Today I acquired...........

[Wedg1e]

There are a few of us radio amateurs on here. Shout out if you need any assistance.
M0MXD

..and former hams too

'73... (ex) G1EPX (or --. /.----/./.--./-..- if you prefer)

 

[Wedg1e]

Thanks, that might be useful. I realise joining a local club would be a good idea but I don't know how far I want to get into this as a hobby. For the moment, I'm just getting in deep enough so I can entertain my son.

If you fancy using CW (Morse), see if you can reserve a callsign (you used to be able to) that 'flows off the key' easily.
A couple above would be a 'handful'... --/-----/-.../-/--- and --/-----/--/-..-/-.. (lots of sequential dashes are a pain)
One of my old cronies passed his Morse test (as you did back then) and waited a few weeks until the Class A register reached G0CNN (CNN being dah-di-dah-dit dah-it dah-dit) before he could get on the HF bands.
Something like JQY would be a recipe for RSI of the wrist