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I agree with you on the the fact that there are nice traditions outthere, kept on going by true enthusiasm (rather than public money) such as Amateur Radio, and I wish there were more like it based on cooperation and unconditional help between people. We might have to rediscover or create them, because we are going to need them. But you must be joking about the royals. Many countries (including USA) had to fight bloody battles to get their independence (more or less successfully) from this family. Plus there hasn't been a British king in England since the battle of Hastings, and William the conqueror took over. They didn't even speak English at the court for hundreds of years after that. This is a tradition of classism and enslavement of the many (World level) for the benefit of the few. We need to discriminate between traditions. Amateur Radio is 'noble' in a very much opposite way to royalty and empire building. Cheers, Adi 2e0ttx On 30/04/2011 04:46, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote: I find it nice to be reminded of traditions and institutions that span the centuries with such beauty and pageantry in spite of the foibles of us individuals (in the Royal family and everywhere). We Hams have such traditions too, but when someone wonders what a Wouff Hong is I am afraid our traditions are being cast aside as irrelevant. Our past is never irrelevant - as Hams or as citizens of the earth. Our past is an arrow pointing to our future- an arrow whose flight is controlled by our choices today; choices that presume we understand our past. So what do we want our children, our grand children or our great-grandchildren who choose to become Hams to inherent in this hobby? I choose a tradition of mutual help, caring and respect for all Hams, even the LIDs who haven't a clue what the rest of us are doing. With patience and perseverance we will show them. Some will leave the hobby, and others will carry on. They will carry it on and pass on our legacy. And the lessons learned at the mic, at the key or at keyboard will stand each one in good stead in all aspects of life. I know this is true, because there are many Hams, now long gone, who helped me as a youngster enjoy and respect my hobby and, in doing so, taught me important lessons about living a joyful, useful life. It's only in my mind, but I remember each of them will just as much solemn respect, appreciation, joy and celebration as was publicly expressed at the Royal wedding. I know there are countless other Hams out there who know exactly what I mean. I've had the privilege of having QSO's with some of them and sharing our stories of appreciation and discovery. (BTW: I loved the churchman who did cartwheels down the sanctuary aisle when it was all over and he thought he was alone!) 73, Ron AC7AC -Original Message- Good Grief..I am SOO over 'The Wedding'...no we got 4 channels of highlightsjust in case 'we' missed somethingThen all the talking heads are ranting on dissecting 'the dress' 'the hairdo''the shoes' 'the suit' and the list goes on...Hmmdid I miss something? I am just so deilighted I could just@#*^!.. Grr...but the Extra Class Licencee has told me to 'get over it'wonder what that means? Gary __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
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I never got it in the first place. Wifey got up at three AM and watched it. She then proceeded to gripe about the coverage the rest of the day. She said some unkind things about Katey Couric and questioned her heritage a couple of times. Seems the wife was interested in the sites and sounds, the pageantry and not the play by play from the talking heads. Everytime they showed something worth watching it lasted about 30 seconds then switch right back to those people. We're getting a cable TV upgrade so we can get BBC America. I said what for,.better coverage of the divorce? Got me out of the conversation. On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 12:54:13 +1000 Gary Gregory garyvk...@gmail.com wrote: Good Grief..I am SOO over 'The Wedding'...no we got 4 channels of highlightsjust in case 'we' missed somethingThen all the talking heads are ranting on dissecting 'the dress' 'the hairdo' 'the shoes' 'the suit' and the list goes on...Hmmdid I miss something? I am just so deilighted I could just@#*^!.. Grr...but the Extra Class Licencee has told me to 'get over it'wonder what that means? Gary -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
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You might try looking at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ - lots of coverage there 73 de M0XDF -- Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, For you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup! On 30 Apr 2011, at 12:08, R. Kevin Stover wrote: I never got it in the first place. Wifey got up at three AM and watched it. She then proceeded to gripe about the coverage the rest of the day. She said some unkind things about Katey Couric and questioned her heritage a couple of times. Seems the wife was interested in the sites and sounds, the pageantry and not the play by play from the talking heads. Everytime they showed something worth watching it lasted about 30 seconds then switch right back to those people. We're getting a cable TV upgrade so we can get BBC America. I said what for,.better coverage of the divorce? Got me out of the conversation. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
