Subj : Re: New Ham
To : Holger Granholm
From : Mike Luther
Date : Tue Jun 23 2015 06:55 am
Hi Sam!
There's also a third like and dis like to this, grin!
HG> The attraction of ham radio is that there are so meny different ways to
HG> enjoy the hobby. Some like constructing, some chatting in phone or CW,
HG> some enjoy contests, some chasing new countries, some fox hunting and
HG> what have you. There's something for everyone.
HG> 73 de Sam, OH0NC
HG> aka Holger
Back in 1955 or so when I had my Extra Class and was a high school kid here at
A&M Consolodated High School in College Station, Texas I was also more or less
a member of the Texas Aggie W5AC ham club that was in the original Memorial
Student Center there on the campus. They had a Fox Hunter Project and more or
less bet me that they could find me if I was the Fox no matter what. Hmmm. I
had already built the first color weather radar and more here at Texas A&M's
Oceanography and Meteorology Department under the mentorship of Dr. George
Huebner W5GDK, I 'bet' *NO*.
Well on Fox Hunter day, they lost the 'bet'!
I had access to the Lloyd family farm out near Wellborn, Texas that was
adjacent to the then IGN railroad line between College Station, Texas and
Navasota, Texas going toward Houston. I took my transmitter out over the Lloyd
ranch to the IGN railroad and spike climbed up the telephone pole to the
telegraph line adjacent to the railway, I attached a neat little small wire to
it capacitor coupled and fired up the Fox. There were lots of roads adjacent
to the rail line here and there including solid back near the College Station
town about six miles from where I coupled to the telegraph line. They tried
all day long over and over again to find the Fox! But *NEVER* could find it!
Amazing what a neat antenna can do here and there! And what even a simple
mobile transmitter can do in a moving car that can totally smash all wi-fi data
operations for just a few bucks that make the cloud a nasty bet you can use it
for hiding anything that people can't see today! But they don't want to talk
about for some reason, sigh.
Furious at FidoDog Mikey they were not happy to see me at club meetings after
that, chuckle. Oh well. Payback, grin! They were at that time using a BC610
high power transmitter at the club station in the Memorial Student Center. It
HORRIBLY created TVI on the Channel 2 TV station signal from Houston, Texas,
here about 90 miles away. And they had been blaming *ME* publically for
causing THEIR TVI that the neighborhood was FURIOUS about on CW, chortle!
Which I *DID NOT DO* at all! Even the nearby resident TV sets were clean with
me! I knew TV pretty well at that time as even the kid in high school here
that put in the first color television sets in all of Bryan and College Station
at 15 years of age working for a TV and Hi-FI shop to help pay for my food and
gas for my Model "A" Ford car with even then a mobile unit in it. Generator
powered even back then in that car.
So there there is yet a kind of a third pattern to what you describe in your
Fido message! As I was even mixed with the creation of Fido back then at 300
and 1000 baud modems!
Mike (MikeyDog) Luther as N117C at 1:117/100 and W5WQN
