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Alun wrote in message . ..
Leo wrote in : On 8 Feb 2004 18:21:54 GMT, Alun wrote: snip Have the Canadian rules changed? The last time I read it you had to be both a US citizen and a US resident to qualify. I'm not an American (or a Canadian either) so I couldn't operate in Canada using my US call. The rules I read were certainly not reciprocal, though. An American with a US call and residing in the US could operate in Canada for only 2 months within the terms of the nearest Canadian licence (No WARC bands or 40m for Generals!), whereas a Canadian with a Canadian call could operate indefinitely in the US, even living here permanently, under the terms of their Canadian licence (not to exceed Extra). Not sure if they have changed, Alun - just discovered them when I bacame a ham a couple of years ago! The link to the RAC page with info on the current reciprocal agreement is: http://www.rac.ca/regulatory/rcip.htm and IC RIC-3, which contains the details on the various agreements, US and other, is at: http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/epic/internet/insmt-gst.nsf/vwapj/ric3.pdf/$FI LE/ric3.pdf From what I read in these documents, one need only possess a US licence to gain full Canadian privileges appropriate to the licence class. For countries other than the US, CEPT and IARP permits are acceptable. Hope that helps! 73, Leo The first page talks about 'Americans operating in Canada', but I am not an American, just someone with a US licence! That is the problem. Reading further, RIC-2 limits operation under the bilateral agreement to US citizens who are US residents, just as the previous rules did. However, in RIC-3 it says that operating in Canada is possible under CEPT. I cannot use my US licence under CEPT, as the CEPT letter that the FCC publish says that it is only valid for US citizens (I've no idea why, as the CEPT treaty does not mention citizenship anywhere). However, if I got my UK licence re-activated it would automatically be valid in Canada under CEPT. Someone who wasn't British would still be able to do that, although I am actually a British citizen. I often go across the border to Windsor when I visit Detroit, but I have never operated on the Canadian side. It seems if I did so it would have to be as VE3/G8VUK, after first getting my UK licence back. AND you'd be able to run ssb below 7.100. Fancy that. Huge burden relieved. Move. 73 de Alun, N3KIP w3rv |
Dave Heil wrote in message ...
Brian Kelly wrote: Dave Heil wrote in message ... Brian Kelly wrote: Young Don Newell was the crucifer one Sunday at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Oak Hill. After the processional and after my father had begun the service, Don fished a tiny crystal radio from his cassock, stuffed the earphone into his ear and attached a wire with an alligator clip to the cross. As the service ended, my dad whispered to him, "I'd like a word after church". Yeah, I'll bet there was a "word or two"! You brought back a lot of hilarious memories of "electronerd educations" gone awry David. Gawd we had fun . . ! The best I've ever heard was deliverd at the Dayton banquet one year by Jean Shepherd. I'd love to read it if his talk has been archived somewhere. I'll bet that if some Shepherd-type individual went out and compiled tales about all the goofy stunts and missteps kid hams got into back when in a book it would sell. Well, in my case it was a one-time Christmas deal--the one BIG present and that was second-hand from Allied's big, used equipment list. The receiver I saved for was also from the same list. I wonder if there are any Allied employees left from the days when they were in the ham biz. More newspaper deliveries, an after-school job at the local hobby shop several days each week and the writing of a sports column for the local newspaper provided coaxial cable and connectors, a key, antenna wire and the like. My first store-bought rcvr was a new Hallicrafters S-40B. Which I bought from Sears & Roebuck believe it or not. At the time Sears sold the S-38, the S-40, and a couple higher-end Hallicrafters rcvrs. I think one of 'em was the SX-71. The S-40 catalog price was $119.95. But I had an aunt who lived in Chicago and worked for Sears so I was able to get her employee's 10% discount. A whole twelve bucks. I was as interested in SWLing