On 20 Jul 2003 04:39:06 GMT, ospam (Larry Roll K3LT)
wrote:

John:

I see you live in Tonawanda, NY. I am a former Western New Yorker,
having been raised in the town of Alden. I wonder if you know my good
friend Pete Liaros, K2RSK?

Of course I do, he's very active on the airwaves in this area's 2m/440
repeaters and also operates mobile HF CW to boot. Also a fixture at
hamfests and the odd club meeting, too.

If so, next time you see him or talk to him
on a local repeater, let him know you know me and I'm sure he'll tell
you all about me and how we met on 10-meters over 20 years ago!

You can hook up with him on 40m CW of course, but if you really want
to surprise him, get EchoLink and pop onto the WB2JPQ interlink system
here in western NY. Dick has his 146.835 machine connected to the
Echolink network. That machine's part of a system of linked repeaters
that covers most of this end of the state (from the Pennsylvania line
to well east of Rochester...farther when the temperature inversions
along the south shore of Lake Ontario duct the signals from the
Rochester area machine up into the Watertown area), and Pete is
frequently on one of the linked machines, when he isn't on the BARRA
link system chatting with Ted, WA2HKS.

Whenever I visit in the WNY area, I try to have breakfast with Peter --
pehaps you could join us sometime!

Then there is the matter of that roast beef sandwich you still have
coming...though I suppose if you'd prefer a comparably priced
breakfast...

Shoot for a Tuesday or Wednesday morning. Those are my two days off
work. Other days I work from 5AM to 1:30PM, so unless you're into
eating really late breakfasts, or want to make it lunch instead
(sending us back into roast beef territory)...........

73 DE John, KC2HMZ

In article , Radio Amateur KC2HMZ
writes:

John:

I see you live in Tonawanda, NY. I am a former Western New Yorker,
having been raised in the town of Alden. I wonder if you know my good
friend Pete Liaros, K2RSK?

Of course I do, he's very active on the airwaves in this area's 2m/440
repeaters and also operates mobile HF CW to boot. Also a fixture at
hamfests and the odd club meeting, too.

John:

Yes, indeed. I was one of the first to see the nifty HF antenna mount he
got made for his '94 Mercury Grand Marquis. I think we had breakfast the
day after it was done. I saw him last fall, and he still had that car!

If so, next time you see him or talk to him
on a local repeater, let him know you know me and I'm sure he'll tell
you all about me and how we met on 10-meters over 20 years ago!

You can hook up with him on 40m CW of course, but if you really want
to surprise him, get EchoLink and pop onto the WB2JPQ interlink system
here in western NY. Dick has his 146.835 machine connected to the
Echolink network. That machine's part of a system of linked repeaters
that covers most of this end of the state (from the Pennsylvania line
to well east of Rochester...farther when the temperature inversions
along the south shore of Lake Ontario duct the signals from the
Rochester area machine up into the Watertown area), and Pete is
frequently on one of the linked machines, when he isn't on the BARRA
link system chatting with Ted, WA2HKS.

I'll have to check that EchoLink thing out. All I know about it is how to
spell it. I occasionally E-mail to Pete, but he doesn't seem to read his
mail that often, or reply, for that matter.

Whenever I visit in the WNY area, I try to have breakfast with Peter --
pehaps you could join us sometime!

Then there is the matter of that roast beef sandwich you still have
coming...though I suppose if you'd prefer a comparably priced
breakfast...

Breakfast or lunch, it matters not to me! A Beef on Weck and a glass
of Genny would be a great way to enjoy some ham camaraderie.

Shoot for a Tuesday or Wednesday morning. Those are my two days off
work. Other days I work from 5AM to 1:30PM, so unless you're into
eating really late breakfasts, or want to make it lunch instead
(sending us back into roast beef territory)...........

OK, great. Like I said before, my next visit to the WNY area will
most likely be over the Thanksgiving holiday, if I can manage to take
some personal days off. I've pretty much given up on being home
for Christmas, due to the tendency to be forced to spend an
inordinate amount of time behind the snow blower! If I were to
ever move again, I think I'd just go to various places and walk
around carrying a snow shovel. As soon as someone asked me,
"What the heck is THAT?" -- I'd stop!

