From: Fred Martin (mung@in-touch.net)
Date: Mon Jun 02 2003 - 09:48:25 PDT
As far as hams being low class people...try taking someone to the Dayton
Hamfest...where there are zillionaires and celebrities...if they can
disguise themselves well enough...from around the world. King Hussein of
Jordan, Barry Goldwater, several astronauts, Ronnie Millsap are/were
hams. There is a list of well known people who are hams floating around
somewhere. There are doctors and lawyers and probably indian chiefs...if
you look hard enough. Some years ago the astronauts that were orbiting
the earth talking back to earth stations...and the school teacher hams
set up radios in the schools and let the kids qso with them...to get
them interested in ham radio...the right way. Theres more to it than 12
volts, an antenna and standing wave reflection. I have an old army
continuous wave key with a bracket that fits over your knee that you
would look good going down the road in one of your military
vehicles...sending morse code and shifting gears at the same time. What
a challenge to wake up a stagnant mind...if anyone has one of
those...Fred ke8ss
Steve & Jeanne Keith wrote:
> The chances of you getting all the HMV owners in your local group
> to get a ticket are 0 and negative numbers. You will have a hard enough
> time to get everyone to get a CB or FSR! Having one ham in the group for
> emergencies (assuming cell phones won't work in the area) is a good
> idea. The more communication frequencies and systems the better.
>
> You have to come to the Hopkington NH flea market. There are
> hundreds or possibly 1000's of hams there. Bring a non-ham,
> especially a woman and when you get out of there, ask her about
> what she thought of the 'people'.
>
>
> Steve AKA Dr Deuce
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Caleb Pal, Network Operations" <sysop@spitfire.homelinux.com>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 2:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [MV] MV COMM-NET
>
>
>
>>Hello list,
>>
>>The technician class ham radio licence is easy to get. I took the a class
>>then the test when I was 15. There are a lot of nice people using it, and
>>you make a lot of friends. For a convoy, a FRS would work, but if you got
>>seperated, someone went on for parts, etc, you have a much greater range.
>>And as many have said, you can get a military radio that will transmit on
>>the ham band, and will complement your vehicle. It is not hard to get, not
>>that expensive, and a great thing to have. I am on the local Fire
>>department, and I am registered as a emergency worker because I have the
>>licence. I have heard of 9 year old kids taking the test and becoming a
>
> ham,
>
>>it isn't that hard. The CB radio channels are getting very busy, lots of
>>talkover, noise. The requirement for a licence keeps most of the crazy
>>people off. All of the Hams I have met are nice clean people. Steve Keith
>>must have met a bad group. You can get into ham radio for cheap, just look
>>on ebay for a radio, they go cheap.
>>
>>Thats my 2 cents
>>
>>Caleb
>>KD7KAB
>>
>>
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