[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 17:49:06 -0400
Jerry, thanks for the corrected spelling of Varick and yes I think it
was #75... a real dump when I took those exams in the early 70s.
My 3rd Class Broadcasters license w/endorsement has been lost to the
ether and the FCC stopped issuing them several decades ago... which I
still had mine as placed in a cheesy frame by the radio station for
whom I was working while earning my way through college...
And yes Bronx Science did have a pretty nice ham club while I was
there in the early 70s. My college had an even nicer club. But I did
not have time for either... I was trying to work my way through school
and had to come up with $650 per semester for tuition and an equal
amount for room/board
Eric Goldstein
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Jerry Lehrer <glehrer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Eric,
>
> As I remember it, 75 Varick Street was where a lot of US Government offices
> were located. I took some tests
> at downtown locations. I forget where, but I do remember it was 1946.
>
> Were you a member of the Ham Radio Club at Bronx Science? Or was there such
> a thing in 1973?
>
> Jerry Lehrer
>
>
>
> On 7/25/2013 10:17 PM, Eric Goldstein wrote:
>>
>> 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>
>>> To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 8:31 PM
>>>
>>>
>>> Subject: [rollei_list] Re: OT Leica finish on radios
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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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