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« Reply #25 on: January 26, 2013, 02:51:07 PM »

Kinda like those Members Only jackets.  Wink

Kinda.  Except the slogan wouldn't fit.

"when you put it on, something happens"

I would rather have an ARRL ring so I can get past the fire department perimeter.
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« Reply #26 on: January 26, 2013, 02:52:39 PM »

Yea something happens - your wallet is a lot thinner!
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« Reply #27 on: January 26, 2013, 04:56:37 PM »

It depends on whether you want gold or silver.
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« Reply #28 on: January 26, 2013, 06:39:01 PM »

Geoff Mendenhall was leader of my team at Broadcast Electronics Inc. when we got into FM transmitter biz in 1980s. He worked closely with me and taught me lots about transmitters. When I didn't have a suitable station for a few years, he loaned me his old WRO Galaxy transceiver to get me on 20 meters. Eventually I left Quincy to work in scientific and industrial RF power, but never lost touch with Geoff. He moved back over to big H (Harris, down the street) and has innovated there for decades since, now in their Ohio center. He was right on the mark about how hams influence commercial electronics and visa versa and continue to. Sure there are many P&P operators out there who will never make a mark on technology, but they have a place on the air too. Maybe they learn about some technology, not being broadcaster engineers and such. As the other thread here about "who came from broadcast engineering" pointed out, there is a lot of mixing between hamdom and broadcast engineering. Same can be said about other RF-related technologies, not only with tubes. I remember clipping out amplifier articles from QST when I was in ARRL (as a teen), saving them for the day....
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« Reply #29 on: January 26, 2013, 11:02:16 PM »

Kinda like those Members Only jackets.  Wink

Kinda.  Except the slogan wouldn't fit.

"when you put it on, something happens"

I would rather have an ARRL ring so I can get past the fire department perimeter.

The orange vest is cheaper! haha! but you have to hang at least three HTs and a mag-light from it to not look like a piker.

to steal from a saying..
"Don't put nuthin' on, nuthin' gets put on"

(cop@scene: "Mister, are you puttin' me on?")
(Willy Wackerham: "Gobble gobble cackle sputter..")

Sorry don't mean to be mean but it is funny. Spice of life. It looks bad to slip in using magic charms like rings, jackets, and talisman-festooned vests. How some hams can do that and not be simultaneously embarrassed at themselves in a mysterious thing. Good thing those are the very few.

In the same breath, hams who experiment and bring their smarts and employment-knowledge to the hobbby are always inventing things that become commercial practices.
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« Reply #30 on: January 27, 2013, 09:38:39 AM »

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Kinda.  Except the slogan wouldn't fit.

"when you put it on, something happens"

I would rather have an ARRL ring so I can get past the fire department perimeter.
 --Paul/VJB
 
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Re: In Defense of Ham Radio

« Reply #26 on: Yesterday at 03:52:39 PM »

Yea something happens - your wallet is a lot thinner!
 
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« Reply #27 on: Yesterday at 05:56:37 PM »
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It depends on whether you want gold or silver.

Ok, Ok,  I give.
 Embarrassed
Well we could start another golden circle. "Le WTFFD circle."
Starting with the memory of the  dulcet tones of ZRF.
Note his very clean AM signal.


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« Reply #31 on: January 27, 2013, 10:12:17 AM »

I remember when I helped start an ARES group in Alabama in the late 1980's. Things were going good until someone talked everyone (except me) into getting orange vests. I told them,"Joe don't do vests". I got shunned like the plague. Most of my Elmers were connected with broadcast engineering. Am enjoying the discussion!
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« Reply #32 on: January 27, 2013, 12:05:28 PM »

Yes, the AYMMFOT Net!



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Kinda.  Except the slogan wouldn't fit.

"when you put it on, something happens"

I would rather have an ARRL ring so I can get past the fire department perimeter.
 --Paul/VJB
 
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Re: In Defense of Ham Radio

« Reply #26 on: Yesterday at 03:52:39 PM »

Yea something happens - your wallet is a lot thinner!
 
Pete, WA2CWA
« Reply #27 on: Yesterday at 05:56:37 PM »
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It depends on whether you want gold or silver.

Ok, Ok,  I give.
 Embarrassed
Well we could start another golden circle. "Le WTFFD circle."
Starting with the memory of the  dulcet tones of ZRF.
Note his very clean AM signal.
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« Reply #33 on: January 27, 2013, 03:13:02 PM »

Orange vest, a silver badge, and a hat; be the hit of the group.

   

I think I saw this guy at a flea market:



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