In article ,
(Vshah101) writes:

I just found some long time ago report I wrote on essential education.(It was
long before I got an amateur radio licence or knew that there was such a
thing). Surprising, among other things, I wrote that I wanted to learn Morse
code. Never was obcessed about it. In fact, I forgot I even wrote that. At
that
time, I just believed that its something one should learn.

I no longer believe that.

Well, Vipul, you just hold on to that belief. It will save you the time and
effort required to learn a useful communications skill.

73 de Larry, K3LT

In article , Radio Amateur KC2HMZ
writes:

Oh, you mean like "disconnecting" antenna rotor control boxes with a
pair of dikes? Yes, indeed.

Is that how you highly technical CW ops handle it? Wow, I'll have to
suggest that to our ops next year...NOT!

John:

Actually, it's not as bad an idea as it sounds. We do it that way because
we leave the color-coded wire ends on the control box terminals, making
it easy to duplicate the setup the next time. Wiring charts tend to get
lost. Now, if only I could figure out a way to make my technically-
inclined fellow hams stop putting 3-element HF Yagi antennas together
with the director and reflector elements reversed! And don't suggest
that I number the elements and boom 1,2,3…that doesn't seem to cut
any ice with them!

12 hours to set up, 2 to tear down!

Amazing what you can do when gravity is working in your favor rather
than against you, isn't it? That wire that took six shots with a
slingshot to get over just the right tree branch comes down on the
*first* try when you cut the rope, almost as if by magic!

Yup, it sure does! And some idiot usually manages to get whacked by
the balun when it does -- which is why we pass out the hard hats!

Fortunately, I'm not that hard on my own equipment, just a bit
unmotivated to get the station set back up for at least a month after
Field Day.

Most of my FD stuff is still in my van. However, since that's where it
also spends most of the rest of the year, that's no problem. Still, I
could stand to do some tidying up in the rear cargo area.

Well, the living room of my apartment is my computer room/ham
shack. Trust me, even on my better days, I'll never be called to do a
photo spread for Better Homes and Gardens! Then again, I would
have a bit of a hard time competing for QST's "Messy ham shack"
contest!

Since I run the digital mode station for my club, I have
to take not only my radios, but my whole bloody computer system
as well.

Sorry to break it to you now rather than before Field Day, OM, but
there now exist these wonderful little devices called laptop
computers. For that matter you can do some digital stuff with a Palm
handheld computer. Want a quick hundred bonus points next year? Get
somebody to load the APRS software on a Palm and mate it to their HT,
and demo APRS. I think there's also PSK31 software for the Palm.

I've been using personal computers virtually since the day after they
were invented, and never owned a laptop! One of my fellow club
members brought some badly clapped-out used laptops to FD this year
for logging purposes, and out of four, we got one working! Last year,
our club President got his brand-new Dell laptop toasted, we don't
know if it was a power surge or stray RF, but the darn thing never
came back to life, and Dell couldn't fix it! For a lot of reasons, the
traditional desktop systems seem to work better and tolerate a lot
more rough handling than laptops. I made one concession, however,
and purchased a flat-panel monitor, which is much more easily
transported than my old 17" CRT monitor, which I gave away to my
YL friend when hers went South.

BTW, don't try it at night unless you're good with the Palm graffitti.
Typing on that little Palm "keyboard" at a FD station at 3:00 in the
morning is bound to make your eye doctor independently wealthy. Been
there, done that, bought the t-shirt, later burned the t-shirt. :-)

I prefer full-sized keyboards, since I'm something of an accomplished
typist. At home, I use the best keyboard available -- a Northgate
OmniKey Ultra, which I purchased in 1990 and is still going strong.
It has the same key size, placement, weight, and stroke as the old-
fashioned IBM Selectric typewriter keyboard. It has other features
like programmable function keys, and F-keys both across the top and
down the left side of the main keyboard. For FD, however, I just
bring the OEM cheapie that came with my computer. At FD sites,
things tend to get spilled.

Fortunately, that's the easiest thing to return to functional
normalcy at the home QTH. Can't be missing out on rrap now, can I?

Well, I managed to live without it for about four years, but then
again, here I am back again.

Hmmm. I don't seem to remember you from four years ago, but then
again, I don't remember what I had for lunch!

73 de Larry, K3LT

In article , "Ryan, KC8PMX"
writes:

Okay, thanks Larry, just wanted to clarify that.

One last other question, define "whining." Is that anything that you just
don't want to hear, or ?? Again, I am asking this actually seriously, not
fecetiously (sp.?) At least I am attempting to see your side of
it............

One could view anything that they don't wanna hear as whining, and if thats
the case I hear thousands of "whining words" on a daily basis.

