Subj : Re: HAM
To : ROY WITT
From : BRUCE WILSON
Date : Thu Jun 01 2000 08:31 am
On 31 May @ 05:20pm, Roy Witt wrote to Peter May:
RW> That's me. I used to be the technician/trustee for a local two
RW> meter club repeater and from there I went on to my own UHF
RW> repeater. It was and still is AFAIK, on top of a mountain just
RW> to the north of San Diego, called; Mt Palomar. We have a local
RW> publication here that you may have heard of, ComputerEdge; The
RW> computer guru who answers technical questions owns a cabin on
RW> that mountain and the guy to whom I sold the repeater, placed it
RW> in the basement of his cabin.
It seems now that ComputerEdge might've had a BBS which was one of
the many I called via PC Pursuit from the San Diego outdials?
RW> Very true. Not many who build these days.
It seems hams built their own equipment in the days when there
wasn't much difference between it and factory built, long before
printed circuits and LSICs, when everybody used tube sockets, tubes,
capacitors, resistors, and terminal strips, all individually wired
and soldered.
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