CW & HF Licensing

[Jerry Fray]

> > 
> Watch out!  the next safety push will force the fcc to agree
> that lead in solder is hazerdous and every ham using it will
> have to file an environmental impact statement including
> disposal plans for waste and sample procedures to make sure
> they aren't contaminating the neighborhood.
 
Ouch! Forget abt the FCC on this one, just don't let the EPA hear abt
it!

-73-
Jerry KB9NMU

>From cooper at gmpvt.com (Tom Cooper)  Fri Aug 23 20:02:51 1996
From: cooper at gmpvt.com (Tom Cooper) (Tom Cooper)
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 15:02:51 -0400
Subject: New 160 meter contest rules
Message-ID: <199608231902.PAA28422 at web.gmpvt.com>

This may be a "contest", but the inclusion of power and distance points 
in the scoring makes it into a different test of skill, I hope, than the
normal type event.  Since it IS a party given in W1BB's honor, how about 
sending 000 instead of 599 if you have to send the same boring thing each 
time.  That way we can all find out how well we really are getting out,
which is what many hams used to be concerned with before it all got so easy. 
  
Who can work the mostest who are farthest with the leastest on our TOP band?

73,

Tom WA1GUV  
 


>From needhame at 3lefties.com (Earl Needham, KD5XB, in Clovis, NM)  Fri Aug 23 22:29:32 1996
From: needhame at 3lefties.com (Earl Needham, KD5XB, in Clovis, NM) (Earl Needham, KD5XB, in Clovis, NM)
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 14:29:32 -0700
Subject: How to find out your gird square simply...
Message-ID: <BMSMTP8408356970needhame at server.3lefties.com>


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>  From: kchen at apple.com (Kok Chen), on 8/23/96 11:00 AM:
>  Has anyone mentioned the Buckmaster web site yet?
>  (http://www.buck.com/cgi-bin/do_hamcall)
>  
>  As I recall, you get a gridsquare when you query a U.S. callsign
>  on Buckmaster.

	One "problem" (undocumented feature?) I've noticed with Buckmaster, it
gives you the grid square for you mailing address.  Not a problem, unless you
get your mail at a post office...

7 3
Earl Needham, KD5XB, in Clovis, NM  (DM84)
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Pi Chi '76
Have you really jumped ROUND PARACHUTES? (Overheard at the Clovis Parachute
Center)

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>From nt5c at easy.com (John Warren)  Fri Aug 23 21:44:30 1996
From: nt5c at easy.com (John Warren) (John Warren)
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 15:44:30 -0500
Subject: Stew Perry, W1BB
Message-ID: <1371307437-19808067 at BANJO.EASY.COM>

All this talk of a new 160M contest brings back memories.

My XYL and I emigrated from the UK to the United States in 1957, to the
Boston area. At that time I was an avid amateur-band SWL. I can't remember
the exact circumstances that brought it about, but very early in our stay
here we found ourselves as guests of Stew and his XYL Alice at their home
in Winthrop.

It was an awesome evening. I can still remember those 160M wire antennas
spread across roads and all over the neighborhood! How he managed to get
away with that I'll never know. Right now I'm sitting here looking at a
photo that Stew took of a very young SWL sitting in the shack, surrounded
by 75A-somethings, an HRO, and goodness knows what else. On the back it
says "73 to John and Betty, de W1BB and W1DQF, Alice and Stew, Nov 1957".

In addition to his well-documented and virtually unique skills, W1BB was a
most gracious and generous person - a classic "Elmer". I think it would be
a super idea for you to honor his memory by naming a new 160M contest after
him.

John, NT5C.