73 de Larry, K3LT

On 22 Jul 2003 05:47:23 GMT, ospam (Larry Roll K3LT)
wrote in regards to mutual acquaintance K2RSK

Yes, indeed. I was one of the first to see the nifty HF antenna mount he
got made for his '94 Mercury Grand Marquis. I think we had breakfast the
day after it was done. I saw him last fall, and he still had that car!

Last time I saw him (this summer) he was driving it down I-290 East
just before the I-90 split, chatting with someone on the WNYDXA
repeater and wondering who he'd just passed with four antennas on top
of a van (which was me). :-)

I'll have to check that EchoLink thing out. All I know about it is how to
spell it. I occasionally E-mail to Pete, but he doesn't seem to read his
mail that often, or reply, for that matter.

John Taylor, K1RFD, created it. Its use is limited to licensed radio
amateurs only. You can download it, entirely for free, at the
following website:

http://www.echolink.org

Echolink uses voice-over-IP. You can use your computer and Internet
connection to get a repeater anywhere in the world if that repeater is
linked in via the Internet. Ham stations, including repeaters in
different parts of the world can be linked via Echolink as well. As an
example, I've talked to a ham in California using my 2m mobile rig
while driving downthe road here in New York. The repeater I was on was
connected to Echolink at the time, and so was the repeater in
California that the other ham was using.

You can also set up a link on your station at home (on a simplex
frequency) and use your handheld to access the link.

You might expect no-code Techs to gravitate to this as a means of
contacting DX without HF privileges - and they do - but many longtime
hams with HF privileges use it too, particularly guys that have
retired and moved away and use Echolink to keep in touch with the
locals from "back home" - especially true of guys who are now living
in condos down in Florida and aren't permitted to erect HF antennas.

Breakfast or lunch, it matters not to me! A Beef on Weck and a glass
of Genny would be a great way to enjoy some ham camaraderie.

I might opt for a soft drink instead of the Genny, but other than that
it sounds good to me. Be sure and let me know ahead of time next time
you plan to head up this way, and we'll plan a get-together.

(For those not familiar with Western new York culture, Genny is a
locally brewed beer that's quite popular in these here parts)

OK, great. Like I said before, my next visit to the WNY area will
most likely be over the Thanksgiving holiday, if I can manage to take
some personal days off.

Better yet! Gives me a perfect excuse to eat something besides turkey.
I like turkey, but usually have had more than enough of it by
Saturday.

I've pretty much given up on being home
for Christmas, due to the tendency to be forced to spend an
inordinate amount of time behind the snow blower!

Snow blower!? You ain't a "real" Western New Yorker! If you were,
you'd use a shovel like they used to do a hundred years ago. It's
still a perfectly efficient and viable means of snow removal. Anybody
who uses a snow blower is just plain lazy. :-)

If I were to
ever move again, I think I'd just go to various places and walk
around carrying a snow shovel. As soon as someone asked me,
"What the heck is THAT?" -- I'd stop!

Just make sure the guy who asks is a local resident and not some
tourist from somewhere in the Mojave Desert who's just visiting! Or
one of those lazy types who's just interested in clearing the driveway
and has never even owned a shovel like a "real" Western New Yorker.

73 DE John, KC2HMZ

Radio Amateur KC2HMZ wrote in message . ..
On 22 Jul 2003 05:47:23 GMT, ospam (Larry Roll K3LT)

Breakfast or lunch, it matters not to me! A Beef on Weck and a glass
of Genny would be a great way to enjoy some ham camaraderie.

I might opt for a soft drink instead of the Genny, but other than that
it sounds good to me. Be sure and let me know ahead of time next time
you plan to head up this way, and we'll plan a get-together.

(For those not familiar with Western new York culture, Genny is a
locally brewed beer that's quite popular in these here parts)

Rochester, to be exact. Gawd, I miss that stuff. Red hots, beef on a
weck, real wings.....

