Hi Fellow Hams:
I have been meaning to join this thread for a couple of days now.
First let me say that I am genuinely happy for those of you that have rigs
like the Kenwood TS590 and the towers and antenhas that make for a truly
great ham radio experience.
I had a similar setup several years ago and enjoyed it very much!
I use radio to communicate and made life long friends; some of whom are on
this email list.
Today however, I live in a place where I cannot put up an antenna.
After having a tower and a beam, I cannot get excited about an indoor HF
antenna.
Therefore, I am using what is available to me.
I am happy to be using Echo Link!
There are some awsome hams up there!
I see that Brian Sackrider mentioned CQ100. I would be interested in
checking it out.
Sure, I would like to get back on the air using traditional have radio
equipment but until then I will use the tools that are available to me.
I wonder what Ludwig von Beethoven would think of us listening to his
symphonies on our music systems or even better a tiny iPod with ear buds.
I don't get to go to symphony Hall but I do enjoy listening to Beethoven on
my Bose music system.
My point is that we cannot always do the "real thing" but we can usually
find a way to be happy doing the next best thing!
Brian, I would be interested in talking with you about CQ100.
My email address is [log in to unmask]
Thanks to all like Tom Behler who make such interesting posts on this list.
73 to all.
Jim, KC9U R D
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Sackrider
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 3:42 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: ham radio and the internet
Hi this isBrian Sackrider n8mnx and you need to rembember that lots of
people live in places with very restrictive antenna restrictions I live in
an apartment am I very limited on what antennas that will fit on my balcony
and I use the cq100 program on my computer this is a vertual hf radio no
it's real hf radio but it's all that some of us have you are required to
send prove of your licence to by a membership on cq100. there is a 90 day
free trial and then it cost 39 dollars per year. there people on it that
are in nursing homes and in hhospitals and they can still can communicate
and on the issue of echo link and irlp they are 2 other modes that people
with antenna restrictions can still operate so it's always that people are
to lazy to putup antenas please think and get your facts before you judge
put yourself in our place I got my licence to communicate
-----Original Message-----
From: John Miller
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 1:25 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: 47 years as a ham
When *I* pick up the phone, it generally is a complete waste of time but
that's beside the point. I didn't get a radio license to talk on the
phone
or the internet, that's not radio and I'd be flat out embarrassed to brag
about my last phone call to NY or skype call to TN or where ever it was all
those months ago and I certainly would never call an internet conversation
or phone call DX, accept a card or anything for it. Why anyone would get a
radio license just to use the internet is well beyond me but then, that's
why I never get on 2 meters, that's all anyone seems to do these days and
they're so happy they never have to actually work to make a contact,
upgrade, put up antennas or anything. As far as I'm concerned, they
shouldn't be any part of radio with that attitude since they don't even know
what radio is if they're calling the internet radio.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 8:47 AM
Subject: Re: 47 years as a ham
> So john, does that mean if you pick up a telephone you are just wasting
> your
> time?
> How is that different than incorporating the Internet?
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