Subj : Re: XRF PROBLEMS
To : Allen Prunty
From : Ed Vance
Date : Sun Aug 07 2016 09:05 pm
08-06-16 23:59 Allen Prunty wrote to Ed Vance about Re: XRF PROBLEMS
Howdy! Allen,
AP> @MSGID: <
[email protected]>
-> 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.
AP> I never thought to ask her to file a claim on it. I was over there lr
AP> Dinner, we had company did not get to talk about her radio equipment.
I don't believe I ever chatted with Your Mom.
I looked through the W4MKJ 2 Meter call books I have here and couldn't see
anyone named McDonald in them to aid in my seeing if I talked with Your
GrandDad by seeing His Call Sign, but failed in my Search.
I hadn't thought to look for Your Mom in those books. HMMM Roundtuit....
AP> I went downstairs and looked the basement. The room was covered in
AP> about two inches of dust. No one has really been in there in years. I
AP> still have my old 286 in there and fired it up. Surprisingly an old
AP> incarnation of the LiveWire was on it... the old TBBS one.there was
AP> some way that I could extract the information. I could log on and read
AP> messages from 1988 to 1994.
Around 1988 is when I started logging on Tom Curries The Volunteer BBS.
I used a C=64 back then and wanted to learn about PC Compatiables.
In 1994 I got a 486 Built and shortly after that became a Tagline Thief.
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AP> What radio communication skills I have was with the Civil Air Patrol I
AP> have a VHF radio that can communicate with the CAP's frequency. They
AP> still use it... I can hear them on my scanner occasionally.
A friend told me of someone with the CAP who lived at 22nd and Bank Streets.
I worked at the Norman Theater on Portland Street, so one day I left a bit
early so I could visit the fellow.
He used a Gonset Communicator, which probably You did also.
I think CAP frequencies are just below the 6 Meter Ham Band?
-snip-
AP> A lot of her equipment is German... I noticed names like Grundig and
AP> Blaupunkt (Spelling not correct I am sure) I know from my performing
AP> arts she has a good microphone it's a Sennheiser (spelling not my best
AP> again).
When I was in the Navy I was aboard Ships on the Pacific side, never got
over to Europe.
In Sasebo, Japan I did see a TRIO HF Ham rig in a stores window.
In the 1970's I got a Kenwood XCVR that looked about like I saw in Sasebo.
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-> 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
ransmitter
-snip-
AP> Even though I went to YPAS for a while, my academic classes were at
AP> Dupont... they did not like the YPAS kids at all. Now they have made
AP> magnets for performing arts spread through the county. Valley has an
AP> acting magnet... PRP now has the choir magnet (Doss lost it) both and
AP> PRP got multi-million dollar auditoriums. Valley High school got a
AP> nice keyboard/piano lab too and a recording studio.
AP> I think the amatuer radio stuff is now at Fairdale with their Emergency
AP> Services magnet. They also haveradio classes at Shawnee where my
AP> cousin went for the Aviation Magnet.
O.K., Thanks.
-> 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.
AP> No that's Double Extra Large Tall :-) Being 6'3 used to be bean pole
AP> skinny. The Skinny ship has sailed.
I thought You were talking about clothing sizes but thought I'd keep my
comment on topic.
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-> 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?
AP> McDonald....
-> I bet I probably knowed of Him.
AP> Probably... My grandpa's name was Everett Clayton McDonald Sr.
Thanks, but as I said above, I can't recall talking to Him.
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AP> Seems like ham Radio was very popular in the East tennessee Mountains.
AP> If you talked with any of them would love to know.
Can't think that I have.
Thanks for the Family Info.
I'm the only Ham in my family.
73
... The city is not a concrete jungle. It is a human zoo.
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