Celebrations !!!!
 

I took my foundation license and morse exam to-day, and both were
sucessful.
All I have to do now is to: choose a transceiver - choose a tuner - choose
an antenna - find someone to errect it - get a log book - and I'm sure there
are lot's of other things ..... Anyway .... now I've shared my excitement
with you all - I feel much better.
John in Cornwall UK

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 00:12:00 +0000 (UTC), "Simon Smith"
wrote:

I took my foundation license and morse exam to-day, and both were
sucessful.

Congratulations John.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

Congrats, and enjoy--- but as a thread of a couple days ago reminded --
( You have been warned ), just remember , to quote: "WE ARE ALL NUTS"
:) Best-- Jim NN7K

Simon Smith wrote:
I took my foundation license and morse exam to-day, and both were
sucessful.
All I have to do now is to: choose a transceiver - choose a tuner - choose
an antenna - find someone to errect it - get a log book - and I'm sure there
are lot's of other things ..... Anyway .... now I've shared my excitement
with you all - I feel much better.
John in Cornwall UK

"Jim - NN7K" wrote in message
. com...
Congrats, and enjoy--- but as a thread of a couple days ago reminded --
( You have been warned ), just remember , to quote: "WE ARE ALL NUTS"
:) Best-- Jim NN7K

Simon Smith wrote:
I took my foundation license and morse exam to-day, and both were
sucessful.
All I have to do now is to: choose a transceiver - choose a tuner -
choose an antenna - find someone to errect it - get a log book - and I'm
sure there are lot's of other things ..... Anyway .... now I've shared my
excitement with you all - I feel much better.
John in Cornwall UK
But this nut, when he was 14, April 1964, took the bus from Waco to Dallas,
walked to the Federal Building, took the 13 WPM test and the written.
Nailed them both.
1964
So there.
73
H.

Oh yeah, welcome to the club.

Simon Smith wrote:
I took my foundation license and morse exam to-day, and both were
sucessful.
All I have to do now is to: choose a transceiver - choose a tuner - choose
an antenna - find someone to errect it - get a log book - and I'm sure there
are lot's of other things ..... Anyway .... now I've shared my excitement
with you all - I feel much better.
John in Cornwall UK



Foundation license? Which is that????

Simon, good luck to you, and you should spend more time on the air than
you spend here. Get away from this web site - the rec.radio.amateur.*
newsgroups are mostly counter-productive. You will find people here
who, well, don't get on the air (I don't know how else to say it).

You should go work CW, work voice, spend some time on SSTV, and then on
PSK, and try some of the funky digital modes, and of course, do some
SSB, but make it so much fun that you can't even explain to your friends
why you spend every weekend doing it.

You will see -- it's the best hobby you have ever picked.

Take care, and all the best, and 73

Dave
kz1o

Dave Bushong wrote:

Simon Smith wrote:

I took my foundation license and morse exam to-day, and both were
sucessful.
All I have to do now is to: choose a transceiver - choose a tuner -
choose an antenna - find someone to errect it - get a log book - and
I'm sure there are lot's of other things ..... Anyway .... now I've
shared my excitement with you all - I feel much better.
John in Cornwall UK


Foundation license? Which is that????

British...

Congratulations Simon. Hope to see you on the air someday.

Dave WD9BDZ



Simon, good luck to you, and you should spend more time on the air than
you spend here. Get away from this web site - the rec.radio.amateur.*
newsgroups are mostly counter-productive. You will find people here
who, well, don't get on the air (I don't know how else to say it).

You should go work CW, work voice, spend some time on SSTV, and then on
PSK, and try some of the funky digital modes, and of course, do some
SSB, but make it so much fun that you can't even explain to your friends
why you spend every weekend doing it.

You will see -- it's the best hobby you have ever picked.

Take care, and all the best, and 73

Dave
kz1o

H. Adam Stevens, NQ5H wrote:
"Jim - NN7K" wrote in message
. com...
Congrats, and enjoy--- but as a thread of a couple days ago
reminded --
( You have been warned ), just remember , to quote: "WE ARE ALL
NUTS"
:) Best-- Jim NN7K

Simon Smith wrote:
I took my foundation license and morse exam to-day, and both were

sucessful.
All I have to do now is to: choose a transceiver - choose a tuner
-
choose an antenna - find someone to errect it - get a log book -
and I'm
sure there are lot's of other things ..... Anyway .... now I've
shared my
excitement with you all - I feel much better.
John in Cornwall UK

Get on the air and enjoy, Simon!

But this nut, when he was 14, April 1964, took the bus from Waco to
Dallas,
walked to the Federal Building, took the 13 WPM test and the written.
Nailed them both.
1964
So there.

This raving looney & class nerd hiked uphill both ways in a raging
blizzard to the Old Customhouse in Philly and passed the 5wpm Novice
thing 1953. Follwed shortly by the same trek for the 13wpm test for the
General. Thought I had it made for life and that I'd seen the last of
those squinty-eyed FCC examiners. But, nah, they reshuffled the deck
and "invited me back" in 1968 to take the 20wpm Extra. Figgered that
since we were getting snowed in I also took/passed the Second
Radiotelegraph to kill some time . .

.. . . (so there) . . ?
73
H.

w3rv


Oh yeah, welcome to the club.

Golly let me take exception Dave

The newsgroups - particularly this one is a great Amateur Radio asset --
many knowledgeable antenna gurus here.
Many technical questions and answers are fielded on the NG's every day.

Yes NGs are free and open forums -- so you will find many junk posts, but
weed thru them and there is really some good stuff.

As for being on the air -- anyone on HF will know that "A foundation
License" has been issued in the UK since January 2002
See URL:
http://www.rsgb.org/beginners/licences.htm

Many many folks on the NGs are on the air frequently -- see
rec.radio.amateur.dx or the digital or satellite groups

Anyway congratulations are in order for John in Cornwell.

Dave gave you some great ideas for modes of operation and I agree "You will
see -- it's the best hobby you have ever picked."

Welcome to Ham Radio

73, Happy Holidays, and enjoy the many facets of Amateur Radio

--
The Modulator In The USA -- RF Gotta Go Somewhere



"Dave Bushong" wrote in message
...
Simon Smith wrote:
I took my foundation license and morse exam to-day, and both were
sucessful.
All I have to do now is to: choose a transceiver - choose a tuner -
choose an antenna - find someone to errect it - get a log book - and I'm
sure there are lot's of other things ..... Anyway .... now I've shared my
excitement with you all - I feel much better.
John in Cornwall UK

Foundation license? Which is that????

Simon, good luck to you, and you should spend more time on the air than
you spend here. Get away from this web site - the rec.radio.amateur.*
newsgroups are mostly counter-productive. You will find people here who,
well, don't get on the air (I don't know how else to say it).

You should go work CW, work voice, spend some time on SSTV, and then on
PSK, and try some of the funky digital modes, and of course, do some SSB,
but make it so much fun that you can't even explain to your friends why
you spend every weekend doing it.

You will see -- it's the best hobby you have ever picked.

Take care, and all the best, and 73

Dave
kz1o

John

Congrats and "Good-on-ya".

Hope you get everything you wish for and once set up we can have a nice
chat on the air on SSB, CW, PSK31, whatever.

K7SAM

Well done Simon

Cheers Bob VK2YQA

Simon Smith wrote:
I took my foundation license and morse exam to-day, and both were
sucessful.
All I have to do now is to: choose a transceiver - choose a tuner - choose
an antenna - find someone to errect it - get a log book - and I'm sure there
are lot's of other things ..... Anyway .... now I've shared my excitement
with you all - I feel much better.
John in Cornwall UK