10-24-14 13:02 Mike Luther wrote to Ed Vance about Re: Biking   
      
    ML> @MSGID: <544ACE3B.13559.windowsa@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    ML>  Well. it gets more interesting if you are real rich!   
      
    EV> 10-21-14 16:16 Holger Granholm wrote to Ed Vance about Re: Biking   
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    EV> I am Left Handed and one time back in 1960 I placed the J-38 Key on the   
    EV> floor and made a QSO using my Left Foot.   
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    ML> also was using   
    ML>  a J-38 strapped to my right leg when I was driving to send CW   
    ML> - mobile I   
    ML>  had a real good friend, W4---/M, who was a fabulous mobile CW   
    ML> op. He could   
      
   A local ham, WA4DYL, back in the 1960's-1980's(?) also did Mobile CW on   
   a TS-520 using a Hustler Antenna with the same method.   
   I think the Key he used was Military Surplus.   
      
    ML>  whip the heck out of me on my J-38, even though I could hit   
    ML> close to 100WPM   
    ML>  receiving no problem.  I asked him, "How?"  He told me he was   
      
   I never got up to 30WPM, I did pass Navy Radiomans School with 28WPM   
   Receiving, but that was after 16 weeks of listening to code over a   
   headphone set and typing my copy.   
   The 28WPM test was 5 Letter Code Groups.   
      
   I haven't turned my station on for some time, I guess I ought to turn   
   it on to wake up the Electrolytics.   
      
   I operated 80M and 20M before the Co-Ax's from my antennas were removed   
   since it was "unsightly" seeing them coming out of the Attic Staircase   
   and going down to the basement.   
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    HG> If you can stay upright with one foot off the ground (floor)   
    HG> you do have the balance needed for biking. If not, stay off any   
    HG> two wheeled bikes.   
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    EV> I am going to try placing a Concrete Block next to my Backyard Fence,   
    EV> stand on it with the pedal on the other side of the bike UP and try   
    EV> starting as You described.   
      
    EV> If I fall towards the fence I won't fall far, and if I fall the other   
    EV> way I will have the missus to keep me from kissing Mother Earth.   
      
    EV> ... Honest, Occifer!  There's no blood in my alcohol content.   
      
    ML> Yes, alcohol can really be a problem with fences in many ways!   
   Huh?   
      
    ML> Back in the early 1970's when I was employed as an airplane   
    ML> pilot and technical grunt I did know about fence this and that.   
    ML>  Remember the little poem?  'You're in the army now, you're not   
    ML> behind the plow.  You'll never get rich with your tank in the   
    ML> ditch, you're in the army now!'  I was singing the song to a   
      
   That last sentence was new to me, I lived just North of Fort Knox,   
   in Louisville, Kentucky and I always heard the last line as:   
   You'll never get rich by digging a ditch,...   
   but different areas in the States have different versions of many   
   things, but they mean the same.   
   I've always lived along the Ohio River within 30 miles of my birthplace   
   Lou., KY, except when I  was in the Navy.   
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    ML> Then this friend of mine told ne, Be sure to be careful how you   
    ML> are before you get in a ditch near a fence, Mikey!  Have a   
    ML> missey to watch over you when you get your rig in the ditch!"   
      
   My backyard doesn't have a ditch by the fence, so I'll be O.K. when I   
   try riding my bike.   
      
    ML> Sorry, that would never happen, I've hated alcohol ever since   
      
   I'm a tea totaler too.   
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    ML> or had any interest in smoking after at a couple years after   
    ML> that some of my boy neighbors tried to force me to smoke grape   
    ML> vine over and over and I HATED it!   
      
   Around my area some of the kids would smoke Catalpa Seeds.   
   I may have took a puff off of one but it didn't interest me.   
      
   I started Smoking small cigars after my last year of High School ended   
   in 1959, and quit 8 months later when I was a E-2 in Navy Radio School.   
      
   I wanted to buy a Heathkit VX-1 Voice Operated Switch to use with my   
   Heath DX-40 when I got home on leave, so I saved $5.00 a payday until   
   I had enough money to order it from Heath Co. and have them mail it to   
   my home QTH so I could put it together after I finished RDO School.   
      
   I figured I didn't need to buy smokes and I could use the money I had   
   for things I was interested in, such as, Ham Radio and High Fidelity   
   gear.   
      
   I only smoked one cigarette after that when someone in my new outfit   
   offered it to me thinking since I was a tea totaler I would refuse to   
   smoke it, that was in late part of 1960.   
      
   My first Stereo was made from two Calrad Amps which were sealed in   
   Epoxy, a Lesa Vox Record Player and 2 Lafayette Radio 6 1/2" Co-Axial   
   Speakers connected to a home made 6 volt power supply.   
   That was around 1963 after I had left the Navy.   
      
   I always dreamed of a set of Electro-Voice Patrician(sp?) Speakers.   
   You remember it don't You?, it had a 30" Woofer.   
      
   ... I never spit in your drink, so why do you smoke in my air?   
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