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

[Randy and Sherry Guttery]

On 3/13/2012 7:25 PM, chacuff wrote:
> 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.
True, and you're quite right about too broad a brush.  I'm 
as guilty as can be of reacting poorly to the one or two 
"bad apples" - when in fact I also have several good friends 
that just happen to be HAMs.  Point well taken.
>
> 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.
Oh, I don't know that's such serious blasphemy  --- we had 
an RTTY net on 11 meters (yes 11) in the Tidewater area in 
the later 1970s...  That was frowned on by pretty much 
everyone (except those of us participating)...  Some of the 
*traditional" CBers didn't like it - because they couldn't 
figure out what to do with it; the HAMs didn't like it 
because they felt they somehow "owned" that mode (for 
non-commercial use) and we dared to merely RYRYRY and QBF 
for a bit - then do some chatting (via keyboard, of course). 
The only "traditional" tsk tsk tskers that didn't get up set 
was the FCC As long as we ID'd properly. At first they kinda 
went Hmmm.... but after thinking about it - audio into an 
SSB transmitter - well with in channel bandwidth - they 
decided it was fine.
>
> .Les Locklear and myself tuned all over the band on that 
> antenna and an Icom 7700.
>
Les could tune a tuna can if he had nothing else available - 
you can't keep him from having fun!

-- 
randy guttery

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