as much as I was into becoming a Novice so I spent more time chasing SW BC "rare ones" than I did tuning the W1AW code practice sessions. Eventually though, maybe a year after I got the rcvr I had 7.5 wpm down cold and was close to 10 wpm so I trundled off downtown, took the test and put the S-40 to the real task. Some of that money was also spent on a big U.S. call area map and some (sorry, no choice of color) QSL cards from WRL. Now yer really rubbing it in . . . The Globe King, the King of the Hill . . ! I understand that Leo is now 93 and is still at it at. ...and ran the W3KT outgoing QSL forwarding service for a number of years. I forgot all about that, tnx. I used Jesse's outgoing card forwarding service in the days preceeding the ARRL's outgoing bureau. I knew it existed but I wasn't active in that timeframe. Speaking of QSL card handling Joe Arcure W3HNK is in this neighborhood, I gotta look him up. Joe used to be a regular at the DX hospitality suites at Dayton. I haven't seen him in a number of years. He recently retired from Sun Oil and has tapered back from his former volume of QSL work. I haven't done an eyball with him for probably 40 years. It's time to dig him up for a lunch. All of this nostalgia has me fired up to grab my collection of the West Coast DX Bulletin to re-read some of Cass's gems. I subscribed to one or another of the dx bulletins but I forget which one it was. I don't remember a "Cass". I had a big asset in the dx spots game, I was geographically right in the middle of the FRC 2m "spots network". I left the rcvr on 24/7, when I heard it light up I knew there was a goodie lurking somewhere, got into the shack pronto, fired up and joined the throng on the freq. Some of the poor dx stations we jumped all over probably wondered what hit 'em. Then there was the Ham Trader yellow sheets . . I moved a *lotta* gear in and out with those. Dave K8MN w3rv |
In article , Alun
writes: 73 de Alun, N3KIP w3rv Anyone would try to think you were trying to get rid of me, LOL! Independent thought must be abolished from this group. It makes the regular natives restless and they might take up their spears and fight against Abrams tanks... LHA / WMD |
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(Steve Robeson, K4CAP) wrote in message . com...
(William) wrote in message . com... No, we're all hams. Save for one who has an interest in ham radio. Hey Brain...y'aint talking about Lennie, are you? Just last week he adamantly stated he had NO interest in Amateur Radio beyond antagonizing this NG over the Code issue, which he himself can't seem to stay focused on... Steve, K4YZ That is an interest. |
(N2EY) wrote in message ...
In article , (Steve Robeson, K4CAP) writes: y'aint talking about Lennie, are you? Just last week he adamantly stated he had NO interest in Amateur Radio beyond antagonizing this NG over the Code issue, which he himself can't seem to stay focused on... Steve, Since Mr. Anderson has made his purpose here quite clear, why do you continue to bother with him? All that does is reinforce his behavior. You've raised kids - you obviously know that rewarding behavior is a good way to get more of it. And often the "reward" is simply giving your attention. 73 de Jim, N2EY TAFKA Rev. Jim, Steve has an obsession. It is not rational. Compelling, rational arguments will not deter him. |
"William" wrote in message om... (Steve Robeson, K4CAP) wrote in message . com... (William) wrote in message . com... No, we're all hams. Save for one who has an interest in ham radio. Hey Brain...y'aint talking about Lennie, are you? Just last week he adamantly stated he had NO interest in Amateur Radio beyond antagonizing this NG over the Code issue, which he himself can't seem to stay focused on... Steve, K4YZ That is an interest. Actually he likes to antagonize over anything he can manage to twist into an argument. Dee D. Flint, N8UZE |
In article , "Dee D. Flint"
writes: That is an interest. Actually he likes to antagonize over anything he can manage to twist into an argument. Only to counter the revisionist history of radio as presented by the ARRL. :-) Please, continue to hide head in the sand and let the league be your Big Brother. They know what is best for ham radio because they say they do. Hmmm...we are 20 years past "1984." :-) LHA / WMD |
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