Subj : I finally got my license To : Ray Quinn From : DaiTengu Date : Tue Oct 20 2020 15:15:31 Re: I finally got my license By: Ray Quinn to DaiTengu on Tue Oct 13 2020 01:09 pm Da>> Speaking of which, we had to put the dog to sleep 2 weeks ago, he Da>> had RQ> That is a difficult thing to do. We had to do that a couple of times with RQ> my wife's cats over the years. We now have four cats and a dog. I worry RQ> about one of the cats, in particular. He likes to climb on the roof and RQ> then is afraid to climb down. (this happened last night and my wife was in RQ> a panic. He finally jumped down onto the fence and then the ground.) Yeah, we're down to 5 cats, a bird, 6 bunnies, and a dog. The cats are getting up there in age, the bunnies are about 3-5 years old, The dog is 3, and the bird is 12. The bird will likely outlive us. We once had a cat that got stuck on the roof of our old house in a rainstorm. She never went back out there. RQ> We are "high risk" as well. I heard a report on the radio this morning RQ> stating that more than 85% (may have been 95%) of people who were RQ> diagnosed with Covid were vigilant about wearing masks - meaning they RQ> cought it even though they wore masks. Think about this: If your underwear RQ> and jeans don't stop a fart, how is a cloth bandana or mask going to stop RQ> a virus? Well, the mask isn't really for your own protection, it's for other people's protection. It's more like, if you run around without pants, you can piss on anyone you want. If they wear pants, they'll still get wet, but it might not be as bad. If you wear pants, you're going to have to piss mighty hard to get any of that out of your pants. The virus has to ride on water droplets, which are mostly stopped by masks. That said, that's why masks _AND_ social distancing are important, not just one or the other. If we could get everyone to wear a mask the second they stepped out of their house, not touch the thing, sanitize/wash their hands, and not come within 6-10 feet of anyone else for a period of 6 weeks, this would all be over. Everyone could go back to work, The economy could return to normal, and we could all hang out with each other again. But we can't, apparently. Because people don't want to be inconvenienced to protect others. Our parents, grandparents, and great grandparents that went through WWI and WWII would be ashamed of us. RQ> I haven't tried many of the digital modes, and FT8 wasn't one of them. I RQ> don't have a proper cable to connect my computer to my radio and finding RQ> one online has proven difficult. I have (with me) an Icom IC-706 and the RQ> cable I have (at home) has failed to work lately. I'm not sure how the 706 interfaces, I assume you need a custom cable or something, along with a soundcard on your computer. I also signed up for winlink, so I now I can get e-mail over HF, which is pretty nifty. Even if it does run at about 1000 bytes per minute. DaiTengu .... Nothing matters very much, and very few things matter at all. --- þ Synchronet þ War Ensemble BBS - The sport is war, total war - warensemble.com .