Re: [AMRadio] Old-Timer AMers?
Yes, at 68 and active since 1948. Looking forward to the next 30. AM Rocks. Healthfully yours, Don W4BWS - Original Message - From: D. Chester [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amradio@mailman.qth.net Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 8:53 AM Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Old-Timer AMers? I definitely fit the profile the guy mentioned. 65, next birthday, and 50 years with a license and really enjoy giving guys like him hell. Get the Viking going stock then modify if you need to. Congratulations Steve you have made it to the cellar where I live. Jim/W5JO Same here. I turned 65 my last, and I am now in my 49th year as a licensed amateur. I hope neither one of us will fall into that couple of years category, though. Ashtabula Bill got a chuckle about a decade ago when I told him about a couple of slopbuckets I overheard in conversation and one of them remarked Ashtabula Bill hasn't died yet?. Looks like they are still having a long wait. When I work Bill, we still sometimes get a laugh out of that one. :-) 73, Don k4kyv __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] Old-Timer AMers?
I am curious about something in the record keeping of the FAA. I started out in 1958 or maybe 59 as WA6LGT then changed my call to WA5HLE sometime around 1960-61 when I moved to Texas, at that time it was required that you change your call if you moved. Then a few years ago to W5JAI when I became Extra but the records do not show the WA6LGT portion of my ham career. Maybe it was because I was in the military in Alaska when I got the license??? On Nov 22, 2007 10:24 AM, Donald Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, at 68 and active since 1948. Looking forward to the next 30. AM Rocks. Healthfully yours, Don W4BWS - Original Message - From: D. Chester [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amradio@mailman.qth.net Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 8:53 AM Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Old-Timer AMers? I definitely fit the profile the guy mentioned. 65, next birthday, and 50 years with a license and really enjoy giving guys like him hell. Get the Viking going stock then modify if you need to. Congratulations Steve you have made it to the cellar where I live. Jim/W5JO Same here. I turned 65 my last, and I am now in my 49th year as a licensed amateur. I hope neither one of us will fall into that couple of years category, though. Ashtabula Bill got a chuckle about a decade ago when I told him about a couple of slopbuckets I overheard in conversation and one of them remarked Ashtabula Bill hasn't died yet?. Looks like they are still having a long wait. When I work Bill, we still sometimes get a laugh out of that one. :-) 73, Don k4kyv __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. -- Jim Isbell If you are not living on the edge, well then, you are just taking up too much space. __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] Old-Timer AMers?
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007, Jim Isbell, W5JAI wrote: I am curious about something in the record keeping of the FAA. I started out in 1958 or maybe 59 as WA6LGT then changed my call to Wel - looks to me like you studied real hard and then got your pilot's licence Hey - I wonder if I can sit for the Extra test and then upgrade to ATP, or something cool like that... sure be a lot less work/time/money. ;} HIHI! Here's wishing everyone a really nice weekend, long or short, filled with activities or pleasantly quiet (as it is here)... Cheers John KB6SCO __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
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When the FCC computerized they did not copy the old paper records to the computer. They put them all in a warehouse. I sent a request to find my original 1957 ticket. They told me it would take 3 months to find it and the wanted to charge me a bunch of money to search the records. They found the ticket I had in 1967 by looking in an old CallBook! LOL! In the mis 70's I worked on a system for the Army and Air Force to copy all the old paper records to microfilm. That's as close as the became to being computerized. Bob Macklin K5MYJ Seattle, Wa, Real Radios Glow in the Dark - Original Message - From: Jim Isbell, W5JAI [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service amradio@mailman.qth.net Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 8:35 AM Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Old-Timer AMers? I am curious about something in the record keeping of the FAA. I started out in 1958 or maybe 59 as WA6LGT then changed my call to WA5HLE sometime around 1960-61 when I moved to Texas, at that time it was required that you change your call if you moved. Then a few years ago to W5JAI when I became Extra but the records do not show the WA6LGT portion of my ham career. Maybe it was because I was in the military in Alaska when I got the license??? On Nov 22, 2007 10:24 AM, Donald Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, at 68 and active since 1948. Looking forward to the next 30. AM Rocks. Healthfully yours, Don W4BWS - Original Message - From: D. Chester [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amradio@mailman.qth.net Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 8:53 AM Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Old-Timer AMers? I definitely fit the profile the guy mentioned. 65, next birthday, and 50 years with a license and really enjoy giving guys like him hell. Get the Viking going stock then modify if you need to. Congratulations Steve you have made it to the cellar where I live. Jim/W5JO Same here. I turned 65 my last, and I am now in my 49th year as a licensed amateur. I hope neither one of us will fall into that couple of years category, though. Ashtabula Bill got a chuckle about a decade ago when I told him about a couple of slopbuckets I overheard in conversation and one of them remarked Ashtabula Bill hasn't died yet?. Looks like they are still having a long wait. When I work Bill, we still sometimes get a laugh out of that one. :-) 73, Don k4kyv __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. -- Jim Isbell If you are not living on the edge, well then, you are just taking up too much space. __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
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Wel, I did get my pilots license.but not till 1963...oh well, FCC, FAA, its all the same, just government gone mad. On Nov 22, 2007 10:49 AM, John Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 22 Nov 2007, Jim Isbell, W5JAI wrote: I am curious about something in the record keeping of the FAA. I started out in 1958 or maybe 59 as WA6LGT then changed my call to Wel - looks to me like you studied real hard and then got your pilot's licence Hey - I wonder if I can sit for the Extra test and then upgrade to ATP, or something cool like that... sure be a lot less work/time/money. ;} HIHI! Here's wishing everyone a really nice weekend, long or short, filled with activities or pleasantly quiet (as it is here)... Cheers John KB6SCO __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. -- Jim Isbell If you are not living on the edge, well then, you are just taking up too much space. __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] Old-Timer AMers?
