Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ernie No code? Really? When I got my license there was only one kind, FULL. I only got it so that I could build and use radio control model airplanes, but my interest grew. It was the big thing in high school to have a ham license. (Our school had a station.) Just as in college, the big thing was to have a pilots license for all of us Aero Engineer types. Jerry Ernest Nitka wrote: > I have to admit that I too am a 'ham"ster - N2PFL. A no code tech license > because if I try to learn code I will inevitably forget something that I > need to be a doctor ! I have gone to carrying a handheld with me as the > Cell system is absolutely worthless in an emergency - even if it's snowing > the cell system is clogged with crap. > > ernie nitka > > At 09:53 AM 5/14/03 -0500, you wrote: > > >Another interesting aspect of the "Dead" amateur radio technology is that > >when an emergency takes place, 90% of all communications take place through > >amateur radio. Not bad for a dead technology... > > > >Gene > > > > > > > > > > > > "Bill > > Grimwood" > > > > <bill@grimwood.net> To: > > <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > > Sent > > by: cc: > > > > owner-leica-users@mejac.palo Subject: Re: > > [Leica] OT - Dayton Hamvention > > -alto.ca.us > > > > > > > > > > > > 05/14/2003 08:55 > > AM > > > > Please respond > > to > > > > leica-users > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >Yes you can but you do not have the magic of radio. I can get on the air > >when the power is off to. > > > >Bill G. > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Dan C" <leicaman@sympatico.ca> > >To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > >Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 7:16 AM > >Subject: Re: [Leica] OT - Dayton Hamvention > > > > > > > Or you can just login to a server on IRC (or ICQ, AIM, MSN, etc.) and > >chat > > > with anyone in the world. No license, no antenna, no transmitter, no > > > worries about sunspots or bad reception. Hook up a microphone at both > >ends > > > if you actually want to hear their voices (I don't). > > > > > > dan c. > > > > > > At 07:46 AM 14-05-03 -0700, you wrote: > > > >There are repeaters that interface with the internet. You can sit at > >your > > > >computer and join in a QSO on a local repeater in many parts of the > >world. > > > > > > > >Gene > > > >N4JEE > > > > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > > > > > > > > >-- > >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > > > > > > > > >-- > >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html