On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:19:06 -0700, "Ron D'Eau Claire" <r...@cobi.biz> wrote:
>Kevin is demonstrating the art and pleasure of "rag chewing". Comments like >his are the essence of a great contact on the air that makes Ham radio so >enjoyable for a lot of us. > >Your observations about wherever you live and comments about what's >important and interesting to you each day are instructive and interesting to >others. > >73, > >Ron AC7AC > According to QST and the ARRL, ham radio is all about "Radio Sport", not rag chewing ;o) You are right Ron. All of this started happening around 1980 or so. Now it's completely out of hand. Saturday night I was trying to work a rare one when a station in the NY QSO party landed right on top of him. What was so bad was that he was below 7.025 in the DX window. Sorry about the OT Bytes. Tom, N5GE n...@n5ge.com K3 #806, K3 #1055, PR6, XV144, XV432, KRC2, W1 and other small kits. 2 W2's on order 1 K144XV on order http://www.n5ge.com http://www.swotrc.net ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