If you get to Rochester or Syracuse, check out Dinosaur BBQ.

Snow blower!? You ain't a "real" Western New Yorker! If you were,
you'd use a shovel like they used to do a hundred years ago. It's
still a perfectly efficient and viable means of snow removal. Anybody
who uses a snow blower is just plain lazy. :-)

Damn straight. ;-)

I still have and use my shovel from Palmyra/Newark days. Just the
right size for the car trunk, snow slips right off, eay on the back.

If I were to
ever move again, I think I'd just go to various places and walk
around carrying a snow shovel. As soon as someone asked me,
"What the heck is THAT?" -- I'd stop!

Reworking of old Navy story about a sailor with an oar...

Just make sure the guy who asks is a local resident and not some
tourist from somewhere in the Mojave Desert who's just visiting! Or
one of those lazy types who's just interested in clearing the driveway
and has never even owned a shovel like a "real" Western New Yorker.

Ayup. Or who thinks "lake effect" has something to do with a
California basketball team...

73 de Jim, N2EY

N2EY wrote:
Radio Amateur KC2HMZ wrote in message . ..

On 22 Jul 2003 05:47:23 GMT, ospam (Larry Roll K3LT)


Breakfast or lunch, it matters not to me! A Beef on Weck and a glass
of Genny would be a great way to enjoy some ham camaraderie.

I might opt for a soft drink instead of the Genny, but other than that
it sounds good to me. Be sure and let me know ahead of time next time
you plan to head up this way, and we'll plan a get-together.

(For those not familiar with Western new York culture, Genny is a
locally brewed beer that's quite popular in these here parts)


Rochester, to be exact. Gawd, I miss that stuff. Red hots, beef on a
weck, real wings.....

If you get to Rochester or Syracuse, check out Dinosaur BBQ.


Something tells me that I'm stepping into a henway, but what is beef on
a weck?

- Mike KB3EIA -

In article , Mike Coslo writes:

Rochester, to be exact. Gawd, I miss that stuff. Red hots, beef on a
weck, real wings.....

If you get to Rochester or Syracuse, check out Dinosaur BBQ.


Something tells me that I'm stepping into a henway, but what is beef on

a weck?

A truly excellent sandwich. Roast beef on a kemmelweck roll (a type of round
roll properly made only in the region, just as true hoagie rolls are only made
by Amoroso).

--

I may have told this one before, but years ago I was in North Tonawanda as part
of a project for work. February, of course, and of course that particular job
involved lots of time out-of-doors. Some vendors took us to lunch at the place
where wings allegedly were invented. One of the vendors salesfolk made the
mistake of saying "you can't make 'em too hot and spicy for me". The restaurant
staff proved him wrong.

73 de Jim, N2EY

On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 08:08:52 -0400, Mike Coslo wrote:


Something tells me that I'm stepping into a henway, but what is beef on
a weck?

A sandwich consisting of sliced roast beef on a kimmel weck roll. Back
in the days BC (before chicken wings), beef on weck was the delicacy
of choice around here.

73 DE John, KC2HMZ

In article , Mike Coslo writes:


Something tells me that I'm stepping into a henway, but what is beef on

a weck?

Mike:

These days, probably about $4.95, plus drink, tax, and tip. More specifically,
it's thin-sliced roast beef on a Küemmelweck roll. Very tasty with some
extra-sharp horseradish and a nice big dill pickle on the side!

73 de Larry, K3LT

(N2EY) wrote in message . com...
Radio Amateur KC2HMZ wrote in message . ..

Snow blower!? You ain't a "real" Western New Yorker! If you were,
you'd use a shovel like they used to do a hundred years ago. It's
still a perfectly efficient and viable means of snow removal. Anybody
who uses a snow blower is just plain lazy. :-)

Damn straight. ;-)

I still have and use my shovel from Palmyra/Newark days. Just the
right size for the car trunk, snow slips right off, eay on the back.

NyukNyukNyuk...

Here in SE Tennessee we use snow shovels as talismen against
anyone who would dare bring snow here!

73

Steve, K4YZ