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The coverage on BBC America was outstanding, and NBC wasn't too bad. Monty K2DLJ On Apr 30, 2011, at 7:08 AM, R. Kevin Stover wrote: I never got it in the first place. Wifey got up at three AM and watched it. She then proceeded to gripe about the coverage the rest of the day. She said some unkind things about Katey Couric and questioned her heritage a couple of times. Seems the wife was interested in the sites and sounds, the pageantry and not the play by play from the talking heads. Everytime they showed something worth watching it lasted about 30 seconds then switch right back to those people. We're getting a cable TV upgrade so we can get BBC America. I said what for,.better coverage of the divorce? Got me out of the conversation. On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 12:54:13 +1000 Gary Gregory garyvk...@gmail.com wrote: Good Grief..I am SOO over 'The Wedding'...no we got 4 channels of highlightsjust in case 'we' missed somethingThen all the talking heads are ranting on dissecting 'the dress' 'the hairdo' 'the shoes' 'the suit' and the list goes on...Hmmdid I miss something? I am just so deilighted I could just@#*^!.. Grr...but the Extra Class Licencee has told me to 'get over it'wonder what that means? Gary -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
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Just to put another view about about the royals and without going into detail on moral and historical issues, not everyone in the UK currently shares Adi's sentiments. Probably not the hundreds of thousands who turned out to watch the wedding in person or the millions who watched on TV in the UK and that's without mentioning billions worldwide - even though it may well have been of more interest to YLs and XYLs hi. What was noticeable here was the happy atmosphere and the large number of young people out on the streets to see and celebrate the occasion. If we could get the same number of young people enthused about amateur radio it would be great! Maybe the last word could go to a headline in today's UK Financial Times : A near perfect day as globe tunes in to see Britain at its battiest - and best In case battiest doesn't transatlanticise it means most eccentric or craziest :-) 73 to all Geoff GR3UCK - Original Message - From: Adi Andrei e.adi.and...@gmail.com Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2011 9:45 AM But you must be joking about the royals. Many countries (including USA) had to fight bloody battles to get their independence (more or less successfully) from this family. Plus there hasn't been a British king in England since the battle of Hastings, and William the conqueror took over. They didn't even speak English at the court for hundreds of years after that. This is a tradition of classism and enslavement of the many (World level) for the benefit of the few. We need to discriminate between traditions. Amateur Radio is 'noble' in a very much opposite way to royalty and empire building. Cheers, Adi 2e0ttx __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
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On 30 Apr 2011 at 14:56, Geoffrey Downs wrote: Probably not the hundreds of thousands who turned out to watch the wedding in person or the millions who watched on TV in the UK and that's without mentioning billions worldwide That much quoted figure of 2 Billion watching it on the TV is clearly WAY WAY too much when you consider there are only 6 Billion people on the whole planet. Clearly loads did watch it, but nothing like that number. It didn't include me for instance, who was content with five minutes of highlights later in the day. This has little, or probably nothing, to do with the UK Elecraft Net, guess Eric will come in soon... 73 Dave G3YMC http://www.davesergeant.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
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on the satelite, BBC america coverage was good but the local pbs station in dallas showed the BBC UK program uninterupted Pity i left the UK wednesday, i could have been using GR4FRE Dave ww2r, g4fre Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 08:36:30 -0400 From: Monty Shultes mon...@mindspring.com Subject: Re: [Elecraft] UK SSB Elecraft Net To: R. Kevin Stover rksto...@mchsi.com Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Message-ID: c0e0819b-c274-48a3-9e05-d150ed272...@mindspring.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii The coverage on BBC America was outstanding, and NBC wasn't too bad. Monty K2DLJ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
