Jim,
That is great! I gotta remember that one...
73, Ted K2QMF
On Wed, 09 Nov 2005 23:40:25 +0000 ersmar@comcast.net writes:
> 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>
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> >
> > 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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