Hi. A lot to digest in that message, and I probably won't remember to do
that. I think I worked you a number of times while I was unemployed in Cedar
Rapids from 1971-74. I was K0DDA in that era.
The Iowa phone nets are still on 3970, and I sometimes check in from here
during the winter. I believe the evening net is at 6 PM during daylight
saving time and 5:30 PM during standard time (in order to run the net
earlier in the winter evenings before the MUF gets too low). Those times are
Central, not Mountain. I'll probably check in a couple of times from
Lohrville, Iowa late next week, since we are going there for a memorial
service for my mother. For the last 15 or more years she held the K0DDA
vanity callsign.
73,
Lloyd Rasmussen, W3IUU, Kensington, MD
http://lras.home.sprynet.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Scovell
Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2015 10:52 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: 30 meter signal
Thanks Lloyd. Worth thinking about but I figured it must be some commercial
type thing on 30 meters like that. Some nights it gets pretty strong. By
the way, while I'm thinking about it, I told Sandy the sad knows about Mary
passing away. Sandy told me a little more about their friendship at the
school. Of course, I talked to Mary a few times on 75 Meters but Lynn
Blesh, WA0ODH at the time, talked with her, and some others, on 75 meters
daily. I had forgotten she obtained K0YL as a 2 by 1 so that was nice.
Lynn, ODH, passed away from a heart attack a number of years ago but he had
K0EK, now owned by a guy here in Colorado, for some time before his sudden
death. Lynn got me back into ham radio about the third week I started going
to the Nebraska school. I had been previously introduced to ham radio by a
friend's brother back in Des Moines just before my father died unexpectedly.
He had a DX60 and the HQ129X. I could still see then, I was not quite 11
years of age, and I thought that equipment was the coolest thing I'd ever
seen. When my dad passed away, we moved to Omaha where one of my sisters
lived because my mom was given a job there in Omaha. Anyhow, Lynn
introduced me to our school's DX60B and the SX99 and I soon got my novice.
When I left to attend my last two years in public high school back in Omaha,
our school upgraded to the HT37 and HQ180X and we were in hog heaven at the
school then. I had a Drake TR4 at home and a little 3 element TH3 Junior on
an 8foot tripod on our roof and it was up 28 feet but with the super
worldwide band conditions in the second half of the 60s, I felt like a big
gun on every band, haha. I don't remember talking to you on 75 meters back
in those days but I do remember the 20 meter contacts we had when Sandy
would come out to the shack and talk to you. A friend of mine, WA0MQM, in
Omaha, a long time silent key, used to tell me he could never, no matter how
hard he tried, tune Sandy's voice in on sideband. She transferred airplanes
in Omaha one winter and MQM parents put her up for the night with two of our
kids. Ron was in a wheelchair with MD and Sandy got snowed in another two
days from a big snow storm. I talked to Ron and Sandy for a couple of times
on 20 and I finally got to try tuning my wife's voice in on sideband. I had
a really super fine tuning RIT back then, too, and as hard as I tried, even
I couldn't tune her high pitched voice in exactly right so it sounded
normal. When I was in Bible college in Ankeny, a friend in a wheelchair who
lived off campus a block or two away, had a Colins stations and I used to go
over to his house in the afternoons and Ron would get Sandy on the phone
patch and we'd talk for a couple of hours at a time on 75 meters. Ron would
fine tune his vox so Sandy could talk as she wished and Ron just sat and
listened. This guys called, back then, was K0JXN but he was from Nebraska,
too. Larry was his name and I met him when I was still a novice. Larry was
paralyzed from the neck down and he was also a student in the same college I
was in back in 72 and 73. Larry had like a drum stick, not fried chicken
legs or turkey drum sticks, haha, but like a regular drum stick he kept in a
holder on the arm of his wheelchair. It was mounted so he could slightly
been his head, and grab the stick in his mouth. He used it to dial phones,
he'd stick it in a depression on the VFO knob, not unlike mine on my Icom
7000 VFO knob for that matter, and tune the frequencies, and the entire
front of his Colins KWM2 had rubber bands stretched from one knob to another
so he could snag the rubber bands and change or tune all the knobs and
everything else. The first time I used his station, I'd ask him where
certain knobs were and if I didn't find it, he'd whip out his stick, roll
his electric wheel chair up close to the radio and to my chair, and push my
hand and fingers over to the correct knob. Frankly, Larry blew me away with
his abilities using that stick. I'd operate the radio and Larry would sit
and read, he must have been a speed reader, because he'd read a complete
book, quite large, too, in the two or three hours I played around on the
air. I could hear him turning the pages with his stick. I don't know if
you ever ran across Ron or Larry. Ron spent hours teaching me theory and
explained the questions in the study material back then for my advanced and
extra that I hadn't understood. In fact, if it wasn't for MQM, I'd never
passed the advanced or extra when I did. Anyhow, do you, Lloyd, or how
about Jim, know if the Iowa sideband net is still on 3970? I used to check
in every day from school at noon and to the evening net but I've never heard
them from out here. Maybe they've changed frequencies over the years?
Phil.
K0NX
Phil.
K0NX
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lloyd Rasmussen" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2015 7:21 PM
Subject: Re: 30 meter signal
> When Popular Communications was being produced in braille by NLS, I read
> the
> Utility Stations columns. If I correctly, this was a weather
> broadcasting station in Hamburg, Germany. Its callsign may have been DDK5.
> The audience for the station might be aircraft, since this is just above
> an
> HF non-military aircraft band. My information may not be correct on any of
> these points.
> 73,
>
> Lloyd Rasmussen, W3IUU, Kensington, MD
> http://lras.home.sprynet.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Scovell
> Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2015 9:08 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: 30 meter signal
>
> For as long as I've worked 30 meters, back when it was first opened to =
> hams, there has been a teletype signal I normally hear when Europe is =
> coming through. It is on 10.101 and I copy it most nights. Anybody out =
> eat hearing it better or anybody have a directional antenna the can =
> report on it's direction? Just always curious what it was and from =
> where.
>
> Phil.
> K0NX
>
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