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A Serious Collection
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Ohio Section Website
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Handbook Giveaway
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NEW 1 Question Survey
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NIMS / ICS
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Getting this Newsletter
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Final
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A Serious
Collection For Sure
Gerry
Moersdorf, KC8ZUL has a rather unusual hobby. He collects commercial broadcast
transmitters. That’s right, for more than 15 years now Gerry has been uprooting
them from their former work stations and transplanting them in warehouse
location near his home in the Delaware area. Gerry was recently interviewed by
RadioWorld and that interview appears in the January 18, 2017 edition.
He
doesn’t collect just any transmitters either, they have to be tube-type and he
has some very big name companies represented, Collins, RCA, Gates and so on.
He’s
had as many as 30 transmitters in his collection, but has paired it down to
around 15 now. He has several of them modified to operate on 40, 75 and even
160.
Gerry’s
motto is never operate a transmitter that can’t kill you if it falls over. Asked
why he started his collection, he stated that he simply couldn’t stand to see
them end up in the dumpster.
Want
to see the full article? Here’s a link..
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Ohio Section
Website..
Do
you know how to find the Ohio Section Website? It’s located at: http://arrl-ohio.org Now
why is this important? It contains the very latest information and news from
local, to international about what’s happening in the HAM world. You do want to
know what’s happening don’t you?
If
you don’t have this website set as your home page on your browser, I urge you
to do so. This website changes all the time with new news coming in constantly.
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Handbook Giveaway
Have
you seen the NEWEST “Handbook Giveaway” drawing on the website yet? It’s
there..!! Time is quickly running out. Tomorrow will be the last day for this
month to get registered!! If you haven’t done it yet, you better get going!
To
enter the drawing all you need to do is fill in a couple of boxes on the form..
(your name and email). That’s you need to do to be entered into a drawing to
win a 2017 ARRL softcover Handbook. There’s nothing else required (Oh.. You do
need to be a resident of Ohio to win..)
The
winner will be mailed the Handbook at my cost. This is being offered just to
see how many folks are really checking in on the website. Got the idea? Best of
luck to you!!
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One Question Survey
There’s
another NEW – one question – questionnaire on the Ohio Section Website! This
question is just something that would be interesting and fun to know.. It will
only take about 2 seconds for you to answer it, and you can see how your answer
stacks up with others instantly. If you haven’t done it yet, please do..
Do
you have a question that you’d like to see posted? This latest question
actually comes from Mike, N8GBU.
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NIMS / ICS
Training
Hey
Gang, I am finding that some of you still haven’t forwarded your certificates
to us yet. Please, get them to me, and to your Emergency Coordinator too!! I
want every ARES member to have at least these 4 basic courses completed, and
copies of your certificates entered into our database. Want to take more?
Fantastic!! Remember, this training is FREE, and you do most of it from the
comforts of your home!
Send
those certificates to me n8sy@n8sy.com and to your
Emergency Coordinator. Now even if you
haven’t gotten all 4 of these courses in, we both still want you to get what
you do have turned in to us so that we can get you started on your way.
Let’s
keep it going for 2017!!
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Heck,
just send me an email: n8sy@n8sy.com and let me know
that you want to be added. It’s really just that easy.
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you passing this newsletter on to others? Please, if you know of anyone that
would be interested in this information, feel free to pass it on to them. You
don’t have to be an ARRL member or even a ham to receive these emails.
You
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were expecting.
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1928
- 1st radio telephone connection between Netherlands & US
1964
- Ranger 6 launched; makes perfect flight to Moon, but cameras fail
1968
- Vietcong launches Tet offensive on US embassy in Saigon
1982
- Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and
disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner"
Remember,
life is short, go have FUN..!!
73,
Scott,
N8SY..
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