Too hot here in Raleigh to do any antenna work (almost too hot to go fishing,
also) this week, high tempatures and high humidity. You break into a sweat
as soon as you step outside. I was hoping to get up something for the Wire
Antler Contest in July. Guess I'll have to use the wire antennas in the
attic. Oh, this posting was to be about a magazine....
Front cover photo of WA4QQV in his neat shack. However, no description of
what's there or outside. According to the paragraph on the table of contents
page, his antennas are featured on the front of the 96-97 CQ Calendar.
Contest related items: At Least I'm Not a Football Widow (includes a
proposal for a new CONTEST - "All in the Family"); Results of 95 CQ WW VHF
Contest; Review of QRO Technologies HF-1000 amplifier; Contest Calendar -
Internet, Contest Friend or Foe?
Other interesting items: Surplus Sojourn, military electronic gear from
Europe; Review of Optoelectronics' Scout freq counter; Build a Thermochromic
RF Power Indicator (for QRP rigs); The Facts of Life (how to get rid of most
of your "junque"); VHF Plus - summertime antenna installation; Antennas &
Accessories - LA1IC multiband coaxial traps, MFJ's G5RV antenna, plus new
software and books; Doug's Desk - build a 40M QRP Titan; DX - July is IOTA
Month; and more....
Does anyone have a copy of W6SAI's new book yet?
73 and good reading,
Henry Pollock - WB4HFL
henrypol@aol.com
>From n4bp@shadow.net (Bob Patten) Tue Jun 25 18:30:18 1996
From: n4bp@shadow.net (Bob Patten) (Bob Patten)
Subject: Elitists Hams?
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960625132929.17442A-100000@hyper>
On Tue, 25 Jun 1996, Kris Mraz AA5UO wrote:
> Should the Amateur Radio Fraternity be a closed, elite group or open to
> anyone who wants to talk on the radio? I believe it should be an elite
> group. Now, maybe the term elitist summons a negative image in your mind.
> But I mean this in the politically neutral sense: "the choice part or
> segment". We hams represent only one quarter of a percent of the US
> population. We worked very hard to earn the right to transmit on the amateur
> bands; to design, build and operate our own station equipment. I take great
> pride in calling myself a ham. The remaining 99 3/4 percent of the
> population do not have this right. We are indeed elite.
>
WELL SAID!!!
Bob Patten, N4BP
n4bp@shadow.net
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