Ham Radio

Captfirefox · 17 Sep 2024, 04:08 PM

My Father was a Ham Radio opperator, his hobby was sending and recieving messages via morse code to people on the other side of the World just to say Hello and he was content with that. Sometimes contacts would send him a postcard to confirm the contact.
My how things have changed, I am old myself now and have trouble keeping up with all the changes.

Fenman · 17 Sep 2024, 11:08 PM

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n5bb · 18 Sep 2024, 07:49 AM

I have been an Amateur Radio operator for 55 years. My most favorite mode is CW (Morse Code).

Bill

webecedarian · 18 Sep 2024, 10:59 AM

Funny you should mention it.

I have just been thinking about ham radios, apropos of Ukrainians saying they have no access to news given that so much of their internet infrastructure has been destroyed.

Captfirefox · 18 Sep 2024, 06:38 PM

Ham Radio was his all consuming hobby, us three boys never saw him or heard much from him. He would finish work have his dinner and go straight to his shed in the garden and we would not see him again till bedtime. Same at the weekends all his time spent in the Radio Shack. He learned morse in the RAF flying Lancasters as Radio Opperator.

Captfirefox · 19 Sep 2024, 06:25 AM

HELLO Fenman I finnally managed to translate your message and lacking my fathers skills at communication that is maybe as far as I shall get in the world of publishing.

Bamb0 · 19 Sep 2024, 08:54 AM

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n5bb · 19 Sep 2024, 10:03 AM

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?He learned morse in the RAF flying Lancasters as Radio Opperator.

My dad was not a Ham Radio operator, but he had to learn basic Morse Code because he was a US Army Air Corps B-17 pilot during WW2 after D-Day. He was stationed at Knettishall.

Bill

Captfirefox · 20 Sep 2024, 06:40 AM

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Cannot say much about Knetishall but footloose I wandered in parts of East Anglia where Knetishall is and there are Air Bases abandoned after the War with posters on the walls and Mess tables left in open empty hangers just as they were in 1945.

saevas · 23 Sep 2024, 12:32 PM

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Cannot say much about Knetishall but footloose I wandered in parts of East Anglia where Knetishall is and there are Air Bases abandoned after the War with posters on the walls and Mess tables left in open empty hangers just as they were in 1945.

I really don't dare look at too many war posters in East Anglia. It's haunting.

Bamb0 · 26 Sep 2024, 12:10 PM

Isnt it interesting how most people can SEND much faster than receiving!!

Ya dont have to think about it when your sending..... I can probably zip along at 10-15 wpm but receiving I can only handle 5 or less!!!!!

Captfirefox · 28 Sep 2024, 07:28 AM

James 1:25
But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.

Fenman · 28 Sep 2024, 02:59 PM

I'm sure you mean well Captfirefox but please be aware that the Forum Rules ask, among other things, for:

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No discussion of religions or religious philosophies...

Avion · 28 Sep 2024, 03:24 PM

The posting of morse code is the perfect cover for the adding of spam links, post #10 is a perfect example.

18 Sep 2024, 06:38 PM	#5
Captfirefox Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2024 Posts: 0	Hobby Ham Radio was his all consuming hobby, us three boys never saw him or heard much from him. He would finish work have his dinner and go straight to his shed in the garden and we would not see him again till bedtime. Same at the weekends all his time spent in the Radio Shack. He learned morse in the RAF flying Lancasters as Radio Opperator.

19 Sep 2024, 06:25 AM	#6
Captfirefox Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2024 Posts: 0	Hello HELLO Fenman I finnally managed to translate your message and lacking my fathers skills at communication that is maybe as far as I shall get in the world of publishing.

20 Sep 2024, 06:40 AM	#9
Captfirefox Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2024 Posts: 0	Knettishall -. --- / .-- --- -. -.. . .-. / .... . / -.. .. -.. / -. --- - / ... .--. . .- -.- / - --- / ..- ... / -- ..- -.-. .... .-.-.- / .-- . / .-- --- ..- .-.. -.. / .... .- ...- . / - --- / .... .- ...- . / -.- -. --- .-- -. / -- --- .-. ... . .-.-.- Cannot say much about Knetishall but footloose I wandered in parts of East Anglia where Knetishall is and there are Air Bases abandoned after the War with posters on the walls and Mess tables left in open empty hangers just as they were in 1945. Last edited by Captfirefox : 22 Sep 2024 at 06:16 AM.

28 Sep 2024, 07:28 AM	#12
Captfirefox Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2024 Posts: 0	Law James 1:25 But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.

17 Sep 2024, 04:08 PM	#1
Captfirefox Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2024 Posts: 0	Ham Radio My Father was a Ham Radio opperator, his hobby was sending and recieving messages via morse code to people on the other side of the World just to say Hello and he was content with that. Sometimes contacts would send him a postcard to confirm the contact. My how things have changed, I am old myself now and have trouble keeping up with all the changes.

17 Sep 2024, 11:08 PM	#2
Fenman Cornerstone of the Community Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: UK (East Anglia) Posts: 756	.... . .-.. .-.. ---

18 Sep 2024, 07:49 AM	#3
n5bb Intergalactic Postmaster Join Date: May 2004 Location: Irving, Texas Posts: 8,965	I have been an Amateur Radio operator for 55 years. My most favorite mode is CW (Morse Code). Bill

18 Sep 2024, 10:59 AM	#4
webecedarian Cornerstone of the Community Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: NYC Posts: 505	Funny you should mention it. I have just been thinking about ham radios, apropos of Ukrainians saying they have no access to news given that so much of their internet infrastructure has been destroyed.

26 Sep 2024, 12:10 PM	#11
Bamb0 Master of the @ Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: USA Posts: 1,977	Isnt it interesting how most people can SEND much faster than receiving!! Ya dont have to think about it when your sending..... I can probably zip along at 10-15 wpm but receiving I can only handle 5 or less!!!!!

28 Sep 2024, 03:24 PM	#14
Avion Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2022 Posts: 134	The posting of morse code is the perfect cover for the adding of spam links, post #10 is a perfect example.