I'm 51 and will be 52 next April. If I get my Dad's Globe Champ 350 and his HQ-170A back on the air, I'll certainly be appearing now and then on AM! 73, Kim Elmore N5OP __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
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I definitely fit the profile the guy mentioned. 65, next birthday, and 50 years with a license and really enjoy giving guys like him hell. Get the Viking going stock then modify if you need to. Congratulations Steve you have made it to the cellar where I live. Jim/W5JO Same here. I turned 65 my last, and I am now in my 49th year as a licensed amateur. I hope neither one of us will fall into that couple of years category, though. Ashtabula Bill got a chuckle about a decade ago when I told him about a couple of slopbuckets I overheard in conversation and one of them remarked Ashtabula Bill hasn't died yet?. Looks like they are still having a long wait. When I work Bill, we still sometimes get a laugh out of that one. :-) 73, Don k4kyv __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
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I've enjoyed reading the ages and license length. I also fit that profile. 69 on December the 3rd and licensed for 59 years. My radio shaped my life and many things I did and I love it every day. Currently using a Collins 75A-1 and 32V-1 that are mint. Next to it is a Collins R-388 hot rodded by Chuck Felton and a restored CE 200V for vintage AM. How much fun is that? Thanks to everyone for a fun reflector. Phil Philip LaMarche LaMarche Enterprises, Inc. www.instantgourmetspices.com www.w9dvm.com 800-395-7795 pin 02 727-944-3226 FAX 727-937-8834 NASFT 30210 W9DVM -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of D. Chester Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 9:54 AM To: amradio@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Old-Timer AMers? I definitely fit the profile the guy mentioned. 65, next birthday, and 50 years with a license and really enjoy giving guys like him hell. Get the Viking going stock then modify if you need to. Congratulations Steve you have made it to the cellar where I live. Jim/W5JO Same here. I turned 65 my last, and I am now in my 49th year as a licensed amateur. I hope neither one of us will fall into that couple of years category, though. Ashtabula Bill got a chuckle about a decade ago when I told him about a couple of slopbuckets I overheard in conversation and one of them remarked Ashtabula Bill hasn't died yet?. Looks like they are still having a long wait. When I work Bill, we still sometimes get a laugh out of that one. :-) 73, Don k4kyv __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] Old-Timer AMers?
On Nov 21, 2007 9:53 AM, D. Chester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Same here. I turned 65 my last, and I am now in my 49th year as a licensed amateur. I hope neither one of us will fall into that couple of years category, though. Ashtabula Bill got a chuckle about a decade ago when I told him about a couple of slopbuckets I overheard in conversation and one of them remarked Ashtabula Bill hasn't died yet?. Looks like they are still having a long wait. When I work Bill, we still sometimes get a laugh out of that one. 46 here. I'll be 47 next year. :D Most of the AMers I know are in the 40s-50s category, with older and younger bookends. Methinks they have a bit of a wait ahead. AMers tend to be more active and will likely outlive many of them. ~ Todd, KA1KAQ __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
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I also fit the profile -- got my novice license in 1954 when I was 12, then passed general the next year. My first AM rig was a Navy TCS-12 which at that time was practically new. I worked all over the place with a whopping 15 or 20 watts of AM power. :-) /Brent W5FRG I've enjoyed reading the ages and license length. I also fit that profile. 69 on December the 3rd and licensed for 59 years. My radio shaped my life and many things I did and I love it every day. Currently using a Collins 75A-1 and 32V-1 that are mint. Next to it is a Collins R-388 hot rodded by Chuck Felton and a restored CE 200V for vintage AM. How much fun is that? Thanks to everyone for a fun reflector. Phil __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] Old-Timer AMers?
