[LeArc] Ham Radio Book

[Don Johnson]

>From a review in the 4/14/03 New Yorker:

"CQ CQ CQ this is W2OJW calling CQ. Whiskey Two Oscar Juliet Whiskey in 
Hackensack, New Jersey standing by for a call." For seventy-four years
before 
his "key went silent," in 2001, this was the nightly appeal of Jerry
Powell, 
an aeronautical engineer, amateur trombonist and avid ham-radio
operator. 
Powell's devotion to vacuum tubes, multiband yagis, parallel RLC
circuits and 
midnight conversations with fellow hams from Moscow to Montivideo is
celebrated 
by Danny Gregory and Paul Sahre in the colorful "Hello World: A Life in
Ham 
Radio"  (Princeton Architectural Press). Hams, as Gregory and Sahre
discovered, 
"come in all shapes and sizes and live all over the world." Although ham

radio is generally considered an arcane pastime reserved for microhenry-
obsessed nerds, recent estimates put the number of worldwide hams at
more 
than two million, including such devoted practitioners as Marlon Brando 
(ham call sign FO5GJ,) Donny Osmond (WD4SKT), George Pataki (K2ZCZ), and

King Juan Carlos of Spain (EA0JC).


And this is some advice from the Hancock County Red Cross:
> > A Good Piece of Advice
> >
> > When you are out buying  plastic, duct tape and toilet paper,  to
> > protect yourself from germ warfare, don't forget fresh batteries for
your 
> > flashlights, because in the dark you don't want to mix up the duct 
> > tape and toilet paper!
> >