Subj : Introduction ...
To   : AKAcastor
From : Ed Vance
Date : Tue Mar 05 2024 21:37:04

Chris,

Between the time I was Discharged from the Navy and seeing the Netronics
advertisement another Ham I visited was using a CW Sending/Receiving keyboard
terminal hooked up to his Gear and reading incoming code and what he typed on a
TV set.
Boy! did I drool over his set-up.

That is one of the items I have had on my ROUNDTUIT List for ages, but couldn't
use it now unless I could figure out a way to please my wife that Coaxial
cables look pretty, THEY "DID" TO ME back when I could operate my Hamshack.
Sometimes I have to Praise The Lord anyhow.
....
To continue the earlier Reply I made today:

All of the radio BBS's I used were local.
The 3 or 4 BBS were on the Two Meter Amateur Radio Band (144-148 Mc/s).
Note: I use Megacycles instead of Hertz because as a child one day I took the
headphone off of my older brothers Crystal Radio Set, and then sat on the floor
by an A.C. RECEPTACLE and put those two metal terminals into the slots so I
could hear what Electricity sounded like (after all my brother could hear AM
Radio Stations over that headphone with a long antenna wire Dad hung up
alongside the house).
With one hand I held that single headphone to a ear and with the other hand I
pushed the terminals in .

I heard a loud BUZZ and the shock moved me back a few inches.

That BUZZ is the same thing as Hum that isn't wanted at all coming out of a
Woofer Speaker in someone's Hi-Fi system back in the mid-fifties (Stereo
nowadays).

This post is getting lengthy so I will end it and begin another one.

BTW No one has to exaggerate when they talk about Me.
Telling what I did is bad enuf!
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