[Leica] Re: LUG hams, was opening bell

[pklein at 2alpha.net (Peter Klein)]

Oops, hit the send key before writing my message.

Yes, Dick and Gene, I'm The Artist Formerly Known As WA1KTA, now known as 
KD7MW.  Got my ticket at age 15, during the winter of 1968-69.  February of 
that year was an extremely snowy month even for Mass., and we had two whole 
days of school during the entire month of February.  I just sat next to my 
nice warm Viking Ranger and worked the world.

Not so active these days due to work schedule, photography, music 
composition and general life.

Christmas Island (the one in the Kiribati Republic) is an easy shot from 
here when there's good propagation.  Seattle has excellent propagation, the 
problem is that it is mostly to areas covered by water.  OTOH, Europe is 
via a polar path, so it can be as scarce to us as the Pacific and Asia are 
to an East Coaster or Midwesterner.  At least to those of us who use the 
proverbial 100 watts to a wet noodle.

I believe even the great Kyle Cassidy was once a ham.  He still is, but in 
a different, much cooler way that is not under FCC jurisdiction. . .    :-)

73,
--Peter


At 09:10 AM 2/26/05 -0800, you wrote:
>In a message dated 2/25/2005 8:33:36 AM Central Standard Time,
>r.s.taylor@comcast.net writes:
>Peter - Gee, not only a former neighbor, but also a fellow ham.
>Never worked Christmas Island myself, but certainly knew of it as a
>popular field day destination.  I worked mostly 6 and 20.  Haven't
>been active in decades.  Never heard the "S-key" story before.  Funny.
>
>
> >I've had conversations with people on Christmas Island via amateur
> >radio.  One of the people I spoke with told me was that the
> >missionary who complied the first dictionary of the native language
> >broke the "S" key on his typewriter.  So he substituted "ti" for "s."
> >
>
>
>There are several of us hams on the LUG.  I am active , but also have never
>worked Christmas Isl.
>
>Gene