- Original Message - From: D. Chester [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amradio@mailman.qth.net Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 9:53 AM Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Old-Timer AMers? I definitely fit the profile the guy mentioned. 65, next birthday, and 50 years with a license and really enjoy giving guys like him hell. Get the Viking going stock then modify if you need to. Congratulations Steve you have made it to the cellar where I live. Jim/W5JO Same here. I turned 65 my last, and I am now in my 49th year as a licensed amateur. I hope neither one of us will fall into that couple of years category, though. Ashtabula Bill got a chuckle about a decade ago when I told him about a couple of slopbuckets I overheard in conversation and one of them remarked Ashtabula Bill hasn't died yet?. Looks like they are still having a long wait. When I work Bill, we still sometimes get a laugh out of that one. :-) 73, Don k4kyv Im another of the old farts. Will be 67 on 12/13 and got my Novice 11/55. However Ive also pushed the technology envelope having been on SSB (as well as CW/AM) as far back as 58. And been part of the first ever ham EME team down at Sam Harris'. I got into AM again in the 1980-85 era with a 4-1000A and sold everything only to get interested again recently. This time Im concentrating on the 30's and 40's. I have modern gear for DX chasing right up to microwave, lots of homebrew for 6M and above. Even a Cleg Zeus Interceptor. Also a vintage SX-115, HT-32A, NCL-2000 for when the spirit moves me for some mini contest. However, I still wont use open wire line BIG G Carl KM1H __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
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Phil LaMarche wrote: I've enjoyed reading the ages and license length. I also fit that profile. 69 on December the 3rd and licensed for 59 years. My radio shaped my life and many things I did and I love it every day. Currently using a Collins 75A-1 and 32V-1 that are mint. Next to it is a Collins R-388 hot rodded by Chuck Felton and a restored CE 200V for vintage AM. How much fun is that? Thanks to everyone for a fun reflector. Well, I don't *quite* fit that profile. I'll make the 49 year mark, on the 2nd of December. However, I've been around radio all my life. I remember the days when rigs such as the Benton Harbor Kilowatt (DX-100), a TC-7 (I think it was some sort of Collins rig) and a BC-610 were around here at various stages of my life, growing up. I didn't get my first ticket until Feb of 1984. Feb of 2008 will start my 24th year as a licensed ham. I don't know why I waited so long to get a license. I learned the code back when I was 8 years old, as a cub-scout. Dad and I built an AM receiver out of a paper towel tube with copper wire wrapped around it, a long metal bar to tune across the coil, a (new at the time) galena diode and a pair of old cans, made out of hard plastic that hurt my ears to put 'em on. The whole thing was built on a couple of 1x6's, about 12 long. I couldn't get enough of WOAI from a radio set that didn't need external power (batteries or AC) to operate, now matter HOW much those ol' hard-plastic 'cans' hurt my ears! I've been operating AM on the 250TH final since 1986, thanks to John/W5MEU, Dan/W5BU (both SK) and John/WA5BXO. Before the big-rig, there was a Ranger and an SX-28 and first off, on AM was a loaner Swan 350C with some mighty weak sweep-tubes. My novice rig was a hand-me-down from Dad.. National NCX-3. I coupled that with the Heathkit Cheyenne MR-1 as an external receiver because the NCX-3 didn't have a CW 'offset'. Tuning in a station at around the 800cycle area meant that I was zero-beat with the sender. A T/R relay helped out tremendously. Ahh.. the good ol' days (I can hear the ol' pharts now; whipper snapper) LOL At least the tradition lives! -- Driving your AM Rig without a scope, is like driving your car at night, without headlights. (K4KYV) 73 = Best Regards, 73's = Best Regardseses -Geoff/W5OMR __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
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I definitely fit the profile the guy mentioned. 65, next birthday, and 50 years with a license and really enjoy giving guys like him hell. Get the Viking going stock then modify if you need to. Congratulations Steve you have made it to the cellar where I live. Jim/W5JO Well, I'm not quite as old as some of you old timer jaspers, but I'm closing on 50 very soon. I was however a late child in my family. Dad was a WWII vet born in 1917, and both my siblings were much older than me. Gave me a lot of values of that era when I was growing up. Some of my best ham friends are much older than I am, as I seem to relate to them a lot better, however the downside of that is that many of them have become silent keys, and losing a friend is not a good thing, old or not. Down this way, there are still a couple of AM'ers that come to mind that are up there in age; Jim/K5BAI who is near 80, and just put a Gates BC-1H on the air, and Otis/K5SWK who is in his 80's. I have not heard Otis on the of late however. Jim, who we call the old dawg, is on daily. The old dawg can probably outrun me when we go to hamfests as we look for goodies. I never can keep up with him! Don't let W5JO fool you, as I think he is near 100 last I heard ;) 73 Happy Thanksgiving to all! Brian / wa5am -- Money is only temporary, radios are forever - Jim Little aka the old dawg/K5BAI __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