Ryan:

I would define "whining" as "shrill, uncontrolled complaint, usually made on
a topic of concern to the individual making the complaint, but without any
particular basis for objection other than the subject in question is a matter
which the individual feels powerless to control, or chooses not to control
by virtue of the personal effort or expense involved. The "whining" is usually
directed at a person or organization the "whiner" considers to be responsible
for the situation to which the "whiner" objects.

I will admit that most mature, hard-working, industrious and ingenious people
definitely "don't want to hear" whining. For example, I certainly didn't
appreciate being accused of being like Hitler, and in favor of things like
"ethnic cleansing" because I supported the concept of code testing in the ARS.
I truly could have done without hearing that, to be sure! For one thing, it
quite possibly could have spared me the time I've spent on Usenet in the
last 14 years.

73 de Larry, K3LT

In article , "Dan/W4NTI"
writes:

Doing CW at around 28 wpm is like talking to a Southerner. Layed back.

Laid back, very courteous and mannerly, much gets said without a lot of words.

73 de Jim, N2EY

"Vshah101" wrote in message
...
From: "Dan/W4NTI"

Wierdness always attracts attention. That's why at the circus, the
line to get in and see the three-legged lady is longer than the line
to get in and see the dancing girls.

73 DE John, KC2HMZ


I always prefered a good looking girl to a three legged freak myself.

You will not likely see a good looking girl if you spend too much time in
Ham
radio. You definately won't hear/see one if you operate CW.

You have no concept of reality at all do you Vboy? I have met some stone
fox knock outs at hamfests, on the air, married and single.

I really enjoy meeting XYL's or YLs on the radio. It is a true pleasure
hearing a female voice on the air.

As for females on CW ... wrong again. I know several serious female CW ops.
Im not going to put out calls here, because I really dont want to see them
insulted by gutless male pigs.

Dan/W4NTI

On 24 Jul 2003 03:28:03 GMT, ospam (Larry Roll K3LT)
wrote:

In article , "Kim W5TIT"
writes:


Larry doesn't know we read between the lines...LOL

Kim W5TIT

Kim:

I don't know how your newsreader works, but here on good 'ole AOL 5.0,
what I see "between the lines" is about 1/16" of blank screen!

Larry, I told you four years ago: AOL sucks. What part of that didn't
you understand? :-)

To everyone
else who isn't wasting their time reading "between the lines,"

I don't think it's a waste of time at all. Often, what a person does
NOT say is as important as what they DO say.

I assure
you that the meaning contained within my postings is always going to be
right where you have come to expect it to be

Out in left field somewhere?

-- WITHIN the lines.

Oh. Never mind, then.

BTW -- your capacity for making a fool of yourself is seemingly endless,
Kim. Why is that?

She made the comment in a reply to a post of mine. Her comment pointed
out an instance in one of your posts where you expressed displeasure
with NCTAs who you perceive as thinking you aren't entitled to your
opinion, then two paragraphs later you insist that NCTAs aren't
qualified to form *their* opinions - thereby committing the same foul
you were whistling the NCTAs for. I understood her perfectly.
Apparently, you did not. Now, kiss and make up. Go ahead. You know you
want to. LOL

73 DE John, KC2HMZ

"Brian" wrote in message
om...
(N2EY) wrote in message
...
In article , "Dan/W4NTI"
writes:

Doing CW at around 28 wpm is like talking to a Southerner. Layed back.

Laid back, very courteous and mannerly, much gets said without a lot of
words.

73 de Jim, N2EY

I get a completely different mental picture when Larry describes
someone with a Southern accent.

I wonder if Kim has a Southern accent.

I am told by my friends up North when I go back there that I have a Southern
accent. I do not hear it, and all the folks down here in Texas say I have a
Yankee accent. So, I must be in between, but I sure don't hear a Southern
accent. I *do* use the phrase "fixin' to" instead of "going to" when I am
talking, though. Does that count?

Kim W5TIT


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On 25 Jul 2003 10:21:48 GMT, (N2EY) wrote:

In article , "Dan/W4NTI"
writes:

Doing CW at around 28 wpm is like talking to a Southerner. Layed back.

Laid back, very courteous and mannerly, much gets said without a lot of words.


But talks kinda funny.

73 DE John, KC2HMZ

From: "Dan/W4NTI"

You have no concept of reality at all do you Vboy? I have met some stone
fox knock outs at hamfests, on the air, married and single.

There's that alternate reality. My reality is different. I've been to many
Hamfests and 5+ Ham radio clubs. Rarely are there any good looking females
there.

I really enjoy meeting XYL's or YLs on the radio.

I'm sure you do.

I know several serious female CW ops.
Im not going to put out calls here, because I really dont want to see them
insulted by gutless male pigs.

No need for that anyway. Hams aren't pigs. At the few Hamfests which had pretty
females, few of the (male) Hams showed any interest. Probably only would talk
to a female if she had a callsign.