Re: Re: XRF PROBLEMS   
     By: Ed Vance to Allen Prunty on Sun Jul 31 2016 11:00 pm   
      
    EV> I haven't been on the air for several years but can't remember a Ham YF   
    EV> (YF = Wife) with that last name.   
      
   She never was just a wife... my stepdads never had any interest in the radio   
   and Dad exited the scene when I was 6.   
      
    EV> Before I moved to Indiana in 1967 I had been a Member of the Amateur Radio   
    EV> Transmitting Society Club (A.R.T.S. Club) and the Kentuckyiana Radio Club   
    EV> (K.R.C.) and the only Lady Hams I knew were Mrs. Pat Schafer K4QIO and   
    EV> later on Mrs. Terry Rowe.   
      
   Well she was very active for a time with React and CB Radio.  But unfotunately   
   not in this area as we moved frequently during her time in the miliary.   
      
    EV> What is Your Mom's First Name?, I may have heard Her on 2 Meters.   
      
   Her First Name was Anna    
      
   Last names of course were Prunty (Dad exited the scene when I was 6) then my   
   first Stepdad's last name was Lents and we lost him during the first Iraq   
   war... then the last stepdad was Helmick and we lost him in 2006, heart attack.   
      
   With my illnesses, mom does not have time much to enjoy anything.  She still is   
   on the CB every now and then and uses the handle Dixie Doodle.     
      
   Unfortunately her big antenna was ruined in the storm that was the remnants of   
   Hurricane Ike when it blew through here.  Since I became disabled I can't put   
   it back up for her and she's 70... not able to do it herself.   
      
    EV> I was on 2 Meters from November 1976 to around 2010.   
    EV> Earlier, when I was a Novice in 1958, Al Hall K4CSH came down on 3720 Kc/s   
    EV> and talked to a few of us around Louisville to restart the Kentucky Novice   
    EV> Net, and later when I was a General I was on the Kentucky C.W. Net (KYN)   
    EV> on 3600 Kc/s.   
      
   I will have to talk with her about it during next week's iv treatment.   
      
    EV> I also used a Heathkit Sixer but quit using it when a neighbor said I was   
    EV> heard on their T.V. Set.   
    EV> I didn't want to mess up the T.V. shows they watched, so I quit using it.   
      
   Mom would have went over there and fixed their antenna :-) back in the day she   
   was able to do things like that and getting on a roof didn't bother her.  We   
   were the wierd family in the neighborhood when we had roof damage we put a new   
   roof on our house ourselves.  We did Dave Ramsey before Dave Ramsey did Dave   
   Ramsey's money program.   
      
    EV> 73 de Ed W9ODR, ex KN4ZIQ, K4ZIQ and WA9WSB . .   
      
   I guess mine would be 2XLT :-)   
      
   Allen   
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