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Info-Hams Digest            Fri, 20 May 94       Volume 94 : Issue  547

Today's Topics:
                     Fond memories of first QSOs?
                   Gun Owners: Protect your Rights!
                         Willful Interference

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Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 02:28:52 GMT
From: lll-winken.llnl.gov!fnnews.fnal.gov!att-in!cbnewsm![e-mail]
Subject: Fond memories of first QSOs?
To: [e-mail]

>
>I wrote this a few nights ago, right before my license came.
>KE6GXD, eventually to be found on 40 meter CW.  Reply to
>[e-mail]
>------------------------------------------
>he has a straight key and an antenna matcher he will let me have for
>cheap and that he'll stop on by and see what kind of antenna would
>work best at my place.  I thank him repeatedly and bid him good night.
>At home, I still can't receive anything and I still don't have my
>license, but at least I know why and I know I've even talked DX on
>my own rig now.

Great story! That first QSO is always the greatest and one you always
remember.

Why don't we keep this thread going and post our memories of our first
QSO here?

I was a Tech plus at the time and some friends of mine and I had put up
a G5RV in my backyard earlier that summer (they charged me a steak dinner 8-).
And there it sat until October when a fellow ham that I met on the local
repeater, KI6LV, offered to come over and show me how to tune up my Swan 700.
I said yes and shortly there after he came over. He showed me how to tune
the finals by dipping the grid and peaking the plate or was it the other way
around? 8-) After he tuned it he spun the knobs and told me to do it now.
I gingerly touched touched them and very carefully tweaked them until the
power output looked right. I glanced over at him and he said "looks good to
me, why don't you call CQ and see what happens?" I called CQ and lo and
behold a ham from Texas came back to me. I exictedly told him this was my
first QSO. He congratulated me and we chatted a bit. I asked him if he would
QSL me and he said that he had only been on the air 2 weeks himself and had
no QSL cards. He said he would send me a postcard though if that would be
all right. I said yes! (It showed up two weeks later and is on my wall now).
We signed with each other and Craig, KI6LV, asked me if I wanted to try
tuning up the rig again. I said NO, I wanted to have some more contacts.
He smiled at me and said that would be fine with him. 8-)  He is now one
of best friends but that first time I met him and that first QSO will
always be remembered.

Any one else got any stories?

73!

Jeff




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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Stephen Wohl) writes:
>This is being posted for a friend who doesn't have net access.
>
>I wrote this a few nights ago, right before my license came.
>KE6GXD, eventually to be found on 40 meter CW.  Reply to
>[e-mail]
>------------------------------------------
>he has a straight key and an antenna matcher he will let me have for
>cheap and that he'll stop on by and see what kind of antenna would
>work best at my place.  I thank him repeatedly and bid him good night.
>At home, I still can't receive anything and I still don't have my
>license, but at least I know why and I know I've even talked DX on
>my own rig now.

Great story! That first QSO is always the greatest and one you always
remember.

Why don't we keep this thread going and post our memories of our first
QSO here?

I was a Tech plus at the time and some friends of mine and I had put up
a G5RV in my backyard earlier that summer (they charged me a steak dinner 8-).
And there it sat until October when a fellow ham that I met on the local
repeater, KI6LV, offered to come over and show me how to tune up my Swan 700.
I said yes and shortly there after he came over. He showed me how to tune
the finals by dipping the grid and peaking the plate or was it the other way
around? 8-) After he tuned it he spun the knobs and told me to do it now.
I gingerly touched touched them and very carefully tweaked them until the
power output looked right. I glanced over at him and he said "looks good to
me, why don't you call CQ and see what happens?" I called CQ and lo and
behold a ham from Texas came back to me. I exictedly told him this was my
first QSO. He congratulated me and we chatted a bit. I asked him if he would
QSL me and he said that he had only been on the air 2 weeks himself and had
no QSL cards. He said he would send me a postcard though if that would be
all right. I said yes! (It showed up two weeks later and is on my wall now).
We signed with each other and Craig, KI6LV, asked me if I wanted to try
tuning up the rig again. I said NO, I wanted to have some more contacts.
He smiled at me and said that would be fine with him. 8-)  He is now one
of best friends but that first time I met him and that first QSO will
always be remembered.

Any one else got any stories?

73!

Jeff




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Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 03:40:43 AST
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!ucsnews!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!news.unb.ca!nbt.nbnet.nb.ca![e-mail]
Subject: Gun Owners: Protect your Rights!
To: [e-mail]

On 15 May 94 11:59:00 GMT,  [e-mail] writes:
>
>-> Typical of you NRA wackos, you have abused the media by placing this
>-> issue in an amateur radio forum to make your absurd case.
>-> No one needs assault weapons.  Any one with any sense will urge
>-> congress to BAN ALL ASSAULT WEAPONS immediately.
>
>Agreed that the message is in the wrong place, but likewise your logic
>that no one NEEDS assault weapons can be turned around:
>
>"No one NEEDS the HF frequencies, especially for some dumb
>..No Needs for a assault weapons for doing hamburger meat whit a Livestock?

>_..hobby..
>
>----
>Top Of The Rock BBS - Lilburn, GA         SYSOP: Steve Diggs
>UUCP: totrbbs.atl.ga.us               Snailmail: 4181 Wash Lee Ct.
>Phone: [phone]                           Lilburn, GA 30247-7407
>

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Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 03:09:45 GMT
From: brunix!pstc3.pstc.brown.edu![e-mail]
Subject: Willful Interference
To: [e-mail]

[e-mail] (Jim Grubs, W8GRT) writes:


me> Interesting concept. You condone jamming jammers then?

> In a word, YES.

Sad thought, the day amateur operators start becoming vigilantes.

me> I thought that
me> type of mentality was limited to 27mhz.

>Why do you take the position that non-violent self-defence is
>wrong? The FCC won't act.

Just because the FCC won't act doesn't make it "right" for us to
disregard the same rules that we're condemning someone elsefor
breaking.

me> Then again, 27mhz, 144mhz... Its all the same today.

>Aha, an anti-no-coder!!

And how does the fact that VHF sounds more and more like CB radio
every day have to do with my position on the codeless license? I'm
glad you can read minds.

MD
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-- Michael P. Deignan
-- Amalgamated Baby Seal Poachers Union, Local 101
-- "Get 'The Club'... Endorsed by Baby Seal poachers everywhere..."

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Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 02:37:16 GMT
From: lll-winken.llnl.gov!fnnews.fnal.gov!att-in!cbnewsm![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <2r8v1b$[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>, <2rar4n$[e-mail]>s
Subject : Re: Final QTH Monument

In article <2rar4n$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Andrew M. Cohn) writes:
>Greg Bullough ([e-mail]) wrote:
>: >not to mention very poor taste!
>: Ever see the average ham, dressed for a Ham-Fest?
>
>Ever see the unadulterated crap that people try to sell at a hamfest?
>Hams dress the way they do to protect their regular clothes from 300
>year old fungi which accumulates on the same old prehistoric junk that
>shows up year after year after year....

Yep and every year it's on a different table. 8-)

Our club has a terminal that wouldn't die, every auction (twice a year)
it is sold by someone and like a bad penny it always comes back. 8-)

Jeff

--
 Jeff Jones  AB6MB         | Vote out those who voted for the North American
 [e-mail]  | Free Trade Agreement!
 Infolinc BBS 510-778-5929 |

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