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VE3WBZ > PACKET 20.09.11 20:55l 135 Lines 5990 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Hi Again Warren ...we're left
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From: VE3WBZ@VA3BAL.#SCON.ON.CAN.NOAM
To : PACKET@WW
TO: PACKET @WW
FR: VE3WBZ
DT: Tuesday, September 20th.,2011 @ 1458hrs EST <JPST>
<< Quoting KB2VXA to PACKET @WW >>
> From : KB2VXA To : PACKET@WW
> Type/Status : B$ Date/Time : 20-Sep 15:13
> Bid : 7441_VK6ZRT Message # : 107694
> Title : Re: VE3WBZ > Anyone left?
>
> Hi Pete and all,
>
> To get it out of the way first while it's on my mind, I just
> discovered the mechanism of a small problem. All along the text
> in anything displaying it takes the occasional jump by a few
> lines and since I installed MouseWiz to enable the scroll wheel
> Winpack has eaten the beans too... Mexican jumping beans.
> Looks like I'll have to borrow a mouse somewhere to further
> diagnose the problem, hardware or driver.
Hi Warren and "all" ... and well for the mouse, mine has gone SOUTH
and I am going to the junk pile later today to see if I have a
replacement, if I can not cure this.
> That having been said, since Trolley Wally is hiding out in
> South America it looks like Odessa is still in operation. Too bad
> I missed looking at the R lines, a callsign lookup would have
> narrowed it down for Weasel.
> (;->)
Poor Poor Andy. "Weasel"? That reminds me of the day I asked him
for help to help a blind whitecaner ham living close to me, and well
never did get an answer from him, but he certainly answered the
postings ..but then alast, I hear our local ham has passed away...
hmmm yes the name seems to fit.
One ham in UK asked him about his new BBS home address, and well
he might have forgotten that most I hear banned him from their
BBS. Funny how he still gets replys but never answers.
Whatever happened to Weirdo Glen? He was supposed to be making his
presnce felt.
> Bob only said he doesn't have Winpack on "this computer" so putting the
> pieces together he was referring to the desktop he never installed it in
> and either sold or gave away the laptop. I offered to send him the
> installer since it's only a few K and easily goes as an e-mail attachment
> in case he misplaced his copy. We'll see where it goes from here.
Aaaah ...I see there is a new spin on the King of Albania. His text
to me was something about giving his packet equipment away, which
I assumed to be the TNC etc ...but it is the laptop. Oh well
I hope he comes back too after a rest.
> Johnson Messenger II, if I'm not mistaken that's the "white face" model
> with enough chrome to qualify as a 1957 Cadillac with tubes. The good
> thing about boat anchors beside being easy to work on they were nearly
> immune to smoke damage. That's like the old juke boxes before CDs and
> lasers, even the solid state amps of the day used discreet components and
> just as well considering the smoky environments they were in. Being
> careful to avoid getting liquid inside the transformers I washed them in
> ammonium hydroxide (that'll take your skin off) and rinsed with water,
> then dried them with compressed air. Hmmm, is it new or is it power
> washed? Try THAT with today's ham rigs and suddenly you find you washed a
> kilobuck down the drain.
The Johnnie one was the chrome. The Johhnie 2 blackfaced with tuneing
receiver to the right. I had a friend that had a Johnnie one, and
only remember it cause from the penhouse apartment in Central Toronto
was the best broadcast I heard of a guy trying to get a girl over
to his pad...I wanted the otherside...but then when the phone call
was over...a phone rang again...and then the transmission stopped
and that was that...until he arrived at the door, and hid in the
basement afraid that the RC M Pee and the DOC were on his trail.
hahahahahaha....
Yeah .... the newer things are guranteed a few years...then kaput
and buy a new one....
> FB on the star party, here's wishing you clear skies and above freezing
> temperatures. An amateur astronomer/ham friend and I had a private party
> once, we had the site all picked out being nearly ideal with minimal
> light pollution and the tree line low on the horizon. We packed the
> telescope in my hatchback and rode with the windows down to aclimate the
> scope and freeze our butts off in the process, then lugged the beast into
> the middle of the field. Just as he zeroed in on the Andromeda Nebula I
> spotted disaster on the horizon, within minutes the sky was overcast. Oh
> well, we packed it in, thanked Murphy and called it a night.
OK ... great story BTW .... you know the drill then. I have checked
WX and not too promising...so looks like a hello ..and greet and then
home after a weekend in the RAIN ... No info as to sky conditions
at night... so I have today...tomorrow and then we leave early and stop
along the way at other places to arrive there Friday... SO... hope
for better conditions then I am seeing. The RAIN they sure could use
in TEXAS right now ... I have seen the news and TEXAS is in dire need.
> Born under a bad sign
> I've been down since I began to crawl
> If it wasn't for bad luck
> I'd have no luck at all
>
> If you want my complete moan just look it up on line, the first line is
> the title.
I have read a few onliners from you. Some really hate you Warren.
Just cheap shots and nothing really to even comment on...I think
they hate you because you might have constructive opinions.
Oh well...thats the world.
> 73 de Warren
>
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>
> Message timed by NIST: 15:06 on 2011-Sep-20 GMT
>
> [End of Message #107694 from KB2VXA]
I gotta get one either early or late for BOB..and get the real story.
No IAN yet... silly vampire forgot his password for Skype... or
he got shotdown by a Eurofighter .... So better go and see my latest
WX and well back to packing the Submarine. I do remember the
scopes all outside in the snow one year...Bbbbrrrrr was that ever a
freezing night...all for a comet.
73 Pete VE3WBZ
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