[rollei_list] Re: OT Leica finish on radios
- From: Eric Goldstein <egoldste@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 01:17:29 -0400
But did you go down to Varrick St to take your written exams for a
Third Class w/Endorsement?
Eric Goldstein
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 11:50 PM, Richard Knoppow
<dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry Lehrer" <glehrer@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 8:31 PM
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> Subject: [rollei_list] Re: OT Leica finish on radios
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>
>> Richard,
>>
>> Whoa there! I did do the search and found that there is a world that I
>> never wanted to enter. I only got my license in order to
>> operate and use radio control model airplanes. I never had a transmitter
>> other that that to fly the planes in 1946-8. I had a
>> receiver to listen to and read code in order to pass the code part of the
>> test. It was easier than listening to the 78 RPM records.
>> I even asked my father to make me a "bug" with buzzer so I could practice
>> sending code. Then I found a real telegraph key in
>> a pawn shop.
>>
>> Do hams still use Morse code?
>>
>> Jerry
>>
>
> Many do. The FCC decided in its wisdom to eliminate the code test from
> the license requirements. Some of us take pride in this now somewhat odd
> skill, including yours truly. Until the late 1990s Morse was still used to
> communicate with ships at sea. More and more of them had teleprinter
> equipment and finally all went to satellite. Funny to hear nothing on the
> old, once crowded, marine bands. On weekends there are often contests of
> one sort or another on the ham bands so things are as piled up as ever for a
> few hours, then the next day nothing at all.
> Collins was a pioneer in single sideband but eventually there was
> cheaper and better equipment plus at some point Japanese equipment began to
> appear, very good and very cheap and now just about all there is.
> My own station consists mostly of Drake equipment dating from the early
> 1970s, like Rolleis it works as well as ever and in some ways better than
> the current stuff.
>
>
>
> --
> Richard Knoppow
> Los Angeles
> WB6KBL
> dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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