The real ham spirit is in remembering all of this and giving back - paying
it forward. If someone helped you - or you jsut wish they had - why not give
ack to a new ham? Most of us have extra tuners/wattmeters/whatever that are
also needed to get on the air the first time. That ugly to you old wattmeter
can put a newbie on the air.
Time to remember those that helped you when you look around the shack and
see 2 and 3 of things you only need one of to operate.
I know of an elmer of 35 years ago who recently received a
like-new replacement for the bug he accidentally destroyed 25 years ago.
Another ham I know who is in deep trouble healthwise needed a tuner, so he
now has one. It's much easier than you'd think it is to do and really does
make a difference.
Mike, k5wmg
Pipe Creek, Texas
Green cars, slow boats, big dogs, old trucks, little radios, and summers off
to write
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Jim Brown K9YC
<k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com>wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 10:03:12 -0700 (PDT), Art Trampler wrote:
>
> >When my XYL and I were selling my stepson's old saxophone we asked $300, I
> > think, which was fair. The girl who bought it had $75 to put down. We
> >were so taken by her enthusiasm toward playing that after she handed my
> XYL
> >the $$, my XYL said, "Here, you better take the sax home tonight, and by
> >the way, it's paid in full."
>
> When I was a teenager starting out, someone GAVE me a 40M Command Set and a
> power supply for it. I had already saved to buy a used S38D. That got me on
> the air. I saved from summer work to by a second Command Set for 80M, and
> another summer for a BC348. A year later, a local ham, K8CYW, made a long
> term loan of the SX101 he had bought but couldn't use -- because he just
> couldn't get past the 13WPM exam. I don't think he ever did.
>
> MANY of us started out that way, with help from other hams in one way or
> another. NOW, it's our turn to do that for new hams. About six years ago,
> before I left Chicago, K9OR and I told a young ham that we would make sure
> he
> had a rig when he passed his General ticket. I ended up giving him my Omni
> D,
> which I had replaced with an Omni V.
>
> A year ago, I was helping a widow sell her husband's estate. There were
> some
> vintage rigs. With her blessing, one of them went to a new ham, a teenager,
> at a fraction of what we could have gotten on EBay. Another went to another
> new ham, also at a bargain price.
>
> THAT'S the real ham spirit.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
>
>
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