The 'Above and Beyond" meaning.
--------------------- No trees were harmed in the production of this message, however, a great many electrons were terribly inconvenienced. ________________________________ From: BVARC <bvarc-boun...@bvarc.org> on behalf of K5HM via BVARC <bvarc@bvarc.org> Sent: Saturday, November 5, 2016 2:09 PM To: 'BRAZOS VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB' Cc: K5HM; 'Roy Storey' Subject: Re: [BVARC] BOD Meeting and Greater Houston Hamfest Meeting - Saturday, November 5th, 2016 Roy, Travis, et al If you know the story behind the leg lamp below and the man who wrote The Christmas Story; Jean Shepherd, K2ORS (SK), ex-W9QWN. Excelsior was one of his favorite expressions and often used in commentary about some ridiculous true life event, as in "Excelsior, you fathead!" I discovered Shep in high school when I was studying late at night. Shep was on WOR-Radio in NYC every night from 8 PM - Midnight. He never had a script and never a guest. But he could make you laugh He would talk about news, geography, his time as a kid growing up and his Army time in WWII; and yes, plenty of ham radio stories. Here are a couple https://archive.org/details/JeanShepherdHamventionSpeeches Audio is better on part 2 [https://archive.org/services/img/JeanShepherdHamventionSpeeches]<https://archive.org/details/JeanShepherdHamventionSpeeches> Jean Shepherd HamVention Speeches - Internet Archive<https://archive.org/details/JeanShepherdHamventionSpeeches> archive.org 2 talks by Jean Shepherd at the Dayton HamVention: 1980-05-xx Dayton HamVention (poor audio) 1985-04-27 Dayton... https://archive.org/details/JeanShepherd1965Pt1 About 7 min in to the tape https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22fl5JtoZXU 73, Ron, K5HM k5hm....@gmail.com<mailto:k5hm....@gmail.com> www.qrz.com/db/k5hm<http://www.qrz.com/db/k5hm> [ARRL Logo][logo (2)][smaller Prize] Excelsior! From: BVARC [mailto:bvarc-boun...@bvarc.org] On Behalf Of Roy Storey via BVARC Sent: Friday, November 4, 2016 3:14 PM To: BRAZOS VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB <bvarc@bvarc.org> Cc: Roy Storey <rstorey1...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [BVARC] BOD Meeting and Greater Houston Hamfest Meeting - Saturday, November 5th, 2016 I thought Excelsior was what you take for an upset stomach. Roy Storey W5TKZ -- 73 On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 3:09 PM, Travis Burgess via BVARC <bvarc@bvarc.org<mailto:bvarc@bvarc.org>> wrote: Ron, your tag Excelsior!: Wood wool, known primarily as excelsior in North America,[1]<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_wool#cite_note-1> is a product made of wood slivers cut from logs and is mainly used in packaging, for cooling pads in home evaporative cooling systems known as swamp coolers<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swamp_cooler>, for erosion control<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erosion_control> mats, and as a raw material for the production of other products such as bonded wood wool boards and used as stuffing for stuffed animals. [??][??] (And I do know the other meaning.) Travis K5HTB --------------------- No trees were harmed in the production of this message, however, a great many electrons were terribly inconvenienced. ________________________________ From: BVARC <bvarc-boun...@bvarc.org<mailto:bvarc-boun...@bvarc.org>> on behalf of K5HM via BVARC <bvarc@bvarc.org<mailto:bvarc@bvarc.org>> Sent: Friday, November 4, 2016 1:42 PM To: 'BRAZOS VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB' Cc: K5HM Subject: Re: [BVARC] BOD Meeting and Greater Houston Hamfest Meeting - Saturday, November 5th, 2016 Roger 73, Ron, K5HM k5hm....@gmail.com<mailto:k5hm....@gmail.com> www.qrz.com/db/k5hm<http://www.qrz.com/db/k5hm> [ARRL Logo][logo (2)][smaller Prize] Excelsior! From: BVARC [mailto:bvarc-boun...@bvarc.org<mailto:bvarc-boun...@bvarc.org>] On Behalf Of Mike Hardwick via BVARC Sent: Thursday, November 3, 2016 7:07 PM To: 'BRAZOS VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB' <bvarc@bvarc.org<mailto:bvarc@bvarc.org>> Cc: Mike Hardwick <n5...@att.net<mailto:n5...@att.net>> Subject: [BVARC] BOD Meeting and Greater Houston Hamfest Meeting - Saturday, November 5th, 2016 Saturday August 5th, 2016 Bayland Park Community Center 6400 Bissonnet Street Houston, Texas 77074 BVARC Board of Directors Meeting 9:00 am to 10:30 am Greater Houston Hamfest Organization Meeting 10:30 am to 12:00 noon And don't forget the Chili Supper and Elections next week at the Sugar Land Masonic Lodge. Hope to see everyone at the meetings. N5VCX _______________________________________________ BVARC mailing list BVARC@bvarc.org<mailto:BVARC@bvarc.org> http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org
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