08-04-16 15:36 Allen Prunty wrote to Ed Vance about Re: XRF PROBLEMS   
   Howdy! Allen,   
      
    AP> @MSGID: <57A3BD3C.1131.amtradio@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    AP>   Re: Re: XRF PROBLEMS   
    AP>   By: Ed Vance to Allen Prunty on Sun Jul 31 2016 11:00 pm   
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    EV> What is Your Mom's First Name?, I may have heard Her on 2 Meters.   
      
    AP> Her First Name was Anna   
      
   Thanks, I can't remember speaking to any one named Anna on the air.   
      
    AP> Last names of course were Prunty (Dad exited the scene when I was 6)   
    AP> then my first Stepdad's last name was Lents and we lost him during the   
    AP> first Iraq war... then the last stepdad was Helmick and we lost him in   
    AP> 2006, heart attack.   
      
    AP> With my illnesses, mom does not have time much to enjoy anything.  She   
    AP> still is on the CB every now and then and uses the handle Dixie Doodle.   
      
   I was 16 in June 1958 when I got my Novice License in the mail.   
   IIRC, the Citizens Band Radio Service began in September 1958.   
      
   If I had wanted to be a CB'er, I would had had to wait two years to apply   
   for a CB License since I wasn't 18 years old.   
      
   I never submitted a form to the F.C.C. to operate a CB set, because I   
   have continued taking Tests to upgrade to a higher Amateur Radio Class,   
   and have keep remembering to Renew my License on time.   
      
   I'll have to renew again in October 2017.   
      
    AP> Unfortunately her big antenna was ruined in the storm that was the   
    AP> remnants of Hurricane Ike when it blew through here.  Since I became   
    AP> disabled I can't put it back up for her and she's 70... not able to do   
    AP> it herself.   
      
   The Mast on my 2 Meter Beam bent over during a storm and my homeowners   
   insurance paid a company to replace the Mast.   
   They used Water Pipe as a Mast instead of the Radio Shack antenna tubing I   
   had used.   
      
    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.   
      
    AP> 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.   
      
    AP> Mom would have went over there and fixed their antenna :-) back in the   
    AP> day she was able to do things like that and getting on a roof didn't   
    AP> bother her.  We were the wierd family in the neighborhood when we had   
    AP> roof damage we put a new roof on our house ourselves.  We did Dave   
    AP> Ramsey before Dave Ramsey did Dave Ramsey's money program.   
      
   When my neighbor watched a show on WAVE TV Channel 3 (60-66 mc/s) my Sixer   
   on 50 mc/s came through Loud And Clear, something a TV Antenna Filter   
   couldn't fix.   
      
   Typing that reminded me of the Ham Shack at duPont Manual High School had   
   to stop making QSO's on 15 Meters and changed the Coils in their Transmitter   
   from 15 Meters to the 20 Meter Coils because a near by home used an older   
   Television Set with an I.F. frequency of 21 mc/s and every time the Ham   
   Shack transmitted on 15 Meters the people would call the School and   
   complain that they couldn't watch T.V. when the Students were on the air.   
      
    EV> 73 de Ed W9ODR, ex KN4ZIQ, K4ZIQ and WA9WSB . .   
      
    AP> I guess mine would be 2XLT :-)   
      
   When I saw 2XLT I picked up a book printed in 1964 that has a A.R.R.L.   
   Countries List.   
      
   The first Amateur Radio Prefix that started with a number in that list   
   is Morroco - 3A .   
   I don't have a current country list of prefixes to know what Country has   
   Call Signs that started with 2X , but I never tried to earn a DXCC   
   Certificate, so I'm just familiar with U.S. Prefixes W, K, N and A might   
   also be a Amateur Radio Prefix.   
      
   I also know VE Stations are in Canada and VK'ers are in Australia and   
   Stations in Great Britin have a G Prefix.   
      
   I don't know it all, but still working on that.   
      
   Before I started to write this message I saw in another post that You said   
   Your Mom's Dad also operated a Ham Radio Station.   
      
   What was His Last Name?   
   I bet I probably knowed of Him.   
      
   Thanks, 73  . .   
      
      
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