[TowerTalk] Anniversary

[Tod]

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 at contesting.com 
> [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of 
> ersmar at comcast.net
> Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 4:40 PM
> To: Reicher, James; towertalk at 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 at comcast.net>
> > Subject: [TowerTalk] Anniversary
> > To: <topband at contesting.com>, <towertalk at contesting.com>,	"PVRC"
> > 	<pvrc at mailman.qth.net>
> > Message-ID: <005c01c5e558$71860b20$0200a8c0 at 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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