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Subject: [TowerTalk] New York Times article
From: jfeustle@uoft02.utoledo.edu (J. Feustle)
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 14:35:02 -0500
I concur with Roger and Ted: this article is one of the best things to happen 
to ham radio in quite some time. Linking computers with ham radio was a 
particularly fortunate thing. I got into--I mean real into, like inside of and 
messing around with hardware and software--computers probably because of my 
experiences with ham radio, many of them Heath Kits. Perhaps the hobby can now 
attract some to follow the other side of the road. 

As far as inaccuracies go, 4KW amplifiers are not necessarily a figment of 
anyone's imagination in northwest Ohio. One unnamed ham I remember just had the 
pole pig planted outside his house. The corona off of an antenna in a certain 
160 meter contest is still part of the local folklore. Maybe that will attract 
some newcomers too.

73,
Joe, N8JF

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