06-11-15 09:21 Holger Granholm wrote to Ed Vance about Re: Found New Hardware   
      
    HG> @MSGID: <557AB702.14122.windowsa@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    HG> In a message dated 06-09-15, Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:   
      
    HG> GM Ed,   
   Howdy! Holger   
    EV> A Ham wanted to buy a house where all the utilities were underground   
    EV> and he told me that he made sure the contract allowed him to put up   
    EV> a tower on the property before he signed the contract.   
      
    HG> If he puts up a tower, then he'd better make it a lightning   
    HG> path to ground. And he must also disconnect and/or ground all   
    HG> feed- and rotator- lines coming into the shack.   
      
   I am sure the tower he used was properly grounded.   
      
    HG> BTW, I would appreciate if you could leave out that "73" at the   
    HG> end of your last sentence or at least move it to an own line.   
   -snip-   
    EV> I didn't know putting 73 in the last line of a message would cause   
    EV> any problems when I sent the .REP packet to the BBS.   
      
    HG> No it doesn't cause any problems but it doesn't look very nice.   
      
    EV> Does putting a blank line before the 73 help any?   
      
    EV> 73   
      
    HG> Sure does!   
      
   In my thinking, the 73 at the end was kinda like the NNNN at the end of   
   messages that I saw when I was in the U.S. Navy.   
      
   Yes, I remember there were eight CRLF's between the end of the message   
   and the NNNN's in those Navy messages.   
   I didn't want to put bloat in my message(s) by using 8 CRLF's, that is   
   16 Bytes that none of my messages needed.   
      
   73   
      
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