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Two Billion people watched! So did my wife and I (midnight to 4am in Alaska). It was an interesting show of pagentry that is probably not going to be around much longer with all the insurrection going on around the world. Nice show! (or Jolly Good! in British). Wish them well. My ancestor came from england in 1652 so have tenuous links back there? William's ham license would have an L in it for learner! ;-) 73, Edward R. Cole KL7UW -- Message: 41 Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 14:56:31 +0100 From: Geoffrey Downs geoffre...@madasafish.com Subject: Re: [Elecraft] UK SSB Elecraft Net To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Message-ID: 5F1AE83E8195475E84A41220B2180741@Geoff Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1; reply-type=original Just to put another view about about the royals and without going into detail on moral and historical issues, not everyone in the UK currently shares Adi's sentiments. Probably not the hundreds of thousands who turned out to watch the wedding in person or the millions who watched on TV in the UK and that's without mentioning billions worldwide - even though it may well have been of more interest to YLs and XYLs hi. What was noticeable here was the happy atmosphere and the large number of young people out on the streets to see and celebrate the occasion. If we could get the same number of young people enthused about amateur radio it would be great! Maybe the last word could go to a headline in today's UK Financial Times : A near perfect day as globe tunes in to see Britain at its battiest - and best In case battiest doesn't transatlanticise it means most eccentric or craziest :-) 73 to all Geoff GR3UCK 73, Ed - KL7UW, WD2XSH/45 == BP40IQ 500 KHz - 10-GHz www.kl7uw.com EME: 50-1.1kW?, 144-1.4kw, 432-100w, 1296-testing*, 3400-? DUBUS Magazine USA Rep dubus...@hotmail.com == __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
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I just did ;-) Let's end the royal wedding discussion. A little too far afield. 73, Eric List Modulator www.elecraft.com _..._ On Apr 30, 2011, at 7:14 AM, Dave Sergeant d...@davesergeant.com wrote: That much quoted figure of 2 Billion watching it on the TV is clearly WAY WAY too much when you consider there are only 6 Billion people on the whole planet. Clearly loads did watch it, but nothing like that number. It didn't include me for instance, who was content with five minutes of highlights later in the day. This has little, or probably nothing, to do with the UK Elecraft Net, guess Eric will come in soon... 73 Dave G3YMC __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
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Eric just stepped on my hat.. On 4/30/2011 12:11 PM, Eric Swartz WA6HHQ - Elecraft wrote: I just did ;-) Let's end the royal wedding discussion. A little too far afield. 73, Eric List Modulator www.elecraft.com _..._ On Apr 30, 2011, at 7:14 AM, Dave Sergeantd...@davesergeant.com wrote: That much quoted figure of 2 Billion watching it on the TV is clearly WAY WAY too much when you consider there are only 6 Billion people on the whole planet. Clearly loads did watch it, but nothing like that number. It didn't include me for instance, who was content with five minutes of highlights later in the day. This has little, or probably nothing, to do with the UK Elecraft Net, guess Eric will come in soon... 73 Dave G3YMC __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
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Hi all,There will be no net this week due to my absence. The net will run next week as normal. 73 Ian (GR0VGS :) ) -- Ian J Maude, G0VGS SysOp GB7MBC HB9DRV-9 DX Clusters Member RSGB, GQRP 9838, FISTS 14077 | K3 #455 http://www.m0scg.org.uk __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
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You mean it isn't canceled because of some little family wedding? 73, Fred K6DGW - Northern California Contest Club - CU in the 2011 Cal QSO Party 1-2 Oct 2011 - www.cqp.org On 4/29/2011 12:52 AM, Ian Maude wrote: Hi all,There will be no net this week due to my absence. The net will run next week as normal. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
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Who is getting married? Kevin. KD5ONS On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 10:50:41 -0700, Fred Jensen k6...@foothill.net wrote: You mean it isn't canceled because of some little family wedding? 73, Fred K6DGW - Northern California Contest Club - CU in the 2011 Cal QSO Party 1-2 Oct 2011 - www.cqp.org On 4/29/2011 12:52 AM, Ian Maude wrote: Hi all,There will be no net this week due to my absence. The net will run next week as normal. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
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Ha, ha! Somebody needs to convince William and Harry to get Ham licenses and install a K-line station. I can just hear it now, Gotta QRT OM, Grandma and Kate are calling! Be more fun than when the King of Jordan, JY1, was on the air. Ron AC7AC -Original Message- Who is getting married? Kevin. KD5ONS On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 10:50:41 -0700, Fred Jensen k6...@foothill.net wrote: You mean it isn't canceled because of some little family wedding? 73, Fred K6DGW - Northern California Contest Club - CU in the 2011 Cal QSO Party 1-2 Oct 2011 - www.cqp.org On 4/29/2011 12:52 AM, Ian Maude wrote: Hi all,There will be no net this week due to my absence. The net will run next week as normal. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
