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Phyllis

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How many of you are ham operators? I've been a ham (KC5IJH) for about sixteen years, my father (now a silent key) was a ham for most of his 85 years, and my husband has been a ham for like a bizzlion years (N0KWA, he loves DX.)He might actually have more in common with you guys than me.
 
K5JXH here, licensed in 1961 at 15, Advanced Class now but inactive.

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Bob
 
Been one for 13 years now. Extra class for most of that. I am active but more behind the scenes than on air lately it seems. That's where I know a few of you from on here
 
AE5DW here, the former KC5MFA. Started down the road to ham radio in 1975 at the age of 15. Girls and cars took the place of code and theory so exactly 20 years later in '95 I got my license. Got my Extra in 2001.
 
Do you guys ever do the Ham Fests? My hubby took second this past year in the St Tammny parish Fest "Golden Toilet" morse contest. I am so proud. lol....He got a nice certificate, even though he wanted the coveted Golden Toilet Statue. Maybe next year.
 
I help with the VE testing at Slidell every year and my club in Picayune (Pearl River County ARC) will have their second hamfest in Poplarville on December 6. I might make the Mobile hamfest in April just for the motorcycle ride. I've been going to the Huntsville, AL hamfest every year since '95 to help with the Newsline Young Ham of the Year award and next year will be the first Dayton Hamvention I've missed since '95. I'm skipping Dayton next year to take my wife to New York for our 25th anniversary.

I've known Jim, N0KWA for a few years not but haven't talked to him in a while. I'm not as active since moving from Chalmette after Katrina and don't have any HF antennas up in Picayune yet.
 
Don Banks said:
I help with the VE testing at Slidell every year and my club in Picayune (Pearl River County ARC) will have their second hamfest in Poplarville on December 6. I might make the Mobile hamfest in April just for the motorcycle ride. I've been going to the Huntsville, AL hamfest every year since '95 to help with the Newsline Young Ham of the Year award and next year will be the first Dayton Hamvention I've missed since '95. I'm skipping Dayton next year to take my wife to New York for our 25th anniversary.

I've known Jim, N0KWA for a few years not but haven't talked to him in a while. I'm not as active since moving from Chalmette after Katrina and don't have any HF antennas up in Picayune yet.
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Jim is a pro when it comes to DX. kind of like a little kid..."OOOOH I JUST TALKED TO CUBA" OHHH I JUST TALKED TO GERMANY. Course he uses his old fashioned key for most of the DX...My dad gave him an one of those keys that weighs like thirty pounds, a few years before he died, and Jim seems to enjoy the old fashioned key to the paddles. Have you ever dropped a key on your foot. Hurts like freaking hell. Im not sure if you remember JAN. I used to call him "THE VOICE" ..hes had some health problems and hasnt been around for a while, I really liked him. Yeah Jim will be happy to see you at the reunion. Hes a good guy.I'll let him know you ll be there. Jim has done VE for lots of years in slidell so you and he will probably know each other by sight. this is gonna be fun!OH and isnt this bizzare we've been riding bikes for a few years. I had a little accident last september..caught a little air and ended up in a culvert with the bike on top of me. Since then I've been trying to get my leg back together, but will get back on when I'm sure I wont repeat the accident.

HAMS ROCK
 
Got into ham radio in 1971. Call sign WB5FQR. 6 meters and TV DX was the whole world
(so I thought)

Bit by the broadcasting bug in 1978 and working with a permanently keyed FM transmitter took away the fascination of push-to-talk.

License is current, need to get back in some day.
 
Extra Class since 2001.

Mainly VHF weak-signal from EM55. I don't work too much HF; it's just too easy to be interesting.

Maybe as Cycle 24 heats up (IF it heats up), I may hang a 10m beam. Fun band at the Cycle's top.

DE
 
Don Banks said:
I help with the VE testing at Slidell every year and my club in Picayune (Pearl River County ARC) will have their second hamfest in Poplarville on December 6. I might make the Mobile hamfest in April just for the motorcycle ride. I've been going to the Huntsville, AL hamfest every year since '95 to help with the Newsline Young Ham of the Year award and next year will be the first Dayton Hamvention I've missed since '95. I'm skipping Dayton next year to take my wife to New York for our 25th anniversary.

