[Spooks] Spooks, spies, and students

2014-06-23 Thread Ashley Dugan
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Justin I explained a bit about my (very rudimentary) shortwave hobby to my students and also played some numbers stations recordings. Besides being astonished that any type of long-range communication took place

Re: [Spooks] Spooks, spies, and students

2014-06-23 Thread Todd Dokey
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list 73 is a ham radio term that is similar to saying Thanks and good luck or similarly Best wishes Tradionally 88 is love and kisses -typically sent to the operator's wife. 73s Bill and 88s to your XYL -or

Re: [Spooks] Spooks, spies, and students

2014-06-23 Thread KD7JYK DM09
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list 73 is a ham radio term that is similar to saying Thanks and good luck or similarly Best wishes Tradionally 88 is love and kisses -typically sent to the operator's wife. 73s Bill and 88s to your XYL -or naming

Re: [Spooks] Spooks, spies, and students

2014-06-23 Thread Todd Dokey
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Its my dim recollection that these go back to the telegraph days. Seems to me I read an artucle in the 70's about that. On June 23, 2014 1:09:11 AM AKDT, KD7JYK DM09 kd7...@earthlink.net wrote: Visit

Re: [Spooks] Spooks, spies, and students

2014-06-23 Thread ka8...@ka8vit.com
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list And never plural. It's 73 and 88, not 73's or 88's. That would be best wisheses and hugs and kisseses. While we all know what 73 and 88 mean and how the are supposed to be used on the air,even Hiram Percy

Re: [Spooks] Spooks, spies, and students

2014-06-23 Thread ka8...@ka8vit.com
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Messed up the link... http://ka8vit.com/download/hiram-percy-1AW-73s-1925.jpg 73 - Bill KA8VIT On June 23, 2014 at 7:31 AM ka8...@ka8vit.com ka8...@ka8vit.com wrote: Visit

Re: [Spooks] Spooks, spies, and students

2014-06-23 Thread Ernie Rice
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list All the same if some hugs and kisses are good then more is better. Ii have gotten hundreds of young people interested in shortwave radio with things I recorded over the last 50 years. The numbers stations mil

Re: [Spooks] lightning again,...

2014-06-23 Thread Ender Wiggin
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list The local radio station I work at was hit by lightning a couple years ago just as I was getting on shift. We have a ground net in the field around the station (it was built in the 60's) but it still popped a few

Re: [Spooks] Spooks, spies, and students

2014-06-23 Thread Borja Marcos
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list On the subject of ancient long range communication there are some references that your students can enjoy. Arthur C Clarke wrote an excellent book on transoceanic communications and the competition between

Re: [Spooks] Spooks, spies, and students

2014-06-23 Thread Tracy Johnson
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Maybe the apostrophe + letter s was possessive, not plural? Hence My regards and My love and kisses. This will satisfy both of the debate since the possessive is optional. Tracy Johnson On 06/23/14,

Re: [Spooks] Spooks, spies, and students

2014-06-23 Thread Ernie Rice
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Really? What difference does it make we all know what it means Ernie Sent from my iPhone On Jun 23, 2014, at 9:40, Tracy Johnson tm...@verizon.net wrote: Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks

Re: [Spooks] Spooks, spies, and students

2014-06-23 Thread ka8...@ka8vit.com
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list I am not sure to whom you directed your question to, but allow me answer. A lot of terms when used in casual conversation rather than for their original intend use, tend to get perverted. Yes, 73 was originally

Re: [Spooks] Spooks, spies, and students

2014-06-23 Thread Zack Widup
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list It's not a big deal. The important thing is Does it communicate? or Does the recipient understand what the sender means to say? If I spelled the above word comunicait it would still get across. Purists can

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2014-06-23 Thread Laura Pinhey
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Re: [Spooks] lightning again,...

2014-06-23 Thread Tom Sevart
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list On 06/22/2014 23:42, Robert Rode wrote: Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list one sunday morning, lightning hit my GROUNDED tower on top, grounded, mind