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My name is Joe Weir and I have lived in Jacksonville, Florida for 50 years. I
am currently (still) employed as a Mailhandler at the Jacksonville Bulk Mail
Center (24 years). I have been licensed since 1983, presently hold a General
class ticket and a CSCE for 20 WPM. I usually hang out on 28.390 USB with the
Wacky Wing Dingers, 146.700 FM with NOFARS, or even 27.185 AM when I want to go
QRP with the truckers on the Interstate. 7.110 is used here for CW (G5RV @ 35
feet) in the old Novice tradition (I like to use a J-38 that a friend found in
his attic with some of his grandfather's stuff) and the Cushcraft AR-10
vertical @ 50 feet has worked back-scatter from the equator, ground wave down
the river to Ocala, and as far west as Lake City... Nowadays, I just run the
130-feet of 10-gauge, 9-strand, UV-resistant, insulated wire with some
"Wirebook III", 450-ohm ladder-line up in the pine trees. They call
it the G5RV. I call it a "fog-periodic" (: )}
Some momentous occassions as KB4FOS:
Me and "Bicycle Dave", N3ICN, working 20 meter Field Day at 4 AM. He
worked SSB and I worked code. We did the duty while the team slept. That's how
you score on Field Day..
Capturing Shoemaker-Levi "G" impact on AES facsimile software;
forgetting to save the file...
Leaving the VOX on at an inopportune moment... (Father's Day, 1998)
Calling CQ SKN (Straight Key Night) with the "glove-key"...reliable
communications through the thumb and forefinger at about 7 WPM...
Harry's (KS4ID) antenna party of 1995 and Field Day, 1995: That Kenwood TS-440s
was SO HOT, it rattled Harry's hot water heater solenoid down in the garage
hard enough that you could read it clearly..
The Late Night Crunch Bunch and toe-nail chewin' topics of discussion...
The 2001 Wacky Wing Ding Society picnic and Bono's babyback ribs.
Temporarily forgetting my Part 97.113(a)(4) and regretting the
"splatter" on 2 meter FM...
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