[GreenKeys] Help

[Larry Tighe]

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: riceboxjim 
  To: Til128 at aol.com 
  Cc: larryradio at att.net ; wa2hwj at att.net 
  Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2013 8:59 AM
  Subject: Re: Help


  On 05/09/2013 06:44 AM, Til128 at aol.com wrote:

    GM, gang:

    What is the proper way to identify a "HAM"?
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    GM, gang:

    What is the proper way to identify a "HAM"?
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    Once upon a time, hams were easy to spot......no more !

    Ahhh, indeed.  I vaguely remember the days of unbridled radio enthusiasm.  The VHF bands full of repeaters, FM channels scarce.  The low bands loaded whenever there was skip.  

    Young men diving into the hobby with every spare moment.  Chasing down "stuff" on Canal Street in NYC.  Picking up any piece of WW II army surplus we could grab.  How about a Model 15 if you were middle/class and even a 28 for the "better/class"?  Heathkit, Drake, and World Radio Labs.  Gonset, National, Harvey Wells.  GE, Motorola for converting those old police radios....and even Link with it's octal tubes.  Mallard load coils for the mobile whip antenna....tapping out .... .. (Hi) on the horn when you saw a mobile rig.  Do that today and you get the middle finger :>)

    Power supplies with 0D3's glowing, red hot plates on the 5U4's.  Home made coils, transformers cooking.  Antennas hanging from any possible support and then.........................the internet, cell fones, ?pods of all manner.

    Now, 2 meters is near dead.  6 meters would go to wifi if it were not such a cantankerous band.....hardly anyone there.

    The low bands full of hit and run contacts or old timers burning up the electric talking about the way it was.

    "I Remember Mama"  or maybe,  "You Can't Go Home Again"

    So you ask, "How do you ID a ham?"........go to a museum!

    lar
    K2JIA
      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: riceboxjim 
      To: Til128 at aol.com 
      Cc: larryradio at att.net ; wa2hwj at att.net 
      Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2013 8:59 AM
      Subject: Re: Help


      On 05/09/2013 06:44 AM, Til128 at aol.com wrote:

        GM, gang:

        What is the proper way to identify a "HAM"?
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