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I guess they would GB1 and GB2! JY1's XYL was JY2. When you are the king, you don't need a suffix! 73, Rick Dettinger K7MW On Apr 29, 2011, at 2:08 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote: Ha, ha! Somebody needs to convince William and Harry to get Ham licenses and install a K-line station. I can just hear it now, Gotta QRT OM, Grandma and Kate are calling! Be more fun than when the King of Jordan, JY1, was on the air. Ron AC7AC -Original Message- Who is getting married? Kevin. KD5ONS On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 10:50:41 -0700, Fred Jensen k6...@foothill.net wrote: You mean it isn't canceled because of some little family wedding? 73, Fred K6DGW - Northern California Contest Club - CU in the 2011 Cal QSO Party 1-2 Oct 2011 - www.cqp.org On 4/29/2011 12:52 AM, Ian Maude wrote: Hi all,There will be no net this week due to my absence. The net will run next week as normal. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
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Yep, my wife went to Austin to visit the grandkids today, and before she left she told me not to record anything because she had a four hour recording of the wedding scheduled. When I asked who was getting married there was a sudden short but very intense thunder storm right over our home. :o) You guys be careful. That must be one important wedding! 73, Tom Amateur Radio Operator N5GE On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:52:16 -0700, Kevin Rock kev...@coho.net wrote: Who is getting married? Kevin. KD5ONS On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 10:50:41 -0700, Fred Jensen k6...@foothill.net wrote: You mean it isn't canceled because of some little family wedding? On 4/29/2011 12:52 AM, Ian Maude wrote: Hi all,There will be no net this week due to my absence. The net will run next week as normal. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
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Good Grief..I am SOO over 'The Wedding'...no we got 4 channels of highlightsjust in case 'we' missed somethingThen all the talking heads are ranting on dissecting 'the dress' 'the hairdo''the shoes' 'the suit' and the list goes on...Hmmdid I miss something? I am just so deilighted I could just@#*^!.. Grr...but the Extra Class Licencee has told me to 'get over it'wonder what that means? Gary On 30 April 2011 10:16, n...@n5ge.com wrote: Yep, my wife went to Austin to visit the grandkids today, and before she left she told me not to record anything because she had a four hour recording of the wedding scheduled. When I asked who was getting married there was a sudden short but very intense thunder storm right over our home. :o) You guys be careful. That must be one important wedding! 73, Tom Amateur Radio Operator N5GE On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:52:16 -0700, Kevin Rock kev...@coho.net wrote: Who is getting married? Kevin. KD5ONS On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 10:50:41 -0700, Fred Jensen k6...@foothill.net wrote: You mean it isn't canceled because of some little family wedding? On 4/29/2011 12:52 AM, Ian Maude wrote: Hi all,There will be no net this week due to my absence. The net will run next week as normal. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html -- VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile Elecraft Equipment K3 #679, KPA-500 #018 Living the dream!!! __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
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On 4/29/2011 7:54 PM, Gary Gregory wrote: Good Grief..I am SOO over 'The Wedding'...no we got 4 channels of highlightsjust in case 'we' missed somethingThen all the talking heads are ranting on dissecting 'the dress' 'the hairdo''the shoes' 'the suit' and the list goes on...Hmmdid I miss something? Yeppers. The womens' hats! 73, Fred K6DGW - Northern California Contest Club - CU in the 2011 Cal QSO Party 1-2 Oct 2011 - www.cqp.org __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
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I am so very glad I do not own a television and avoid the news. Hype like this totally passes me by. Thank you God! Kevin. KD5ONS On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 20:28:10 -0700, Fred Jensen k6...@foothill.net wrote: On 4/29/2011 7:54 PM, Gary Gregory wrote: Good Grief..I am SOO over 'The Wedding'...no we got 4 channels of highlightsjust in case 'we' missed somethingThen all the talking heads are ranting on dissecting 'the dress' 'the hairdo''the shoes' 'the suit' and the list goes on...Hmmdid I miss something? Yeppers. The womens' hats! 73, Fred K6DGW - Northern California Contest Club - CU in the 2011 Cal QSO Party 1-2 Oct 2011 - www.cqp.org __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
