[Boatanchors] belated intro VE8RT

[Bry Carling]

Bill, Jim, Ron, Gary, others,

I find myself in this group with the demise of Yahoo Groups. To all the newcomers over the last few years: if I didn’t make enough noise already, I’m ex-G3XLQ
That means I was born in England (1950)
Then I became G3XLQ/W4 as soon as the gate opened here. My dad was a humble draughtsman/engineer with no college degree. Yet Lockheed hired him in the big scramble to build a large transport Jet (C5B) which is still our heavy lifter for the Air Force. I returned back to England in 1970 for a couple of years.
No ham activity. I was 20 years old and out socialising.
1972-1975 I return to the USA but did no ham activity until after I got married in the summer of 1975. That was it! I was back in with both feet. I even persuaded my YL to get a ticket - although she is no longer active.

So here I find myself; a would-be HomeBrewer. Many thousands of parts.
Many stories... soon to come.

Best regards - Bry Carling, AF4K, WN4NRR


On Mar 9, 2020, at 7:17 PM, Ron VE8RT <ve8rt at yknwt.ca> wrote:

Hi Bill,

  I still get that excitement, been so wrapped up i things I looked in
the log book and saw that I hadn't been on HF since July last year.
Used my 10W Elecraft to check into the Alberta Public Service Net on 75
metres, net control must have some station or a much lower than the S6
to S7 noise floor I had.  Point being is that it does pick me up to get
on the air.  Maybe I wouldn't leave a cheque until after I got on the
air though :-)  Have to pay for the station add-ons after all.

   Ron VE8RT

On Mon, 9 Mar 2020 09:51:17 -0400
Bill Cromwell <wrcromwell at gmail.com> wrote:

I didn't respond to this earlier just because I don't know about
Canadian regulations. I see a response form somebody who does but with
the subject of "Digest" = so responding here.

I agree with the question about "who is going to know if the
thransmitter is not used on the air?". Her isn the USA I had mt station
all set up and waiting for the license to arrive in the mail. Most of us
valued the license enough to go through all the required steps and pass
all the exams. And that includes valuing it enough to NOT transmit
without the license.

The day my license rrived in the mail there was also a check in the
mail. I tossed that aside for a while and opened the one from FCC first
and immediately put the rig on the air with my brand new callsign.
Excitement!

73,

Bill  KU8H

On 3/7/20 5:56 PM, w5jo at brightok.net wrote:
Ron,

Don't know about VE land but here owning a piece of equipment is fine,
but you must be licensed to use it.

If you operate anything outside of your license privileges then you must
have someone with you to oversee your operation who is licensed for the
frequency and mode.

I don't think I would worry too much unless Canada is different.

73,

Jim
W5JO


-----Original Message----- From: Ron VE8RT


Hi,

  I was sent a reminder that it is illegal to furnish a non amateur
with a transmitter.

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