-> 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.   
      
   I never thought to ask her to file a claim on it.  I was over there lr   
   Dinner, we had company did not get to talk about her radio equipment.  I   
   went downstairs and looked the basement.  The room was covered in about   
   two inches of dust.  No one has really been in there in years.  I still   
   have my old 286 in there and fired it up.  Surprisingly an old   
   incarnation of the LiveWire was on it... the old TBBS one.there was some   
   way that I could extract the information.  I could log on and read   
   messages from 1988 to 1994.   
      
   ->  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.   
      
   What radio communication skills I have was with the Civil Air Patrol I   
   have a VHF radio that can communicate with the CAP's frequency.  They   
   still use it... I can hear them on my scanner occasionally.   
      
   ->  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.   
      
   A lot of her equipment is German... I noticed names like Grundig and   
   Blaupunkt (Spelling not correct I am sure) I know from my performing   
   arts she has a good microphone it's a Sennheiser (spelling not my best   
   again).   
      
   -> 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.   
      
   The Channel 3 on VHF never was a good channel... everything seemed to   
   interfere... even on cable it had so much interferance that TKR (when it   
   was TKR Cable) moved it to channel 6 just before intermedia bought them   
   out.  (GOD I miss those guys the old local cable company much better   
   than the big conglomerates).   
      
   -> 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.   
      
   Even though I went to YPAS for a while, my academic classes were at   
   Dupont... they did not like the YPAS kids at all.  Now they have made   
   magnets for performing arts spread through the county.  Valley has an   
   acting magnet... PRP now has the choir magnet (Doss lost it) both  and   
   PRP got multi-million dollar auditoriums.   Valley High school got a   
   nice keyboard/piano lab too and a recording studio.     
      
   I think the amatuer radio stuff is now at Fairdale with their Emergency   
   Services magnet.  They also haveradio classes at Shawnee where my cousin   
   went for the Aviation Magnet.   
      
   ->  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.   
      
   No that's Double Extra Large Tall :-)  Being 6'3  used to be bean pole   
   skinny.  The Skinny ship has sailed.   
      
   -> 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?             
      
   McDonald....   
      
   -> I bet I probably knowed of Him.   
      
   Probably... My grandpa's name was Everett Clayton McDonald Sr.   
      
   Have an Uncle who was also a Ham in Knoxville... He was Everett Clayton   
   Jr. went by his middle name.  His sons also were hams Ronnie and Donnie   
   Mcdonald... (Ronnie's last name is Ronald but don't make fun of him he's   
   a TN State Police Trooper people used to do a doubletake when they got a   
   ticktetonald McDonald).   
      
   Other Uncle definately big in the Radio stuff is Robert McDonald he was   
   the comandant of training for the Tennessee State Police, a US marshall   
   and he's out of Nashville, TN.  He is also the mormon Bishop for the   
   area and talks by radio to the Churca lot... and does emergency   
   communcations for the LDS Church.   
      
   Other Uncle is also a ham but not active much Miller "Buddy" McDonald   
   out of Huntsville, TN you may also find some sharps that were hams down   
   there Elwood Sharp married Rose Mary McDonald (mom's sister)   
      
   Seems like ham Radio was very popular in the East tennessee Mountains.   
      
   If you talked with any of them would love to know.   
      
   Allen   
      
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