It was Kurt. In The Sirens of Titan.
-Tim -----Original Message----- From: Dale Boresz [mailto:d...@lightstream.net] Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 10:29 AM To: Tim Ellison Cc: Ron Kolarik; flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Flex 3000 and RTTY or was that Douglas Adams, from the Hitchhikers Guide ....? Either way, good stuff. Dale Dale Boresz wrote: > Tim, > > "...there was the Chronosynclastic Infundibulum" > > a fellow Kurt Vonnegut Jr. fan, eh? :-) > > Dale > > > > Tim Ellison wrote: >> [Off Topic] >> >> Ron, >> >> Boy, did you hit the nostalgia button for me. As a teenager and young >> ham the mid 70s in Charlotte NC, there was a really progressive "sun >> up to sun down underground" AM radio station, WRPL 1540 (the Ripple) >> that played the rock and roll that the FM stations would not dare to >> (Frank Zappa, Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, etc...) and their slogan was >> "WRPL, Radio with Balls!" which came with a cool poster of just about >> every ball you could imagine on it. Innocent, but the message was >> clear. The ad campaign was so "risqué" for sleepy ol' Charlotte back >> then, that the local government partitioned the FCC to shut them and >> the ad campaign down. They never did. WRPL eventually faded away >> because one of the local FM radio stations (WROQ) converted to album >> rock and started playing the really cool music late at night and >> stereo was much better than mono on AM. I still have that poster >> some where. You could go to the little studio on East Morehead St. >> and sit in the control booth with the engineer, who was also a ham, >> but I forget the call. While on the Charlotte in the 70s nostalgia >> kick, there was the Chronosynclastic Infundibulum, but that is a >> different story.... Ahhhh, the good ol' daze. >> >> -Tim >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz >> [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Ron Kolarik >> Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 2:01 AM >> To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz >> Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Flex 3000 and RTTY >> >> "See the ball, feel the ball, BE THE BALL"??? >> >> Ignoring the Zen aspects of this for the moment a new Flex slogan is >> born. "RADIO WITH BALLS" >> Sorry, was double dogged dared.......you know who you are :)> >> >> leaving quietly now >> Ron >> k0idt >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "FireBrick" <w...@billnjudy.com> >> To: "Neal Campbell" <nealk...@gmail.com>; "Tim Ellison" >> <telli...@itsco.com> >> Cc: <flexradio@flex-radio.biz> >> Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 1:35 PM >> Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Flex 3000 and RTTY >> >> >> >>> Buy it, use it and see for your self! >>> >>> Neal Campbell >>> Abroham Neal Software >>> Programming Services for Windows, OS X and Linux >>> www.abrohamnealsoftware.com >>> (540) 242 0911 >>> >>> >>> >>> nice line Neal. "Buy it, use it and seel for your self!" >>> >>> >>> I have seen no 'major' problems with RTTY as AFSK. >>> I've learned to compensate for PWSDR VFO and Contest Software VFO >>> not aggreeing. (doing math in my head is not my strongpoint) >>> >>> There is a 'slight' advantage to FSK in SUPERCROWDED contest >>> settings as it's a tad narrowrer signal. >>> >>> >>> But to match Neal;s Line. >>> >>> "See the ball, feel the ball, BE THE BALL". >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> FlexRadio Systems Mailing List >> FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz >> http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz >> Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ >> Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: >> http://www.flex-radio.com/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> FlexRadio Systems Mailing List >> FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz >> http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz >> Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ >> Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: >> http://www.flex-radio.com/ >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
