Hi Carolyn,
I understand how frustrating it is to try to get help to do some things. This is especially true when you would like to be able to do these things yourself.
We have to remember that our willingness to graciously accept help is actually a gift to those who offer the help.
Personally I do not worry if someone feels that I am not as much of a ham as they are because I do not use CW. The intent of the change to no code did not increase the number of hams which was the expected outcome.
We all have different gifts and the most important thing is that we use them to help wherever we can.
At this time due to circumstances beyond your control you are not able to orperate even though you would consider yourself to be much more qualified due to your expertise in CW.
I, on the other hand, due to different circumstances, am able to operate as an Amateur. Even though you consider those of us with no code to be hams due to a bad decision I am able to help with Skywarn, Ares, NTS Traffic and Navy Mars.
I do hope that you are able to get an antenna and be on the air soon.
Colleen Roth, N8TNV;
----- Original Message -----
From: carolyn johnson <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Saturday, Apr 26, 2014 03:28:50 PM
Subject: Re: Happy Ham's Day
>
>
> Well, my problem is that I only have a hand held, and since our rental house
> had a new roof put on last year, and it's metal, nothing gets out. I have a
> mobile two meeter four-fourty rig setting here with a real good mag mount
> antenna on it, but no one can hear me, so I'm stuck. This is a wonderful
> location to have an antenna since there are some nice woods here, but to get
> ahold of anyone is the pits. I have a ham friend at church, but he forgets
> half the time when I give him messages to get ahold of someone for me since
> he knows a lot of people. He's so hard of hearing that I don't think he half
> hears what I'm asking him bless his heart. I'm sure the day will come when
> someone will be able to help. I'd like to eventually move out of this house
> and leave my daughter and son-in-law fineally live there lives without a
> parent around. We had to have them live with us since they got married
> because she had to take care of her dad because he went on a machine every
> night, and it was digital, and like a lot of things required sight. I did
> all the things I could do to help take care of him without sight, but there
> were those things that needed sight, and we had to battle with her to even
> do them. She really didn't want to do them, but she had no choise in the
> matter. We live out in the country on a mountain. It's quiet and a nice
> area. It's actually one of the foothills of the Smokey mountain chain, and
> so pretty, but when it snows, we are trapped up here in the winter time.
>
> You take care, and keep hamming.
>
> Carolyn Kj4vt
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Colleen Roth" <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2014 2:39 PM
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Happy Ham's Day
>
> > Hi Carolyn,
> > It can be difficult to get people to help with antennas etc.
> > I have been blessed with people who are willing to help.
> > I suspect it makes a difference who you ask and if you and those people
> > are interested in the same things.
> > I always choose people who understand the value of Public Service even if
> > they don't do it themselves.
> > Since I am very active in Navy Mars and Nts Traffic Handling and Skywarn I
> > have been able to find people to help when the need arises.
> > Sometimes you have to wait awhile but usually things get done when they
> > are really necessary.
> > Colleen, N8TNV;
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: carolyn johnson <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Date: Saturday, Apr 26, 2014 02:40:04 AM
> > Subject: Re: Happy Ham's Day
> >
> >ar
> >ar
> >ar Hi,
> >ar
> >ar Well, I feal like a baby, because I loved ham radio for years, but my
> >ar late
> >ar husband got me into the hoby since he was a ham, so I got my ticket in
> >ar the
> >ar mail on April first 1983.
> >ar
> >ar Carolyn Kj4vt
> >ar
> >ar Oh, my first call I didn't like. It was Kb4eoq.
> >ar
> >ar
> >ar --------------------------------------------------
> >ar From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
> >ar Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 3:32 PM
> >ar To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >ar Subject: Happy Ham's Day
> >ar
> >ar > It was 48 years ago today I made my first contact as a novice. I was
> >ar > at
> >ar > the
> >ar > school for the blind when my mom called from home on a Monday afternoon
> >ar > and
> >ar > told me my ticket came. I had her repeat the call sign a dozen times
> >ar > to
> >ar > be
> >ar > sure. I had been walking to our regular Monday after school student
> >ar > council
> >ar > meeting. I was representing the 9th grade, and the office secretary
> >ar > called
> >ar > out the office door as I passed by going to the library for the
> >ar > meeting.
> >ar > She said, "Phil. You have a phone call." The only person who called
> >ar > me
> >ar > at
> >ar > school was generally my uncle in Kansas but this time it was my mom
> >ar > with
> >ar > the
> >ar > good news. I hunt up the phone, and spun around and took a step to the
> >ar > open
> >ar > office door. Our superintendent was a nice guy and although he was not
> >ar > a
> >ar > ham, he made sure we always had good equipment, unless one of our
> >ar > radios
> >ar > was
> >ar > down for repair, but he called out and said, "Hey, Phil. You got your
> >ar > license." It wasn't a question. I was so out of it, I just grunted a
> >ar > yes,
> >ar > and ran down the hall to the radio room. A couple of friends were
> >ar > already
> >ar > in the ham shack and one was a novice of about 3 months. I told him to
> >ar > move
> >ar > over, I was getting on the air. It took them a few seconds to believe
> >ar > me
> >ar > but when I threatened to dump him off the king's chair in front of the
> >ar > radio, he got the picture. At this time, our DX60 was off the air so I
> >ar > used
> >ar > an A T 1 on 80 meters to make my first contact. I was WN0ORO and my
> >ar > first
> >ar > countact with another guy in Nebraska and his call was WN0OHO. We kept
> >ar > in
> >ar > touch for years after that. After supper that night, I was back in the
> >ar > ham
> >ar > shack pounding out CQ again and having the time of my life. To this
> >ar > day,
> >ar > although I only had my novice license 6 months before I took the
> >ar > general
> >ar > class, it was still the most fun I had as a ham. The guy I almost dump
> >ar > out
> >ar > of the chair lived at home where the school for the blind was so we
> >ar > worked
> >ar > each other, building up our code speed, in the evenings and then when
> >ar > school
> >ar > was out for the summer. We had a lot of the same crystals so we ended
> >ar > up
> >ar > working each other hundreds of times that summer. We even started a
> >ar > midnight schedule which we carried on for years after getting our
> >ar > generals
> >ar > and could work side band.
> >ar >
> >ar > Phil.
> >ar > K0NX
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