Subj : Re: XRF PROBLEMS
To : Allen Prunty
From : Ed Vance
Date : Sat Aug 06 2016 12:55 pm
08-04-16 15:36 Allen Prunty wrote to Ed Vance about Re: XRF PROBLEMS
Howdy! Allen,
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AP> Re: Re: XRF PROBLEMS
AP> By: Ed Vance to Allen Prunty on Sun Jul 31 2016 11:00 pm
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EV> What is Your Mom's First Name?, I may have heard Her on 2 Meters.
AP> Her First Name was Anna
Thanks, I can't remember speaking to any one named Anna on the air.
AP> Last names of course were Prunty (Dad exited the scene when I was 6)
AP> then my first Stepdad's last name was Lents and we lost him during the
AP> first Iraq war... then the last stepdad was Helmick and we lost him in
AP> 2006, heart attack.
AP> With my illnesses, mom does not have time much to enjoy anything. She
AP> still is on the CB every now and then and uses the handle Dixie Doodle.
I was 16 in June 1958 when I got my Novice License in the mail.
IIRC, the Citizens Band Radio Service began in September 1958.
If I had wanted to be a CB'er, I would had had to wait two years to apply
for a CB License since I wasn't 18 years old.
I never submitted a form to the F.C.C. to operate a CB set, because I
have continued taking Tests to upgrade to a higher Amateur Radio Class,
and have keep remembering to Renew my License on time.
I'll have to renew again in October 2017.
AP> Unfortunately her big antenna was ruined in the storm that was the
AP> remnants of Hurricane Ike when it blew through here. Since I became
AP> disabled I can't put it back up for her and she's 70... not able to do
AP> it herself.
The Mast on my 2 Meter Beam bent over during a storm and my homeowners
insurance paid a company to replace the Mast.
They used Water Pipe as a Mast instead of the Radio Shack antenna tubing I
had used.
EV> I was on 2 Meters from November 1976 to around 2010.
EV> Earlier, when I was a Novice in 1958, Al Hall K4CSH came down on 3720 Kc/s
EV> and talked to a few of us around Louisville to restart the Kentucky Novice
EV> Net, and later when I was a General I was on the Kentucky C.W. Net (KYN)
EV> on 3600 Kc/s.
AP> I will have to talk with her about it during next week's iv treatment.
EV> I also used a Heathkit Sixer but quit using it when a neighbor said I was
EV> heard on their T.V. Set.
EV> I didn't want to mess up the T.V. shows they watched, so I quit using it.
AP> Mom would have went over there and fixed their antenna :-) back in the
AP> day she was able to do things like that and getting on a roof didn't
AP> bother her. We were the wierd family in the neighborhood when we had
AP> roof damage we put a new roof on our house ourselves. We did Dave
AP> Ramsey before Dave Ramsey did Dave Ramsey's money program.
When my neighbor watched a show on WAVE TV Channel 3 (60-66 mc/s) my Sixer
on 50 mc/s came through Loud And Clear, something a TV Antenna Filter
couldn't fix.
Typing that reminded me of the Ham Shack at duPont Manual High School had
to stop making QSO's on 15 Meters and changed the Coils in their Transmitter
from 15 Meters to the 20 Meter Coils because a near by home used an older
Television Set with an I.F. frequency of 21 mc/s and every time the Ham
Shack transmitted on 15 Meters the people would call the School and
complain that they couldn't watch T.V. when the Students were on the air.
EV> 73 de Ed W9ODR, ex KN4ZIQ, K4ZIQ and WA9WSB . .
AP> I guess mine would be 2XLT :-)
When I saw 2XLT I picked up a book printed in 1964 that has a A.R.R.L.
Countries List.
The first Amateur Radio Prefix that started with a number in that list
is Morroco - 3A .
I don't have a current country list of prefixes to know what Country has
Call Signs that started with 2X , but I never tried to earn a DXCC
Certificate, so I'm just familiar with U.S. Prefixes W, K, N and A might
also be a Amateur Radio Prefix.
I also know VE Stations are in Canada and VK'ers are in Australia and
Stations in Great Britin have a G Prefix.
I don't know it all, but still working on that.
Before I started to write this message I saw in another post that You said
Your Mom's Dad also operated a Ham Radio Station.
What was His Last Name?
I bet I probably knowed of Him.
Thanks, 73 . .
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