Hi All,
I learned years ago that "Age is more about attitude than a number"
Larry K7MI
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Osborne" <w7why@verizon.net>
To: "Towertalk" <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 6:58 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Anniversary
> 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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> >> "Wireless 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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