Subj : ARRL Requests Expanded HF To : ED VANCE From : Daryl Stout Date : Wed Mar 07 2018 12:49 pm EV>Howdy! Daryl, Hi, Ed... EV>Licensed Hams in those three Classes can still Renew their License when the EV>time comes. EV>I just did that in August 2017 for my Advanced Ticket. If they did that though, it might discourage folks from putting forth the effort to upgrading. Admittedly, I had planned to be a Technician Class ham originally. But, when there was a shortage of Volunteer Examiners at a local hamfest several years ago, I decided to go ahead and upgrade, to become a Volunteer Examiner. As I noted in an earlier message, I am exercising the Extra Class privileges ONLY when I conduct, or help with, a license exam session. Otherwise, I'm EXCLUSIVELY in the Technician Class bands, as I enjoy them. I know one local ham, who is a General Class licensee...but he has absolutely no interest in HF. He works with emergency communications and runs local nets...where most of the checkins are Technician Class hams. EV>Those who fit in that last catagory can't prevent the reason that keeps EV>them from Renewing their License. I am amazed at the number of hams who have no clue as to when their license expires. Years ago, when there was still 3 CW exams, and 5 classes of licenses...one ham realized 2 days after his license had lapsed (over 2 years since expiration). He called the VEC, trying to get it reinstated, but was told..."Sorry...you have to take all the exams again". From what I understand, passing the 20 wpm CW exam was good enough to prove you could copy 5 and 13 wpm CW. EV>You don't have to listen to CW anymore, use the computer on the CW Bands. EV>Make QSOs with a perfect fist. My hands shake too much with the nervous system damage to use a keyer. I would do better typing on the keyboard (like with CQ100), and let the program take care of converting it, both ways. EV>I own a Bug but a J-38 Key fits my hand too, never tried computer CW myself EV>but seen other Hams use their PC for more than keeping the Log. I usually have the log until the new is done, except for QCWA D-Star Net. That one is kept for only the current month...then once the net manager has it, I zap it. EV> EV>... Johnson & Johnson Tagline: ############### EV> DS> That's just a Band-Aid for a tagline that was cut and pasted into the EV> DS> QWK reader. EV>It appears that OLX couldn't show that ASCII Graphic Characters my First Aid EV>Tagline used. It's doing it for me. You hold the ALT-key while entering the number. EV>The BandAid graphic is 5 $DB's (219), 5 $B0's (176) and 5 $DB's (219). Is this what you're looking for?? ÛÛÛÛÛ°°°°°ÛÛÛÛÛ EV>Could You see the ASCII Graphic in OLX, but was not able to get it into EV>Your Reply to Me? EV>Or is 15 Pound Signs all that You saw in my Tagline and see in this message? All I saw was 15 pound signs (that was rather heavy (hi hi)). Daryl === þ OLX 1.53 þ Access denied---nah nah nah nah naaah nah! --- SBBSecho 3.03-Win32 * Origin: FIDONet: The Thunderbolt BBS - wx1der.dyndns.org (1:19/33) .