I hope people don't think I was yelling!  If you heard me and my group on my
2 repeaters you might think we were a little less than professional.  In
fact we affectionately call my repeaters the "lid repeaters" but in fact we
have a good technical minded group of hams and don't do the club thing or
police anybody.  As an example I have 4 repeaters at my site 2 of which are
mine.  The loose knit group has 5 guys running repeaters to the tune of 11
actively on the air covering 6 meters to 900mhz and none of them are 2 meter
machines..  I just wanted to point it out as I have seen it become more and
more prevalent on this group to sign the emails that way.  Personally I
wouldn't bother signing that way but to each their own and further more I
thought I would stir up a little dust here on the group.  Been entirely too
quiet lately on this group hi hi.

I will wait for another time and bring up people saying hi hi on the air
usually on fm.  Old cw types find this really different because in the old
days we didn't have "LOL" and those other internet ways of laughing out loud
(hi hi)  When working at the higher cw speeds hi hi does almost sound like
laughter...

VERY 73'sssssss de k5in Everett Washington  .
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 6:11 PM
Subject: Re: I have to comment on the use of 73


>I had the right idea I guess, when I first got in the hobby, I knew ahead
>of
> time I'd be on 2 meters first so I listened on my scanner while I was
> studying, I was able to hold my own, had to learn a couple things but
> didn't
> do too bad, then same on HF, friends let me get on their radios and find
> out
> how it was done. I was lucky, luckily though, around here people don't get
> yelled at too bad about not saying the right things. It depends on who's
> on,
> but for the most part people let it go or just tell them nicely, like
> recently we had someone on a local repeater I monitor ask his friend what
> his 20 was, I laughed at that one but later in a QSO with the self
> appointed
> new trustee of the repeater, he was corrected.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 8:57 PM
> Subject: Re: I have to comment on the use of 73
>
>
>> Good points, Richard.  Since I work out of my home and monitor a couple
>> of
>> frequencies most of the day and evening, I am often bumping into brand
>> new
>> hams roaming the bands and trying out their new radio on all the
>> repeaters
>> to see which ones they can hit.  I had a guy, new ham he was, call me one
>> day on the repeater and as we talked, he said, I want to ask you a
>> wquestion.  I held my breath in case it was a technical question I no
>> longer
>> remembered how to answer.  Instead, he said, Is it wrong for me to say
>> QSL
>> when I reply to what someone has said?  I laughed.