[R-390] $5000.00 390A????

[wb5uom at hughes.net]

Cecil -
Before it gets out of hand, I wasnt painting the ham community out ,as I am 
one of them.

probably not everyone including me looks at things from all directions and 
perspectives
they ARE some very good hams out there.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "chacuff" <chacuff at cableone.net>
To: <wb5uom at hughes.net>; "Randy and Sherry Guttery" 
<comcents at bellsouth.net>; "barry williams" <ba.williams at charter.net>
Cc: <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 7:25 PM
Subject: Re: [R-390] $5000.00 390A????


> Well lets not paint the entire Ham community with one big brush.  Contrary 
> to what some believe the participants in Amateur Radio are just as varied 
> as those who collect and restore tubed radio's.  We all have our little 
> oddities....well except me of course...HA!
>
> I have been involved in many different aspects of the RF hobbies from CB 
> through RC airplanes...with SWLing and Amateur Radio DXing and Contesting 
> the most interesting to me.  I still listen on the SW bands...I find it 
> relaxing.  I'm more interested in the technical side of all the RF 
> hobbies. Not much interest in Rag Chewing and never been on AM. 
> Yup...blasphemey.
>
> Setup to do a 160 Meter DX contest recently...had a weather balloon 
> supporting a 1/4 wave vertical over a bunch of 100' ground radials, a RX 
> antenna a couple wavelengths away made up of a HI-Z 4 square...all in a 
> open field of probably 30 acres running on generator power all 
> weekend...what a Hoot!  Worked All States on 160 Meters in 48 hours.
>
> Did a little MW DXing after it was all over with the 4 square....Les 
> Locklear and myself tuned all over the band on that antenna and an Icom 
> 7700.
>
> There is fun in it for everybody....
>
> Cecil
> K5DL
>
>
>>
>> I started out as SWL at the age of 13. When I tripped over something late
>> one night on the Shortwave bands and dialed it in
>> and found it to be two of our bombers comming back from theirs missions 
>> over
>> Vietnam, well that hooked me.
>>
>> it hooked me on RADIO, not ham radio, not SWL radio, but communications.
>