-12 quarter wave antenna.
But morse code allows me to make nice contacts, and please don't tell me about FT8 ;-))
I started with an ICOM IC-735, but now I'm with a YAESU FTDX-10 and a YAESU FT-710. They are incredible machines.
I hope to contact you soon,
Oliver