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|    Dave Drum to Daryl Stout    |
|    Hamming was:Cooking Basi    |
|    03 Mar 22 04:51:00    |
      TZUTC: -0500       MSGID: 593.fido-classicc@1:3634/12 2685df6c       REPLY: 106.fidonet-classicc@1:2320/33 26852cfb       PID: Synchronet 3.18a-Linux May 23 2020 GCC 7.5.0       TID: SBBSecho 3.11-Linux r3.173 May 23 2020 GCC 7.5.0       CHRS: UTF-8 4       -=> Daryl Stout wrote to Dave Drum <=-               DD> My house-mate is a Hambone. His "shack" is in a corner of the living        DD> room. I used to was - but haven't picked up a mike nor tapped a key in        DD> dogs years. My call was K9DDQ .... may still be. I dunno if good old        DD> Uncle Charlie re-assigns or not. Seeing the newer calls I'm going to        DD> assume - not.               DS> Once your license is expired more than 2 years, your call goes back        DS> into the "unused pool". Then, it can be snagged by someone wanting a        DS> vanity call. I looked it up, and your former call shows as "not being        DS> in the FCC database". So, you lost your callsign and privileges when        DS> your license was expired more than 2 years.              Confusers have pretty much replaced radios as my hobby. I do note cars       driving around my area with elabourate antennae clamped to the bumper,       or in one case, mounted on a receiver hitch where a tow-bar/hitch ball       for a trailer would normally reside.               I dunno about other states - but Illinois allows using your call sign       as your vehicle licence number. I do note some of those around my area.                8<----- MUCH GOOD INFO SNIPPED ----->b                DD> Nancy was a neat lady - who used to come to Cooking Echo picnics -        DD> which were once an annual "thing". She also played a mean game of        DD> Scrabble.               DS> She did that on my BBS. Sean Dennis, KS4TD (he's also an amateur        DS> radio operator) dedicated the game of Scrabble on his BBS to her        DS> memory.              Be nice when he gets the Scrabble door ported to his current BBS sox.       I've already challenged him to a game. Bv)=                DD> When she passed, Richard let me know "you've lost a Scrabble partner".               DS> The one thing I remember most was her sense of humor. In one QWK Mail        DS> tagline, I noted "I took an IQ test, and the results were negative".        DS> Her reply was "That explains a lot. |
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