Subj : Re: XRF PROBLEMS To : Allen Prunty From : Ed Vance Date : Sun Aug 07 2016 09:05 pm 08-06-16 23:59 Allen Prunty wrote to Ed Vance about Re: XRF PROBLEMS Howdy! Allen, AP> @MSGID: <57A71012.1140.amtradio@capcity2.synchro.net> -> The Mast on my 2 Meter Beam bent over during a storm and my homeowners -> insurance paid a company to replace the Mast. -> They used Water Pipe as a Mast instead of the Radio Shack antenna tubing I -> had used. AP> I never thought to ask her to file a claim on it. I was over there lr AP> Dinner, we had company did not get to talk about her radio equipment. I don't believe I ever chatted with Your Mom. I looked through the W4MKJ 2 Meter call books I have here and couldn't see anyone named McDonald in them to aid in my seeing if I talked with Your GrandDad by seeing His Call Sign, but failed in my Search. I hadn't thought to look for Your Mom in those books. HMMM Roundtuit.... AP> I went downstairs and looked the basement. The room was covered in AP> about two inches of dust. No one has really been in there in years. I AP> still have my old 286 in there and fired it up. Surprisingly an old AP> incarnation of the LiveWire was on it... the old TBBS one.there was AP> some way that I could extract the information. I could log on and read AP> messages from 1988 to 1994. Around 1988 is when I started logging on Tom Curries The Volunteer BBS. I used a C=64 back then and wanted to learn about PC Compatiables. In 1994 I got a 486 Built and shortly after that became a Tagline Thief. -snip AP> What radio communication skills I have was with the Civil Air Patrol I AP> have a VHF radio that can communicate with the CAP's frequency. They AP> still use it... I can hear them on my scanner occasionally. A friend told me of someone with the CAP who lived at 22nd and Bank Streets. I worked at the Norman Theater on Portland Street, so one day I left a bit early so I could visit the fellow. He used a Gonset Communicator, which probably You did also. I think CAP frequencies are just below the 6 Meter Ham Band? -snip- AP> A lot of her equipment is German... I noticed names like Grundig and AP> Blaupunkt (Spelling not correct I am sure) I know from my performing AP> arts she has a good microphone it's a Sennheiser (spelling not my best AP> again). When I was in the Navy I was aboard Ships on the Pacific side, never got over to Europe. In Sasebo, Japan I did see a TRIO HF Ham rig in a stores window. In the 1970's I got a Kenwood XCVR that looked about like I saw in Sasebo. -snip- -> Typing that reminded me of the Ham Shack at duPont Manual High School had -> to stop making QSO's on 15 Meters and changed the Coils in their ransmitter -snip- AP> Even though I went to YPAS for a while, my academic classes were at AP> Dupont... they did not like the YPAS kids at all. Now they have made AP> magnets for performing arts spread through the county. Valley has an AP> acting magnet... PRP now has the choir magnet (Doss lost it) both and AP> PRP got multi-million dollar auditoriums. Valley High school got a AP> nice keyboard/piano lab too and a recording studio. AP> I think the amatuer radio stuff is now at Fairdale with their Emergency AP> Services magnet. They also haveradio classes at Shawnee where my AP> cousin went for the Aviation Magnet. O.K., Thanks. -> EV> 73 de Ed W9ODR, ex KN4ZIQ, K4ZIQ and WA9WSB . . -> AP> I guess mine would be 2XLT :-) -> When I saw 2XLT I picked up a book printed in 1964 that has a A.R.R.L. -> Countries List. AP> No that's Double Extra Large Tall :-) Being 6'3 used to be bean pole AP> skinny. The Skinny ship has sailed. I thought You were talking about clothing sizes but thought I'd keep my comment on topic. -snip- -> Before I started to write this message I saw in another post that You said -> Your Mom's Dad also operated a Ham Radio Station. -> What was His Last Name? AP> McDonald.... -> I bet I probably knowed of Him. AP> Probably... My grandpa's name was Everett Clayton McDonald Sr. Thanks, but as I said above, I can't recall talking to Him. -snip- AP> Seems like ham Radio was very popular in the East tennessee Mountains. AP> If you talked with any of them would love to know. Can't think that I have. Thanks for the Family Info. I'm the only Ham in my family. 73 .... The city is not a concrete jungle. It is a human zoo. --- MultiMail/MS-DOS v0.49 --- SBBSecho 2.12-Linux * Origin: CCO BBS - capcity2.synchro.net - 1-502-875-8938 (1:2320/105.1) .