My Amateur Radio license KK7DV is Advanced class too!
(Use
http://www.qrz.com to lookup call signs.)
It was back from when I had to pass a more code
reception test at 13 words per minute. Pretty fun,
kind of like learning to play "Dance Dance Revolution"
which I have done recently with the Mario Mix
GameCube game -- That's good exercise by the way.
This is really getting off-topic, sorry!
Excellent on the contact with South Africa, K7TIM...
For the info of others, this HF communication we're talking about
involves signals that go right from K9TIM's radio in his Hummer,
bounce off the ionosphere once or twice and around the world
without the help of any repeater or Internet linking system.
(But, it's also fun to use Internet links to talk to
countries like South Africa and Australia with super clear
quality and always-available reliability, at no cost.)