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I guess I'm one of the younger Old Buzzards. I'm 56, and been licensed since 1969. Been on AM since I got licensed. Oh, sure I operate slaw-bukitt, but if I'm on 80 or 40, AM it is, (generally). This anti-AM attitude is a hold over from CB, where sidebanders disdain AM. If they're complaining about AM'ers, or insulting them, then you know where they've come from. Ed, VA3ES __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
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I guess I'm on the bookend only being 38 and getting my ticket in 1984. :) - Tom, KB1LKV Most of the AMers I know are in the 40s-50s category, with older and younger bookends. Methinks they have a bit of a wait ahead. AMers tend to be more active and will likely outlive many of them. ~ Todd, KA1KAQ __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
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And as the ARRL is finding out, much more vocal. Jim/W5JO 46 here. I'll be 47 next year. :D Most of the AMers I know are in the 40s-50s category, with older and younger bookends. Methinks they have a bit of a wait ahead. AMers tend to be more active and will likely outlive many of them. ~ Todd, KA1KAQ __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
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Todd, KA1KAQ wrote: Most of the AMers I know are in the 40s-50s category, with older and younger bookends. Methinks they have a bit of a wait ahead. AMers tend to be more active and will likely outlive many of them. Which is also the age group that has a lot of discretionary purchasing potential, something the League is quite aware of. 20 and 30-somethings raising kids and making mortgage payments may be less likely to buy multi-K$ radios...not to mention the fact that AMers are by no means one-dimensional in their radio-related interests. Of course, the soothing mellow sound of AM audio has a lot to do with our expected longevity ;-) 73 and Happy Turkey Day, Bob W9RAN __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
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Not too old but old enough to know quality audio1 I will be 61 in January 08, licensed since 74. first rig ART13 tx BC348rx. Talk about TVI! First am experience at K5SMM's shack in 1959 Same rigs as my first! Current rigs Kenwood TS-B2000 (home) with Heil GM-4 driving a Titan 425. Also NC300 RX. Mobile rig TS-B2000 barefoot into a little tarheel 2 screwdriver. Jim in Waco, WB5OXQ. __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] Old-Timer AMers?
- Original Message - From: Geoff/W5OMR [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service amradio@mailman.qth.net Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 9:26 AM Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Old-Timer AMers? My novice rig was a hand-me-down from Dad.. National NCX-3. I coupled that with the Heathkit Cheyenne MR-1 as an external receiver because the NCX-3 didn't have a CW 'offset'. Tuning in a station at around the 800cycle area meant that I was zero-beat with the sender. A T/R relay helped out tremendously. Ummm don't you mean an MR-1 Comanche Geoff? ;) I briefly had a Cheyenne. It was the MT-1 transmitter companion to the MR-1 Comanche. 73, Ellen - AF9J __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] Old-Timer AMers?
Ellen Rugowski wrote: My novice rig was a hand-me-down from Dad.. National NCX-3. I coupled that with the Heathkit Cheyenne MR-1 as an external receiver because the NCX-3 didn't have a CW 'offset'. Tuning in a station at around the 800cycle area meant that I was zero-beat with the sender. A T/R relay helped out tremendously. Ummm don't you mean an MR-1 Comanche Geoff? ;) I briefly had a Cheyenne. It was the MT-1 transmitter companion to the MR-1 Comanche. So corrected. I knew it was one of the two. There was the Comanche and the Cheyenne. One was the receiver and the other the screen modulated, single 6146 final transmitter. The Heathkit 'twins'. Mobile radios. Had both. The cases were bolted together, one on top of the other. Still have 'em, in fact. Need to build up a power supply for the receiver and see if it'll still come to life. The pair have been dormant for 20+ years. In fact, I think it was when I get the Swan 350C, when I quit using the Comanche. -- Driving your AM Rig without a scope, is like driving your car at night, without headlights. (K4KYV) -- 73 = Best Regards, -Geoff/W5OMR __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
[AMRadio] Old-Timer AMers?
Funny, SSB operators were making the same stereotypical statements about AM operators when I was a new SWL with a borrowed S120 in 1966. And these guys think they're modern! Mike Duke, K5XU American Council of Blind Radio Amateurs __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
