Subj : Echo Description
To   : NIGHTFOX
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Mon Sep 18 2017 06:43 pm

N>Interesting..  I'd imagine morse code could still be useful to know though.

  The funniest deal I heard of that, was where four ol' boys were
sitting around a restaurant table in a restaurant, in Annapolis,
Maryland...telling each other dirty jokes in Morse Code.

  This "drop dead gorgeous, curvaceous female" walked up to them, and
admonished "You boys better watch your language. I teach Morse Code at
the Naval Academy across the street", and walked out!!

  They were as red as tomatoes -- would you like another helping of
salted crow, and humble pie?? <BG>

  The digital modes do get through better than voice, though.

N>Interesting.  I am aware of internet radio stations as far as many radio
N>stations (music & news, etc.) that also broadcast online.  I've also seen a
N>Shoutcast radio server software which you can use to run your own internet
N>radio station for playing music etc., but I'm not sure if that's the same as
N>what you're describing?

  No, this is completely different.

  As "amateur radio operators", are PROHIBITED for accepting any money
for our services. Part 97 of the FCC Rules prohibits any communications
where the ham radio operator, or his employer, has a "pecuniary
interest".

  Now, on "swap nets" we can list ham radio related equipment that we
want to buy, sell, or trade...provided such activity is not conducted on
a regular basis (i.e. rotating gear out every week).

  Also, Volunteer Examiner Teams who incur expenses "necessary and
prudent" to the exam session (i.e. supplies, facility rent, etc. or even
mileage costs (driving more than one county away to help with a test
session) they can get reimbursed for it. But, one doesn't get rich in
ham radio.

N> DS> Further information on the hobby...plus study options, exam session
N> DS> information, etc. -- is available from a link off my homepage at
N> DS> http://www.wx1der.com/hamradio.htm

N>Thanks.

  Let me know if you have any further questions about it. Now, while ham
radio is a hobby, some of us consider it an obsession <G>. There are
several ham radio operators who are also Sysops. Besides myself, there's
KK4QBN, and even digital man, developer of Synchronet (but I don't know
his callsign offhand).

  Sometime this fall, I'll have a VHF Packet Door on the BBS, for users
who have the equivalent of a U.S. Technician Class Ham Radio License or
above, where they can work packet, courtesy of my TNC (sort of a modem
for ham radio).

Daryl, WX1DER

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