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Today's Topics:
1. Future of the website, R-390A collecting/restoring,
Silent-Keys (Tisha Hayes)
2. Re: One more list trivia thing (wli)
3. Re: One more list trivia thing... (Les Locklear)
4. Re: The future of our website: r-390a.net (Les Locklear)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2021 20:58:40 -0600
From: Tisha Hayes <tisha.hayes at gmail.com>
To: R390A <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: [R-390] Future of the website, R-390A collecting/restoring,
Silent-Keys
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The last two years of this plague in combination with the entropy of the
universe continues to take their toll upon the members of this list. None
of us are immortal (or at least the immortals are keeping a low profile);
Names I had seen active over the years are falling away in to silence. Some
are or were my friends who I would meet at a hamfest or even go over to
dinner with them and their spouses. Now I just don't know any more.
I am still around but my free time is even less than it was before; I still
travel the continent doing radio engineering as a paid gig. The sales side
of our business may have dropped off and the trade-show circuit (that
affects me more) has been less active, but customers still have the same
litany of installation issues, grounding issues, antenna issues,
interference and technology-literacy challenges. Even with COVID I still
need to travel to keep the infrastructure of electric utilities and
petrochemical operations sending little bursts of data packets across the
airwaves.
As surely as I think that I have spare moments to contribute to helping out
in writing technical stuff for our hobby, then the bill-paying part of my
profession ends up demanding more time. Not spilling the beans about my
age, but I still have around ten more years of professional life before I
can think about retiring. To many who are pushing their seventh and eighth
decade with your bodies above room temperature that seems young, but I am
feeling the years too. I no longer look at a 200 foot antenna tower and
think about how it would be so neat to climb it. Mostly I look up and think
about how much my legs would hurt from the climb or the crunch of my bones
if I fell off of that thing.
I have more radios than I have time to work on them; If I did retire today
I still would want to work on them all; Even that evil looking R-220/URR
that has been peeking at me from under the old towel in the corner of my
lab. I also want to get the T-195 fired up and paired with the R-392.. Just
too many projects and boat-anchors are heavy!
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As far as dealing with panel meters and their radioactive bits; People make
entirely too much out of that boogeyman. With some basic materials handling
precautions (and a N95 face mask, hmm, where do we get those from?) almost
anyone can deal with the momentary issues of cracking open a meter case to
replace a broken piece of glass or to free a stuck needle (just don't go
scraping off the radium paint with a screwdriver and snorting it up like a
white powdery substance that was popularized in the movie Scarface). I have
dealt with radioactive substances for several years of my life in
university and during my internships at labs. Only one time did I ever
contaminate up something, and it took me ten minutes to clean up my mess.
*Ms. Tisha Hayes*
*AA4HA*
*Still up in the mountains of northeast Alabama*
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2021 03:22:32 +0000 (UTC)
From: wli <wli98122 at yahoo.com>
To: R390A Listserv <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [R-390] One more list trivia thing
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One has to be realistic, and what all of you have done to support this listserv is to be commended. What Al had done for years was way beyond the call of duty, and I am happy that Larry will now take up the job. Me, I just passed 82, with just barely half of my 'marbles' left.
Larry: let me know when it is the right time for me to send you an updated version of "Pearls". It is a bunch of pdf files which I can send as two attachments
W, Li
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2021 05:54:39 -0600
From: "Les Locklear" <leslocklear at hotmail.com>
To: "Barry" <n4buq at knology.net>, "David" <wb5uom at hughes.net>
Cc: R-390 Mailing List <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [R-390] One more list trivia thing...
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I'm 78 and feel pretty good. Not on any medicines.
Les
----- Original Message -----
From: Barry <n4buq at knology.net>
To: David <wb5uom at hughes.net>
Cc: R-390 Mailing List <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: 11/10/2021 6:20:53 PM
Subject: Re: [R-390] One more list trivia thing...
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I just turned 68 and, most days, I feel every bit of 68.
Thanks,
Barry - N4BUQ
----- Original Message -----
> From: "David" <wb5uom at hughes.net>
> To: "R-390 Mailing List" <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2021 6:17:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [R-390] One more list trivia thing...
> Don -
>
> 75 is not old. There are Trees out in California older than that.
>
> Im 67 and feel like 80 on some days.
>
> David / WB5UOM
>
> East Texas USA
>
>
> On 11/10/2021 9:53 AM, Don Reaves wrote:
>> For years I was the sole list admin for this mailing list. in 2018 Jerry
>> Stern, NY2KW, came aboard as co-admin, so should something happen to me
>> (I'm a few days short of hitting 75) he will continue as admin for the
>> list, keeping the bounce messages down, tending to subscription issues,and
>> sometimes herding cats. Thanks, Jerry, Thanks list members for
>> contributing and sharing your R-390 experience.
>>
>> Don
>>
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2021 05:58:02 -0600
From: "Les Locklear" <leslocklear at hotmail.com>
To: "Larry H" <larry41gm at gmail.com>, "Don Reaves"
<donreaves at gmail.com>
Cc: Collins R-390 HF Receiver List <R-390 at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [R-390] The future of our website: r-390a.net
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That is great news indeed!
Les
----- Original Message -----
From: Larry H <larry41gm at gmail.com>
To: Don Reaves <donreaves at gmail.com>
Cc: Collins R-390 HF Receiver List <R-390 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: 11/10/2021 6:32:32 PM
Subject: Re: [R-390] The future of our website: r-390a.net
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Thank you Don for the very kind words. AND, Thank you contributors for
your generosity. You have sent me enough donations to support our website
for 2 years. THANKS!!!! I'm very gratified with the number and amount of
donations. I will initiate the transfer of our website to me today. You
have saved all the great info on it, and most importantly, easy access to
it.
Regards, Larry
On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 7:26 AM Don Reaves <donreaves at gmail.com> wrote:
> I should note Larry has been working diligently behind the scenes to take
> responsibility for Al's R-390 site. I'm sure Larry has learned more than
> he wanted about domains, hosting companies, name servers, DNS records, and
> all that good stuff that glues the internet together.
>
> I'll be sending Larry an Alexander Hamilton donation - R-390A.net is well
> worth preserving and updating. There is always something new to share
> about the R-390 series receivers.
>
> Don
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 11:12 PM Larry H <larry41gm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Our website is where a lot of R-390x doc is kept for us to access. Some
> of
> > it is the Pearls, y2k r3 tech ref, many Army and Navy tech refs and other
> > documents, Collins, the Tutorials documents and more. Al Tirevold was
> > taking care of it, but unexpectedly passed away a few months ago and
> > there is no backup person.
> >
> > I'm now in a position to take ownership of it, but the 'Boss' says I need
> > to get financial support from the group in order to do it. It is not a
> lot
> > of money, about $101 this year. Since there are a lot of R-390x
> > enthusiasts, it won't be much per person. Let's start with a $ per
> person.
> > If you'd like me to administer the website, send a $ to my
> > paypal: larry41gm 'at' gmail 'dot' com. Thank you.
> >
> > Regards, Larry
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