08-06-16 23:59 Allen Prunty wrote to Ed Vance about Re: XRF PROBLEMS   
   Howdy! Allen,   
      
    AP> @MSGID: <57A71012.1140.amtradio@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    -> 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.   
      
    AP> I never thought to ask her to file a claim on it.  I was over there lr   
    AP> Dinner, we had company did not get to talk about her radio equipment.   
      
   I don't believe I ever chatted with Your Mom.   
      
   I looked through the W4MKJ 2 Meter call books I have here and couldn't see   
   anyone named McDonald in them to aid in my seeing if I talked with Your   
   GrandDad by seeing His Call Sign, but failed in my Search.   
      
   I hadn't thought to look for Your Mom in those books. HMMM Roundtuit....   
      
    AP> I went downstairs and looked the basement.  The room was covered in   
    AP> about two inches of dust.  No one has really been in there in years.  I   
    AP> still have my old 286 in there and fired it up.  Surprisingly an old   
    AP> incarnation of the LiveWire was on it... the old TBBS one.there was   
    AP> some way that I could extract the information.  I could log on and read   
    AP> messages from 1988 to 1994.   
      
   Around 1988 is when I started logging on Tom Curries The Volunteer BBS.   
   I used a C=64 back then and wanted to learn about PC Compatiables.   
   In 1994 I got a 486 Built and shortly after that became a Tagline Thief.   
   -snip   
    AP> What radio communication skills I have was with the Civil Air Patrol I   
    AP> have a VHF radio that can communicate with the CAP's frequency.  They   
    AP> still use it... I can hear them on my scanner occasionally.   
      
   A friend told me of someone with the CAP who lived at 22nd and Bank Streets.   
   I worked at the Norman Theater on Portland Street, so one day I left a bit   
   early so I could visit the fellow.   
   He used a Gonset Communicator, which probably You did also.   
   I think CAP frequencies are just below the 6 Meter Ham Band?   
   -snip-   
    AP> A lot of her equipment is German... I noticed names like Grundig and   
    AP> Blaupunkt (Spelling not correct I am sure) I know from my performing   
    AP> arts she has a good microphone it's a Sennheiser (spelling not my best   
    AP> again).   
      
   When I was in the Navy I was aboard Ships on the Pacific side, never got   
   over to Europe.   
   In Sasebo, Japan I did see a TRIO HF Ham rig in a stores window.   
   In the 1970's I got a Kenwood XCVR that looked about like I saw in Sasebo.   
   -snip-   
    -> 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   
   ransmitter   
   -snip-   
    AP> Even though I went to YPAS for a while, my academic classes were at   
    AP> Dupont... they did not like the YPAS kids at all.  Now they have made   
    AP> magnets for performing arts spread through the county.  Valley has an   
    AP> acting magnet... PRP now has the choir magnet (Doss lost it) both  and   
    AP> PRP got multi-million dollar auditoriums.   Valley High school got a   
    AP> nice keyboard/piano lab too and a recording studio.   
      
    AP> I think the amatuer radio stuff is now at Fairdale with their Emergency   
    AP> Services magnet.  They also haveradio classes at Shawnee where my   
    AP> cousin went for the Aviation Magnet.   
      
   O.K., Thanks.   
      
    ->  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.   
      
    AP> No that's Double Extra Large Tall :-)  Being 6'3  used to be bean pole   
    AP> skinny.  The Skinny ship has sailed.   
      
   I thought You were talking about clothing sizes but thought I'd keep my   
   comment on topic.   
   -snip-   
    -> 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?   
      
    AP> McDonald....   
      
    -> I bet I probably knowed of Him.   
      
    AP> Probably... My grandpa's name was Everett Clayton McDonald Sr.   
      
   Thanks, but as I said above, I can't recall talking to Him.   
   -snip-   
    AP> Seems like ham Radio was very popular in the East tennessee Mountains.   
      
    AP> If you talked with any of them would love to know.   
      
   Can't think that I have.   
      
   Thanks for the Family Info.   
      
   I'm the only Ham in my family.   
      
   73   
      
      
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