Re: KJ6FOI

2010-02-26 Thread Bruce Bostwick
Congratulations! When are you going back in for your General and/or Extra? ;) -de N5VB, EM10gi (might at some indeterminate point in the future be up on 20 meter PSK31, but for now is stuck on 2m/440 FM repeaters, fortunately accessible via IRLP) On Feb 25, 2010, at 8:43 PM, Nick Arnett

Re: KJ6FOI

2010-02-26 Thread Bruce Bostwick
On Feb 25, 2010, at 9:47 PM, John Williams wrote: On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote: However, some of the spectrum is still restricted to CW (code) only. Right, the masochist channels :-) Or, perhaps, the apocalypse practice channels. It's a

Re: KJ6FOI

2010-02-26 Thread Bruce Bostwick
On Feb 25, 2010, at 9:47 PM, John Williams wrote: On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote: However, some of the spectrum is still restricted to CW (code) only. Right, the masochist channels :-) Or, perhaps, the apocalypse practice channels. There's

Re: KJ6FOI

2010-02-26 Thread Nick Arnett
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Bruce Bostwick lihan161...@sbcglobal.netwrote: Congratulations! When are you going back in for your General and/or Extra? ;) The examiners tried to talk me into doing the General immediately, but I didn't. I'm not sure when or if I will... I'll be quite

Re: KJ6FOI

2010-02-26 Thread Nick Arnett
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Bruce Bostwick lihan161...@sbcglobal.netwrote: On Feb 25, 2010, at 9:47 PM, John Williams wrote: On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote: However, some of the spectrum is still restricted to CW (code) only. Right, the

Re: KJ6FOI

2010-02-26 Thread Bruce Bostwick
On Feb 26, 2010, at 1:29 PM, Nick Arnett wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Bruce Bostwick lihan161...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Congratulations! When are you going back in for your General and/or Extra? ;) The examiners tried to talk me into doing the General immediately, but I didn't.

Re: KJ6FOI

2010-02-26 Thread Bruce Bostwick
On Feb 26, 2010, at 1:33 PM, Nick Arnett wrote: And the possibilities only multiply when you feed that audio from the radio into, say, the sound card of a computer, and vice versa. DigiPan is only one of a nearly infinite number of possible examples of that. All the DSP capability of

Re: KJ6FOI

2010-02-25 Thread Lance A. Brown
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Re: KJ6FOI

2010-02-25 Thread John Williams
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote: This is something I've been thinking of doing for decades.  When I started, one of the obstacles was learning code at 5 wpm, which I accomplished. Did you want to learn Morse code? When I got my license year's ago

Re: KJ6FOI

2010-02-25 Thread Nick Arnett
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 7:34 PM, John Williams jwilliams4...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote: This is something I've been thinking of doing for decades. When I started, one of the obstacles was learning code at 5 wpm, which I

Re: KJ6FOI

2010-02-25 Thread John Williams
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote: However, some of the spectrum is still restricted to CW (code) only. Right, the masochist channels :-) Or, perhaps, the apocalypse practice channels. ___