Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
Posted on 05/11/2008 1:02:33 PM PDT by steveo
C.Q. C.Q. all ham radio operators, short wave listeners, public service monitors and anyone interested in the subject. I’m announcing my wish to revive the Ham Radio ping list.
A lost Freeper (Denver Ditdat) had the list at one time, but with his absence for almost two years, and his freepmail to me that he had lost most of the original list, I think that the ping list should be built again.
There is a large population of Freepers who are hams. My wish in resurrecting this ping list is to once again bring news pertaining to all FReepers, hams and those that want to be.
I started in ham radio due to my exposure in c.b. radio back in the early 70’s. I thought at the time being able to talk across the country and beyond borders by speaking into a radio pretty cool. My father in law was a ham and nurtured my interest in radio some 20-yrs ago. He talked some on the radio but his main interest was communicating in Morse code. I hated having to learn the code. I find copying code a nice mental exercise now. Morse code is no longer a requirement for a license by the way…
After getting licensed (pretty easy nowadays) I was talking to people across the county and when conditions permitted across the oceans. Most long distance communications (DX) use English
There are many different interests that one can pursue with the hobby. If you can imagine using radio to accomplish any communication task, then there are probably hundreds if not thousands of like minded people dedicated to doing the same.
The primary function is however based in the public service. If anything bad happens, hams will be ready to provide communications in and out of a disaster area. A secondary (some would call it a primary function) is to promote research or invention in every discipline of the radio art.
Hey my, is this up your alley?
If you wish to be in future pings please mail me and I'll add you to the list. Again if anyone wants to take this over you have my best wishes. I just want to see the list active again.
73 steve
K6BZ
Thanks.. I am W4EX (top of the honor roll in DXCC)
Now residing in Slovakia.
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I’m impressed! How many years did it take you? Thanks for responding!
Please add me.....
Can you play dungeons and dragons over ham radio?
Add me to the pinglist, I’m not a Ham, I do enjoy digital scanners and old radios though.
I’m sure someone out there is doing so. Not a stretch of the imagination geek wise...
Add me please.
Add me as well.
73
I started in 1958. I quit around the late 80s when a tragic fire destroyed everything. I was in “top of the honor roll” but never got back into DX. I was K4ZKZ at that time.
It was a few years later when my mentor, Claude Bass, a blind man, died.
His wife asked if I would take his call sign.
Claude was an amazing man. He was a TV engineer at WMC, but fell into a transmitter and blinded in the 50s.
Despite being blind, he could still build fine equipment.
His 4-1000 amplifiers were second to none, and he stayed on top of the list as the number one DX chaser in the world.
Roger that.
You’d think with all the good done by amateur radio operators, including for the military, this thread wouldn’t be in the chat forum. Yet threads like, “The sexiest woman alive” and other garbage remain in the news forum.
Pls add me also - 73 -— AF5LO
KC8OUX
Please add me as well...
Oh yes, add me.
73s...
Add me, too.
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