Re: Whats the legal age for Senior Discounts?


McDave Comments - - - - - for whoever might have an interest....

I lost my old original
K5RHO in 1966 when I moved back here to 3Land....

I sure had me a ball with that ET3USF call. Got two DXCC's in about three
months ......... Mostly on 20 meters SSB.
Then over a period of about three years I managed to get a DXCC in code as
well.
I've still got all the QSL's and the old Ethiopian License (a rather
decorative certificate). All a part of the junk my descendants will have
to go through some day.

In the early 70's there were only about 15 calls altogether in Ethiopia.
They were personally issued by Haile Sellassie. Some of them were hardly
used. We(us Americans) had eight of them. His son and daughter had two
of them. I built a rotatable Tri-Band Cubical Quad and tower on top of our
house there. With a 2 kw SSB Amp and the entire Red Sea for a ground plane
I could work DX a good as any place on the planet. The government
security police didn't like my directional antenna (it was better than any
they had) that but they didn't shut me down.
I managed to sell the whole works to a local when we were run out of the
country in the fall/winter of 1973/74/
McDave; KE4JIO, Ex--- K5RHO, ET3USF, ZE3DXD, et al.;
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"AndyS" <andysharpe@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1127855352.965115.143060@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Andy comments
>
> Yeah. When other guys in high school were stealing hub caps, I was
> stealing
> drive-in speakers....
>
> I've been a ham ( W4OAH ) since , oh, about 1960 or so and was
> building
> my own transmitters and receivers back in high school. It was only
> natural
> to go into electrical engineering, which gave me a good career and a
> comfortable secure life. Rarely have I had to actually do work, since
> most of
> the time I was working on stuff I would gladly have done for
> free........
>
> I have kept my license current ( Extra Class) so that I could
> legally test and
> improve things I build myself. That makes me "old school", since most
> ham operators today just pay a few hundred dollars for a store bought
> radio and start talking on it..... While that is another fun facet of
> the hobby,
> I don't really have much to say on the radio and would typically build
> up a
> system and make a dozen contacts, and , when I decided it was working
> like
> I wanted, put it back on the shelf and build something else.....
> Consequently, I
> have many boxes full of home built.... stuff..... which I cannot bring
> myself to
> throw out., in spite of Joanie's encouragement to do so...... I
> suppose she
> will just dump it all in the coffin with me if she can get it to
> fit........
>
> The monthly meetings and such were an important part of my social
> life for a long time.... Now it has been replaced by the INTERNET.,
> and
> I haven't built much in the last dozen years or so...... but there's
> no way
> I will dismantle my workshop. I feel comfortable in it.....
>
> Dave is correct about the disaster communications, as regular
> networks
> practice on a weekly basis . Lots of opportunities to socialize there
> for
> people who have an interest in it....... There's a LOT more to
> disaster
> communications than buying a radio at Radio Shack and calling for help.
> Rigid rules for network operation are practiced so that information can
> be
> passed efficiently.... Boring as hell to listen to, as an observer,
> tho......
> Like listening in on your mother's telephone conversations.......
>
> - - . . . . . . - -
>
> Andy W4OAH
>


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