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I find it nice to be reminded of traditions and institutions that span the centuries with such beauty and pageantry in spite of the foibles of us individuals (in the Royal family and everywhere). We Hams have such traditions too, but when someone wonders what a Wouff Hong is I am afraid our traditions are being cast aside as irrelevant. Our past is never irrelevant - as Hams or as citizens of the earth. Our past is an arrow pointing to our future- an arrow whose flight is controlled by our choices today; choices that presume we understand our past. So what do we want our children, our grand children or our great-grandchildren who choose to become Hams to inherent in this hobby? I choose a tradition of mutual help, caring and respect for all Hams, even the LIDs who haven't a clue what the rest of us are doing. With patience and perseverance we will show them. Some will leave the hobby, and others will carry on. They will carry it on and pass on our legacy. And the lessons learned at the mic, at the key or at keyboard will stand each one in good stead in all aspects of life. I know this is true, because there are many Hams, now long gone, who helped me as a youngster enjoy and respect my hobby and, in doing so, taught me important lessons about living a joyful, useful life. It's only in my mind, but I remember each of them will just as much solemn respect, appreciation, joy and celebration as was publicly expressed at the Royal wedding. I know there are countless other Hams out there who know exactly what I mean. I've had the privilege of having QSO's with some of them and sharing our stories of appreciation and discovery. (BTW: I loved the churchman who did cartwheels down the sanctuary aisle when it was all over and he thought he was alone!) 73, Ron AC7AC -Original Message- Good Grief..I am SOO over 'The Wedding'...no we got 4 channels of highlightsjust in case 'we' missed somethingThen all the talking heads are ranting on dissecting 'the dress' 'the hairdo''the shoes' 'the suit' and the list goes on...Hmmdid I miss something? I am just so deilighted I could just@#*^!.. Grr...but the Extra Class Licencee has told me to 'get over it'wonder what that means? Gary __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
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Yes, you right Ron. Gentlemen like you, Fred, Don (and of course Eric and Wayne) have given me great direction in my young amateur radio path. My grandfather (the original W8FGU) gave me a boost when I was a kid, but you all have given my the drive to dig deeper into the mystery of radio. Your guidance is truly appreciated on my part and my hope is that y'all will not loose heart at what you see and hear about what some will say about this hobby, but will continue to nurture those of us that want to continue in the tradition and strive to learn all we can. I'm amazed at what I've researched over the last few years based on what you've posted on this reflector. Whether you know it or not - you already have paid it forward - thanks to all of you. I'm not much of an operator at this point, but I'm certainly still learning a lot of electronics, physics and general guidance about amateur radio from all of you. Keep up the good work and know some of us will carry on the tradition. 73, Dave W8FGU -Original Message- From: Ron D'Eau Claire r...@cobi.biz Sender: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 20:46:23 To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] UK SSB Elecraft Net I find it nice to be reminded of traditions and institutions that span the centuries with such beauty and pageantry in spite of the foibles of us individuals (in the Royal family and everywhere). We Hams have such traditions too, but when someone wonders what a Wouff Hong is I am afraid our traditions are being cast aside as irrelevant. Our past is never irrelevant - as Hams or as citizens of the earth. Our past is an arrow pointing to our future- an arrow whose flight is controlled by our choices today; choices that presume we understand our past. So what do we want our children, our grand children or our great-grandchildren who choose to become Hams to inherent in this hobby? I choose a tradition of mutual help, caring and respect for all Hams, even the LIDs who haven't a clue what the rest of us are doing. With patience and perseverance we will show them. Some will leave the hobby, and others will carry on. They will carry it on and pass on our legacy. And the lessons learned at the mic, at the key or at keyboard will stand each one in good stead in all aspects of life. I know this is true, because there are many Hams, now long gone, who helped me as a youngster enjoy and respect my hobby and, in doing so, taught me important lessons about living a joyful, useful life. It's only in my mind, but I remember each of them will just as much solemn respect, appreciation, joy and celebration as was publicly expressed at the Royal wedding. I know there are countless other Hams out there who know exactly what I mean. I've had the privilege of having QSO's with some of them and sharing our stories of appreciation and discovery. (BTW: I loved the churchman who did cartwheels down the sanctuary aisle when it was all over and he thought he was alone!) 73, Ron AC7AC -Original Message- Good Grief..I am SOO over 'The Wedding'...no we got 4 channels of highlightsjust in case 'we' missed somethingThen all the talking heads are ranting on dissecting 'the dress' 'the hairdo''the shoes' 'the suit' and the list goes on...Hmmdid I miss something? I am just so deilighted I could just@#*^!.. Grr...but the Extra Class Licencee has told me to 'get over it'wonder what that means? Gary __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
