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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2011 18:17:38 GMT -5
I was going thru my old files, and I stumbled upon my CB license from 1983, in my father's name of course, because I was under 18. I must have been one of the last people to get one. And there is a call sign on it!
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Post by rustynail987 on Jan 14, 2011 20:19:50 GMT -5
hahaha thats funny i have never had a lisence becouse i was born in 1987.
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Post by Sandbagger on Jan 15, 2011 10:36:24 GMT -5
I was going thru my old files, and I stumbled upon my CB license from 1983, in my father's name of course, because I was under 18. I must have been one of the last people to get one. And there is a call sign on it! I have my original license (in my mother's name) from 1974 (a $20 investment), but I can't find *my* first license (in my name) which I got 5 years later (and only cost me $4).
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2011 10:07:22 GMT -5
I emailed the retired amateur enforcement boss from the FCC (I am friends with him), and asked him to autograph it so I can frame and hang it up. He got a kick out of it.
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Post by Sandbagger on Jan 16, 2011 11:54:45 GMT -5
I emailed the retired amateur enforcement boss from the FCC (I am friends with him), and asked him to autograph it so I can frame and hang it up. He got a kick out of it. Who's that, Riley Hollingsworth?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2011 12:12:25 GMT -5
Yeah. On my first ever purchase of a used ham rig (Icom 746), I won an auction on ebay, from (you guessed it). We became friends, because I went out there to pick it up. I had no idea who he was, and spoke to him is such a manner. I guess he got a kick out of it.
Anyway, we became friends, and he actually came and spoke to our radio club. You can see a pic on my QRZ page (N4NYY). So when I found the license, I emailed him a pic, and he thought it was pretty funny. Called it a collector's item. I cannot believe I still had the thing.
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Post by Sandbagger on Jan 16, 2011 17:37:41 GMT -5
Yeah. On my first ever purchase of a used ham rig (Icom 746), I won an auction on ebay, from (you guessed it). We became friends, because I went out there to pick it up. I had no idea who he was, and spoke to him is such a manner. I guess he got a kick out of it. Anyway, we became friends, and he actually came and spoke to our radio club. You can see a pic on my QRZ page (N4NYY). So when I found the license, I emailed him a pic, and he thought it was pretty funny. Called it a collector's item. I cannot believe I still had the thing. Just out of curiousity, how did you end up with a 4-land callsign when you live in 2-land?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2011 18:10:42 GMT -5
Vanity. The dang 2 guy was in Tennessee!
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Post by Sandbagger on Jan 16, 2011 20:38:21 GMT -5
Vanity. The dang 2 guy was in Tennessee! Yea, I guess nowadays it doesn't matter. Once upon a time you had to have a call that reflected your location. If you moved to a different call district, you had to change calls. That's changed, but it can be frustrating. I was dialing around 2 meter SSB one night and caught a 5 land call and thought I had a tropo opening, but come to find out he was 10 miles down the road having transplanted from Texas. Darn!
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Post by rustynail987 on Jan 17, 2011 11:31:24 GMT -5
hey sandbagger what is sideband like on 2meters? is it almost like 27.385LSB? on 11meters?
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Post by Sandbagger on Jan 17, 2011 14:32:30 GMT -5
hey sandbagger what is sideband like on 2meters? is it almost like 27.385LSB? on 11meters? Yea, it pretty much sounds similar. The only thing different is the frequency and the type of propagation you can expect. SSB use on 2 meters is done mostly by hams looking to squeeze the most distance out of a band which normally doesn't yield much skywave propagation. Occasional sporadic-E skip and some ducting make things interesting. But it's less prevalent than that found on the lower bands.
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Post by rustynail987 on Jan 18, 2011 12:43:18 GMT -5
wow thats cool sandbagger but the bad part about it if i understand right you dont get much propagation at all. also sandbagger i was wonderin if you have a 2meter repeater around your area becouse we have one by me and its on 146.860 and i was wonderin if you can pick up some of the hams from my area?
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Post by spitfire441 on Jan 18, 2011 17:56:41 GMT -5
wow thats cool sandbagger but the bad part about it if i understand right you dont get much propagation at all. also sandbagger i was wonderin if you have a 2meter repeater around your area becouse we have one by me and its on 146.860 and i was wonderin if you can pick up some of the hams from my area? Propagation on 2 meters is just different than the HF bands. I have a 13 element yagi and 150 watts on 2m ssb. I can talk about 150 miles every day to similarly equiped stations. Now there is a propagation mode called tropospheric ducting that happens in the VHF spectrum. It basically creates a long low loss path in a givin direction. I have worked down to Florida and up to the Canadian maritime provinces when the "tropo" opens on 2m. Sporadic "E" also happens on 2m, just like on 11m. It does not happen often, MAYBE once or twice a year you can catch "E" skip on 2m. I have worked out to all the states that border the Misssissippi river as well as up north and down south ditances that are thought to be impossible on 2m, via "spradic "E". As for 2m FM repeaters, they are local in nature. Typically FM is not a very good mode to support much skip. When tropo happens you'll be able to hit repeaters alot farther away than is normal, but you are too far from PA for that, although I have worked MI on 2m ssb from here.
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Post by rustynail987 on Jan 20, 2011 10:55:12 GMT -5
thats kool spitfire who have you worked here in michigan? on 2m ssb?
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Post by Tombstone (R.I.P.) on Jan 25, 2011 18:20:16 GMT -5
That's way cool that you guys found your old licenses. I wish that I would have kept mine. My first license was from 1965 and I was issued KRP-7325, it expired and I sent the money and was isued KALT-7308, that ran out and I sent the money again but that's about the time that they stopped issuing licences and I never did get a callsign or my money back, ripped off as usual.
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Post by rustynail987 on Jan 25, 2011 20:27:38 GMT -5
sorry to hear tombstone that they never gave you your money back. now we see how uncle charle works and all he wants to do is rip people off.
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