[ADXA] Friday Humor

[w5zn at w5zn.org]

Nice receiver in that photo there Seaman Patterson!

U gg RN5 ?

ZN

On 2022-09-14 17:53, patw5vy at gmail.com wrote:

> I'm always late to the party but I have a related experience.  My Uncle 
> Bill Patterson, my dad's brother, lived with us and worked on the farm. 
>  Uncle Bill had a Three Letter call back in the 1920's when he attended 
> the Dodge Institute of Telegraphy in Valparaiso, IN and held a 2nd 
> Class Radio Telegrapher's License from the Interstate Commerce 
> Commission....FCC hadn't been formed at that time.  He was one of my 
> elmers and helped me with several crude receiver projects before I got 
> a Hallicrafters S20R.  Our '51 Chevy farm truck was equipped with a 
> "Cattle Caller" horn.  The Cattle Caller had a lever strapped to the 
> steering column that started and varied the pitch of the horn. You 
> could manipulate the lever to make a sound like a cow mooing.....pretty 
> realistic. They were advertised in Progressive Farmer as a way to train 
> your cows to come to the spot where you were blowing the horn.  The 
> idea was to train them in the winter while feeding hay then you could 
> "call" them to the coral in the summer to do all the things you have to 
> do to cattle to keep them healthy.  In the summer the cows fell for the 
> trick once but then we had to drive them to the coral.  After I got my 
> Novice  license my Uncle Bill would start calling CQ or send my call on 
> the cattle caller when he was about ½ mile from our house on Hwy 60 
> east of Perryville.  It was pretty funny....not exactly a chirp....more 
> like a moan.   My shack was about 100 yards from the house and in the 
> summer Uncle Bill would "read the mail" on my CW QSOs from the front 
> porch and later offer comments like "Joe in Cleveland had a nice fist".
> 
> My most memorable CW traffic net experience was when I was at the Naval 
> Communications Training Center in Pensacola, FL.  WA4ECY was the club 
> station on base.  There were a couple of WA4ECY club ops who checked 
> into the West Florida CW Net....think it was called the Florida Fast 
> Net (FFN??)  One night I was asked to be the 4RN rep to CAN for the 
> late session.  I had about ten pieces of traffic for RN5.  Bill 
> Browder, WA5AVO, was the RN5 Rep and we QSY'd to pass the traffic.  The 
> CW station at WA4ECY was a SP600 RX and a Collins TX of some flavor, a 
> tube type QSK widget,  a Hallicrafters TO (tube) Keyer and a Vibroplex 
> Classic Bug wired as a single lever paddle.   After each message Bill 
> would send QRQ,  I think I ran out of range on the keyer (our my 
> proficiency range!) and Bill kept sending QRQ!  Bill; Dennis, W5RZ; 
> Nick, WA5BDU and Sam, WA5HNN/AE5L (SK), are the finest CW Ops I have 
> ever been associated with.  Fun back in the day!  I was making about 
> $22 every two weeks so cheap fun was really good!
> 
> Photo is the "CW" station at WA4ECY in 1968 with Seaman Patterson at 
> the controls.  Seems like there was another room with a full S-Line.  
> We had a tri-bander and inverted V's for 80 and 40.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Pat, W5VY / WA5KAK
> 
> From: adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net <adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On 
> Behalf Of w5zn at w5zn.org
> Sent: Friday, September 9, 2022 4:35 PM
> To: adxa at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [ADXA] Friday Humor
> 
> Those of us who were licensed way back in the CW days will remember if 
> you were driving down the road and another ham noticed your callsign 
> license plate or a ham antenna on your vehicle, or you noticed another 
> ham, we would honk "CQ" on the horn. Most times the other ham would 
> answer with something on the horn or wave.
> 
> I noted the other day that I never hear than anymore to which one guy 
> responded "We're still doing it but we're using FT8, that's why you 
> don't hear it !!!!!!!!"
> 
> ZN
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