Subj : Re: Storage
To : Holger Granholm
From : Mike Luther
Date : Sun Jul 20 2014 08:18 am
Hi Hol(y) Ham Man!
The more and more I hear the 'news' these days, the more it drills into me the
absolute positive relationship that Ham Radio has had on the whole human tribe.
Even, chuckle, if you go back to the beginning of that and think with
Re-Morse!
HG> The musical sound of a CQ is among the first letter combination you
HG> learn. There are however several different learning methods based on
HG> different theories. I'm not shure any more but IRC the course I started
HG> before being called in to military duty started with the EISH5 letters.
HG> I have never actually used a keyboard for sending even though I built
HG> one from a QST article to be used with my Sinclair ZX-81 computer but
HG> that one was succeeded by a CP/M computer and I never made another
HG> attempt to redesign or construct another keyboard.
Morse Code is, yes, a digital way of getting information from our brains across
even the whole world, chuckle. One of the most impressive moments of my life
as a kid was when I had extended my RF power on 40 meter CW from a 6L6 to an
807, then to an 811 and up to the first 4-250. It was in the dark hours back
in my shack room to the dark hours on the other of the Earth. Behind our garage
on a very quiet none noisy dark night I was being a bug boy with a good friend
of mine in Perth Australia. The conditions on 40 Meters were so good that
morning/evening both of us had S9 signals on each end. I was curious; how low
power could I go and he would still be able to hear me? We did a 'little'
experiment.
I started reducing my power and sending him the power level on CW and he'd come
back and tell me he could still hear me. Down, down, down it went. I was
STUNNED. It was a dark moon night; only starlight outside under my 40 meter
dipole up 30 feet in the air. I got down to ONE WATT output power.
HE COULD STILL HEAR ME!
Both of us were totally shocked! After we parted company in that QSO, I was so
stunned with what I had learned however I realized I'd better get ready for my
morning newspaper boy run on my Cushman Motor Scooter. I had to do that every
morning just to even have money to eat. As I walked out the door to go get
started on that, I had my five cell battery flashlight in my hand in the very
dark night. It hit me!
The wattage of that flashlight bulb was about one watt! I froze in my walk out
in the back yard, shaking. I looked up into the dark clear sky at the stars
and pointed the flashlight up into the sky. I pushed the button turn-on switch
on the light and sent Morse Code 'CQ" up into the sky toward Perth, looking at
how little up into the sky that one watt beam was able to go! That's as far as
a one watt beam could be seen in light? Yet a one watt beam on 40 meter CW
could be heard in Perth, Australia from College Station, Texas in the USA?
Then it really hit me! There really is something bigger than all of this on
this Earth, no matter what culture or tribe you belong to Mike.
But wait! If there were a thousand people even all over not
Austrailia but even out on the ocean of an many other countries
even THEY could hear me even with a ONE WATT communications
'Call-to-Quarters'. Even 'Call-to-Quarters-Distress'. Or SOS.
But Mike, not only for things of distress. Also as to how to hide not only a
few letters that took the place of words to reach out for help to even
thousands of people in maybe in need, from even a tiny force that nobody might
even understand of the power it had. So that I could continue even more toward
my purpose here on this Earth as I even knew from my family training and
actions even fron three or four years of age. To carry everyone upward I
encounter with the highest possible choice for decisions they make and never
poke folks in the side to lie, cheat and steal from them. Though it is
perfectly honest to make a fair profit on what you do in life.
And look where Ham Radio has gone now! BYOD, BFOM, plus all even bad this and
that, together with even encryption of letter codes that can be done even
though they look neat to unaware folksee's.
But interestingly, even Fido can still do a very important honorable job of
caring for people and carrying even all of us upward in life without poking
people in the side. Even back to ring level and interrupt level code that can
Dis And Dat even all over the whole Earth for thousands of people to hear in
good weather. At even a watt or two of power. From Ham Radio remote sites on
CW even on a few watts around the world. If you want it to. And the HAARP
ain't playing, chuckle. Or the Chemtrails ain't moosing the Ions around our
Sphere.
