Subj : Re: New Adventures in Old Tech
To   : Ed Vance
From : n2qfd
Date : Tue Jul 16 2024 09:02 pm

 EV> I haven't been on the airwaves for years.
 EV> Still have a HF rig but not used it.
 EV> I ought to turn the RX on just to see if there is any use in the CW
 EV> portions most Hams can't use unless they got the top license.
 EV> Hope so.

 They seem to Ed, that's where the DX is still happening. I'm a general so not permitted but I do sweep past and see what's doing not that I can keep up! 
 I never have had the chance to use a Collins, not yet. When I worked for Corning Inc we had a club and there was Drake gear all matched up station and a short tower on the roof of what was then the Baron Stuben Hotel in down town Corning, NY. You got into the shack through a little half door in the hall it was like a sort of un used partial room that had to happen from combining buildings at some point. By then and this was the year 2000 there were no more hams at Corning Inc, I think I was the last one locally to be involved. A VP coming through who was also licensed opened up the club for me. 
 Don't think I've been miss connected quite like you were but just recently I was trying to use my code oscillator to practice with this bug and could not get the computer to hear me.. well that's because I was plugged in direct and not with the splitter that breaks the line out between the headphones and the computer in. I like to use FLDigi to see if I'm making good letters. If the machine gets me a human will get me! 

  Best 73 and thanks for the story, 


   Malachi//N2QFD

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