Kim:

Ahhh, I think the old guys who used to have to worry about winding a filament
choke for an old tube PA are still worried. Indeed, there are probably some
around who remember when the filament used to be the cathode! Perhaps they
even worry more...

There eyes are not as good as they used to be, probably from trying to read
news papers from the purplish-bluish glow of gassy finals. Maybe they just
can't read the text here anymore.

Kim, don't you ever wonder who setup newsgroups for them on their computer,
isn't pretty obvious they could not? Who then, grandkids?

Some of these old guys probably even remember very old and ancient tubes, where
thorium was included into the filaments metal to increase electron emission,
and to "rejuvenate" the tube you would have to run the filament at an increased
voltage to over-heat and to get some of the thorium to come up to the surface.
Not long ago (decade or two) this was still being done on TV cathode ray tubes,
some oscilloscope crts could be rejuved the same way...

That was the lair of these old brass pounders, around equip and practices which
is now only found in museums--and old hams shacks...

Wonder a NC Tech (and a woman even!--with a "hard to pronounce
call!"--something like "Lake Titicaca?" grin) can survive here, don't they
tend to "use up all the air in room", leaving one wanting for outside and a
fresh breath of air?
grin

John

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Kim:

Well, there ya go, the only people you would consider fitting to converse
with have proven they are a ham to you. Of course, this is going to
rather limit your social skills and world quite a bit, wouldn't be
surprized if you don't know ALL ~300,000 by name (that might be an
over-estimate.) Don't worry, why you are there doing "ham sorting" the
world goes on, we will keep you abreast of the changes which have occured
while you have been engaged in you little diversion.

John


Not at all. I've never really paid any attention to whether someone has a
call or not. Doesn't matter to me one way or the other. I am just
surprised you haven't run into that on the newsgroup yet. From someone such
as...hmmm, trying to remember who that matters to, usually...Dave Heil, I
believe I've seen razzing Len for not being an amateur radio operator.
Others...but, was just wondering if it'd ever been an issue.

Oh, and then there's those who raz about people being annonymous, etc.
Guess you've not had that happen yet, either. Although, come to think of
it...there's not that many of the "regulars" who are communicating with
you... So maybe it's still an issue, just not as noticeable as it used to
be...

Kim W5TIT