I've known Jim, N0KWA for a few years not but haven't talked to him in a while. I'm not as active since moving from Chalmette after Katrina and don't have any HF antennas up in Picayune yet.
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I spoke with Jim last nite and he remembers you very well! Small world eh? He's looking forward to talk to you all. Hes the "best man" I've ever met!
 
I'm a Ham operator as well, but I can't tell ya the last time I got on. I'm a novice and KB5PMS is my calls. Yes I know. I was always made fun of because of the "PMS." ::) :D

Jeremy

BTW my neighbor about a block or so over had two 30ft. towers in his yard, a 10 meter (Ham) and an 11 meter (CB). During Gustav, he lost his Moonrakers when Gustav just bent his Ham tower in half. Last I saw it, it was laying over on his neighbors' house....
 
Hey Jeremy, I've got a sectional 50' aluminum tower with a TA-33 on top that your neighbor can have if he wants to dismantle it all and cart it away. Just a little surface rust that Rustoleum would get rid of.

Bob
 
MacGyver504 said:
Got into ham radio in 1971. Call sign WB5FQR. 6 meters and TV DX was the whole world
(so I thought)

Bit by the broadcasting bug in 1978 and working with a permanently keyed FM transmitter took away the fascination of push-to-talk.

License is current, need to get back in some day.
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Bet ya' wish you was still fixin' TV's and sleeping late!
 
I hope somebody wants this tower & TA-33. There's a 2-meter array on top too that had one end element blown off by lightning many years ago. Nothing a coat hanger couldn't cure.

I put this all up in 1975, then the kids started coming and my shack got "acquired" and now I have a 50' tower, TA-33, 2-meter array, Drake TR-4 and a Heathkit SB-200 that I wish I could find a good home for...but not somebody who will turn around and sell it on Ebay.

All the great QSO's I had with that entire rig, it breaks my heart to see it all sitting there for so many years!
 
that's why instead you and Don need to get on one of the New Orleans repeaters and make the area come alive again on the air in a different way..... sort of a afternoon shoe with fan reactions right there:)

I know there are some New Orleans forums devoted to ham radio out there you may want to try however for the radio gear and tower. May want to talk to Jefferson ARC as they are trying to rebuild the shack after Katrina.
 
walker690 said:
I hope somebody wants this tower & TA-33. There's a 2-meter array on top too that had one end element blown off by lightning many years ago. Nothing a coat hanger couldn't cure.

I put this all up in 1975, then the kids started coming and my shack got "acquired" and now I have a 50' tower, TA-33, 2-meter array, Drake TR-4 and a Heathkit SB-200 that I wish I could find a good home for...but not somebody who will turn around and sell it on Ebay.

All the great QSO's I had with that entire rig, it breaks my heart to see it all sitting there for so many years!
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Jim is all over this. He loves "boat anchors"....he would love to have it all. He says we WILL find a way to lug a fifty foot tower to our house. (believe me we've lugged longer home) . Hes especially excited about the SB-200 and the TR-4. So I call all the goodies!
 
I'm not sure if any of you guys are in St Tammany Parish, but I wanted to invite you (besides it'd be nice to see you all again) Our Club is located on the corner of 4th and Cousin streets in Slidell, LA. The club's street address is 2190 Fourth Street; south of the new court house in Slidell. Meetings are held on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of each month at 7:30 p.m. It would be great to see everyone, not to mention the drunken brawls that occur afterwards (just joking) I mean if there were drunken brawls most of us would fall down dead due to natural causes. Please come and join us....I've been craving sitting on Dons lap. lol
 
Phyllis said:
I'm not sure if any of you guys are in St Tammany Parish, but I wanted to invite you (besides it'd be nice to see you all again) Our Club is located on the corner of 4th and Cousin streets in Slidell, LA. The club's street address is 2190 Fourth Street; south of the new court house in Slidell. Meetings are held on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of each month at 7:30 p.m. It would be great to see everyone, not to mention the drunken brawls that occur afterwards (just joking) I mean if there were drunken brawls most of us would fall down dead due to natural causes. Please come and join us....I've been craving sitting on Dons lap. lol
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Shhh... not in front of ol' what's his name!! :-* :eek:
 
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