[SECC] [TowerTalk] Anniversary

[Dan/W4NTI]

Don't forget you could tune up the modulation by watching those 866a's 
wobulate.

Dan/W4NTI

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "K4SAV" <RadioIR at charter.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 2:36 PM
Subject: Re: [SECC] [TowerTalk] Anniversary


> Happy 40th Gene.
>
> Man, your memory is better than mine!  I do remember those things now
> that you mention it, but they were buried down in a forgotten memory
> location.
>
> While I was down there digging around, I also came across some records
> of the 11 meter ham band.  It dissappeared in 1958.
>
> I think one of the things I miss the most is the warm glow of the cherry
> red plates of  big transmitting tubes, and the cold blue glow of the big
> mercury vapor rectifiers, and the pink glow from the little gas
> regulator tubes.  In a dimmed room, they were spectacular.
>
> Jerry, K4SAV
>
> ersmar at comcast.net wrote:
>
>>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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>>
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