Hi Ted: Great to hear these old anecdotes --- on topic or not. Kindest regards Jim K9AXN
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Gustafson" <ted.gustaf...@gmail.com> To: "Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service" <amradio@mailman.qth.net> Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 9:05 PM Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Ham Radio Growing in the Age of Twitter > This may be somewhat off topic so if you don't like it call my Mother. HI > HI > I recall my Dad's standard reply to our request to try something new. > "I'll > show you how to run it, this is not a toy so be careful and don't hut > yourself." You can learn quite a bit that way. Heck we rode our bicycles > all > over the place (within a 5 mile radius) even go for a swim in the river > with > NO LIFEGUARD and we would be gone all day "Just make sure your back in > time > for supper." Oh and we didn't where helmets either. And if you where up to > no good one and one of the neighbors saw you they would grab you buy the > scruff of the neck and plumb you up and tell you to get home. Sometimes > they > would call and tell your folks what you had been up to so when you got > home > YOU where for it again not your neighbor for disciplining your Mothers > little boy. We had no cellphones but we had a party line. My Dad worked > for > the railroad and if they wanted you home they would blow the car horn. One > long and two short blasts. That was the signal for the train crew to get > back on the train cause it was going to leave. Has the world changed or > what? > > Ted WB0TDV ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/amradio@mailman.qth.net/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to amradio-requ...@mailman.qth.net with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
