Message Number 2 regarding ...
Mike Morris WA6ILQ wrote:
>
> At 05:26 PM 1/7/05, you wrote:
>
> >FMTRU 5V indead!
> >
> >OK COT's [Certifiable Old Timers] - quiz time!
> >
> >1. Who was Michael J. Van Den Branden?
>
> WA8UTB
> Editor of FM & Repeaters magazine
> I gave away a full set a while back...
>
> >2. Who was K6MVH?
>
> Modulated Vibrator Hash ?
> Ken Sessions, who preferred "Mister Virgo Himself", as
> stated in his column in 73 magazine.
> He dropped out of sight completely in about 1980-83...
> His call sign lives on as the LARA club call.
>
> >3. Where did the "Chronicles of seven-six" take place?
>
> San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles....
> and some of the Seven-Sixers are still around, which
> is why there is still a 146.76 to 16 repeater there.... seven six
> simplex lives...
> Here's one, what was K6CHRs phonetics?
Channel Hall of Records ...
> >4. Summarize the story "it started in chocaga" by Bill Harris
>
> The Four-To-One-V, with screws and beer cans all over the bench.
Ah, didn't know that one ...
> >No fair using Google!
>
> Try and find "it started in chocaga" or "chronicles of seven-six"
> on Google...
>
> If anyone has them as text files, I'll put them up on repeater
> builder.
I have part of the manuscript ... are you interested? (You might
contact Burt Weiner for more?)
> Mike WA6ILQ...
> not quite an OF, but I was around then (as a teenager) and
> was listening to 2m... on a five-tube-AC-DC AM receiver
> that I converted to 2m by adding a nuvistor crystal oscillator.
> I hand ground crystals for 145.30, 146.76, 146.82 and 146.94
> using plate glass (left over louvered window panes) and Ajax
> cleanser.
>
> Out in the garage workshop I had a Link (brand) RX on 146.70
> and also a Hallicrafters SX-28 either of which could feed a
> teletype machine (Southern Pacific Railroad surplus).
>
> Later on Will and Neil helped me convert some A-strips for a
> mobile (the strips went into a base station later on) when I got
> a Motrac for a mobile. When I moved the Motrac from a 1957
> Buick to a 1971 Ford Falcon wagon I rebuilt the Motrac to
> 8-freqs (along with converting the Falcon from a straight 6 to
> a 302 V8 and adding front disk brakes - essentially the
> Mustang conversion kit).
>
> The teletype machine got me in trouble with my high school
> civics teacher... I printed out the news reports from Radio
> Moscow, the BBC, Deutche Welle, Radio Tokyo, and VOA
> and took them in to school.
> She'd be talking about specific world events and the next day
> I'd have 3 feet of news copy from each of four points of view
> on the same topics, most of which disagreed with her opinion.
>
> I still got an "A"... the principal overrode her "C-" because the
> stated point of the class was to make you think about world
> events. I pointed out to the principal that if you had more than
> one information source (something she didn't bother with even
> when I offered them to her) then you would not form the same
> opinions as the teacher did. And if repeating her opinions back
> to her was worth an A and having other opinions was worth a
> C- then that should be stated along with the class purposes.
>
Neil
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