Subj : Re: New Adventures in Old Tech
To   : n2qfd
From : Ed Vance
Date : Wed Jul 17 2024 09:55 am



>  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

> N2QFD{Queen City BBS}:// "Does this need to be said? Does this need to be
> said by me? Does this need to be said by me right now?" - Craig Ferguson 

> --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Raspberry Pi/32)
>  * Origin: Queen City BBS (21:1/154)
FLDigi ???
I don't subscribe to any Amateur Radio publications or catalogs, so I am
unaware of what a FLDigi is.

Haven't used a Code Practice Oscillator in a L O N G. time.
The only practice I do is when I see letters on auto license plates I will
think of them in CW.

How about this for a Tagline:
ZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA is how I say the Alphabet.
I can send it in CW too.

Another story: when in Navy Radiomans School I was listening to mixed words
when I heard   TENNESSEE
On the air I had heard TENN but not the whole word sent.
The sound of it jarred me.
It has a nice rhythm, try sounding it out 
73 es be a good LID.
I try to be one.
Ed
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