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Re: [TowerTalk] Anniversary

To: "Towertalk" <towertalk@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Anniversary
From: "Tom Osborne" <w7why@verizon.net>
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 18:58:59 -0800
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Hi Tod

Best thing I heard was "If nobody was to tell you how old you, are, how old 
would you be?"  73
Tom W7WHY


> The official definition of "old" is:
>
> Anyone who is ten years older than your current age.
>
> The definition of 'young punks' is anyone who is then years younger than
> your current age.
>
>
> As the saying goes, "I'm not lost, my car is!"
>
>
> Tod, K0TO
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com
>> [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of
>> ersmar@comcast.net
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 4:40 PM
>> To: Reicher, James; towertalk@contesting.com
>> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Anniversary
>>
>> Jim:
>>
>>      I don't think of it as I'm old.  I think of it as there
>> are a lot more younger people around than there used to be.  Thanks.
>>
>>
>> 73 de
>> Gene Smar  AD3F
>>
>>
>>
>> > Dang!  You're OLD!!! :)
>> >
>> >
>> > 73 de N8AU, Jim in Raymore, MO
>> >
>> > Message: 3
>> > Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 13:07:27 -0500
>> > From: <ersmar@comcast.net>
>> > Subject: [TowerTalk] Anniversary
>> > To: <topband@contesting.com>, <towertalk@contesting.com>, "PVRC"
>> > <pvrc@mailman.qth.net>
>> > Message-ID: <005c01c5e558$71860b20$0200a8c0@downstairs>
>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>> >
>> > Gents:
>> >
>> >      I just looked at the calendar and remembered that it was forty
>> > (!) years ago today that I passed my Novice Morse code test!  My
>> > Elmer, Harry Schaefer (callsign forgotten by me, sorry) of
>> Coaldale,
>> > PA had just given me my test at 5 WPM send and receive.  He then
>> > showed me his station - Hallicrafters receiver sitting on a large
>> > wooden desk in his attic and Globe King 500 Watt floor
>> rack-mounted AM
>> > and CW transmitter feeding a tuner and a dipole just outside his
>> > window (in the days before RF exposure rules!)
>> >
>> >      He tuned across a couple of QRQ stations in the low
>> end of 80M.
>> > Of course, I couldn't copy them and asked what they were saying.
>> > Harry cocked his head for a while, listening intently AND
>> COPYING IN
>> > HIS HEAD (My
>> > hero!)
>> > He said one Ham in Massachusetts asked another Ham in New
>> York state
>> > when the power came back on in New York.  The NY Ham said his town
>> > hadn't been affected by the power failure.  The next
>> morning I read in
>> > the paper about the Great Northeast Blackout of 1965.  (
>> > http://blackout.gmu.edu/events/tl1965.html .)
>> >
>> >      Since then we Hams, and the rest of American society, have
>> > witnessed momentous changes in electrotechnology.  In
>> commercial radio
>> > broadcasting, FM supplanted AM as the delivery method preferred by
>> > more in the listening audience.  The Carterphone decision
>> of the FCC
>> > in 1968 opened the way for interconnected devices such as
>> > phone-patches (remember when they were
>> > illegal?) and, ultimately, alternative carriers such as MCI, to
>> > connect to AT&T's telephone network.  We no longer hear, "The
>> > following program is brought to you in living color on NBC."
>> > Fiber-optic cables are now as ubiquitous as copper wires.
>> Television
>> > sets went from using external converters for tuning UHF channels to
>> > mandatory built-in tuners that covered up to channel 83 to
>> tuners that
>> > covered only up to channel 69 (the missing
>> > 14 channels had been assigned to something called "cellular
>> telephone"
>> > service.)  And my kids are texting each other on their own wireless
>> > telephone devices.  (Remember when Ham autopatching was all
>> the rage
>> > on
>> > VHF-FM?)  And computers in the home?  Only on The Jetsons.
>> >
>> >      Thanks for letting me wax nostalgic a bit today (not
>> that you had
>> > much of a choice, I suppose.)  I'm sure we all have similar
>> stories,
>> > but for me it's been an extremely enjoyable trip down this
>> path of Ham
>> > Radio.
>> >
>> >      Now if I could just work KL7 on Topband!
>> >
>> > 73 de
>> > Gene Smar  AD3F
>> >
>> _______________________________________________
>>
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>> 1-800-333-9041 with any questions and ask for Sherman, W2FLA.
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> Weather Stations", and lot's more.  Call Toll Free, 1-800-333-9041 with 
> any questions and ask for Sherman, W2FLA.
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