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Finucane
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Re: Greetings, Terrans
Posted: 12 Apr 06 11:09 AM
Deadders, I just don't understand any of this tech talk.  I still miss my IBM Selectric and WordPerfect.
Deadshot
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Re: Greetings, Terrans
Posted: 12 Apr 06 1:34 PM
Heck, give me my TSR80 mono-chrome.  Anyone remember Zork?  Where is my Commodore 64 anyway?  Think it's being used as a hampster cage.  And speaking of the greatest decade ever (80s), guess who (not the band) has tickets to Journey & Def Leopard?  Oh yeah!  Bust out the Zubas baby!!   Bartles & Jaymes anyone?
Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli
kb7iuj
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Re: Greetings, Terrans
Posted: 13 Apr 06 2:16 AM Modified By kb7iuj on 4/13/2006 2:20:47 AM)
 And oh yes: KB7IUJ de KD7UST!

Don't ask me to read Morse code, please :) I got my license at the worst time: after the Tech/General written exam split, but before the no-code Tech. On the Morse Code exam, I couldn't get more than five characters (or was it three?) in a row. So I ended up taking the multiple choice... and miraculously scored a perfect ten on mostly random guesses.

I actually haven't been active in ham radio for a long, long time. My license is current, but that's about it.

Oh, and by the way, I picked up that license when I was 11. It would have been easier had I taken algebra classes beforehand...

I didn't know they were up to the D's now. FWIW, my whole family, save for my youngest brother, has licenses. It started with Dad a looong time ago (KA7JEX), then me, then Mom (N7RWD), then my brother Avery (whose callsign I don't know).
mclark
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Re: Greetings, Terrans
Posted: 13 Apr 06 10:15 AM
Actually, they're into the E's now.  We've got some fairly new hams in my area with prefix KE7.

I got my Tech ticket just for grins, then found it all very interesting.  Morse was a bit of a challenge (but using a product called "Code Quick" made it much easier).  I learned Morse at least partly because when I was a kid my father, who learned Morse in the Marine Corps as a High Speed Radioman (he could send/receive about 40 wpm!), wanted to teach me but I was a blockhead and didn't wanna.  So I did it in his memory.  Then the General and Extra written exams were studied for while walking a treadmill for exercise --- again more for a lark than anything else.  So here I am with the highest license and no radio to make use of it!  All I have is a couple of 2 meter rigs, and I participate in a couple of nets each week.

But it seems to me that Starfist could make use of ham radio at some point.
Finucane
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Re: Greetings, Terrans
Posted: 13 Apr 06 4:31 PM
Well, if the opportunity arises we'll come to you for technical advice.  How 'bout it?
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