10-19-14 13:05 Holger Granholm wrote to Ed Vance about Re: Windows 10   
      
    HG> @MSGID: <5444E681.13526.windowsa@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    HG> In a message dated 10-17-14, Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:   
      
    HG> GD Ed,   
   Howdy! Holger,   
    EV> I'm not trying to be too much trouble to You but I looked in my copy   
    EV> of the 1976 ARRL The Radio Amateur's Handbook and the BAR was above   
    EV> the AR , AS , KN and SK in the "Operating a station" section near   
    EV> the end of the book.   
      
    HG> Yes, you are partly correct. I looked at an external keyboard I   
    HG> made for my ZX-81 computer. On that I have labeled the combined   
    HG> letter keys with the bar over them as is shown in the ARRL   
    HG> handbooks.   
      
    HG> Partly because we were taught the other way at the CW courses   
    HG> here. Whichever is correct with me.   
      
   I didn't learn U.S. Navy Radio Operating Procedure until I got in my   
   outfit.   
      
   I was one of 4 Radiomen who just graduated from Radioman "A" School and   
   were assigned to my outfit, so the Chief Petty Officer told the First   
   Class Petty Officer to teach us Radio Procedure.   
      
   When I learned the Navy send INT before a Q Signal instead of a   
   Question Mark after the Q Signal, I thought it was the most convoluted,   
   mixed up, crazy way to do it.   
      
   And I remember reading that Amateur Radio Operators who were in the   
   Military Services way back in either WW I or WW II were the ones who   
   created the Operating Procedures the Military used.   
      
   It sure wasn't the way I operated when I was in the Kentucky Novice Net   
   before I signed up for the Navy.   
      
   Actually, I only Sent one message using CW during my time in the Navy.   
   My outfit had a Home Base on land when they were in the U.S., but part   
   of the Year we were aboard a Aircraft Carrier.   
      
   3 months after I joined my outfit I heard we would be getting on a Ship   
   to do a 3 week Exercise.   
   The Ship was in port so a few days before my outfit was suppose to   
   transfer to the Ship I went aboard and found where the Radio Room was   
   so I could meet some of the Ships Radiomen.   
      
   While I was chatting with them a message with about 4 lines in it was   
   passed into the Radio Room to be sent out on a CW Circuit (that's what   
   the Navy calls a Net).   
      
   I had told the fellows I graduated from Radiomans School earlier that   
   year and when the message came in to be sent one of them asked me to   
   send it.   
      
   I did it with no problems at all, and when I finished I told the guys   
   that I was in the Ham Shack on the Navy Base all the time using CW.   
      
   BTW, this was before there were Navy MARS Stations on bases,   
   the Ham Shack was part of the Navy's Special Services division.   
      
   I know I spoiled them having a laugh at the New Guy fumbling around   
   trying to get the message sent.  Me Bad!   Ha Ha.   
      
    EV> I have to fess up, I tried riding my bike earlier this year and I   
    EV> never could get the foot that was on the ground, up on the pedal and   
    EV> see if I could balance myself.   
      
    EV> I believe that proves that I'm Off Balanced, don't You think?   
      
    HG> Or you used the wrong technique.   
      
   My technique: I stood on the front stoop so I could get my leg over the   
   bike just to be able to sit on the seat.   
      
   I used my feet to get the bike over on the driveway, but every time I   
   tried to get both feet on the pedals I felt like I would fall over.   
      
   As I drive around my area, once in a while I will see someone older   
   than me riding a bicycle, but I've gave up trying or wanting to ride my   
   bike.   
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