Ed Vance wrote to Roy Witt:

 EV>> Now I remember what device put the signal at a 20 meter frequency,
 EV>> It is my Commodore 64.  IIRC 14.31818 Mc/s is some standard
 EV>> frequency for Video (I think).

 RW>> Which means while you're on the air near that frequency, the
 RW>> computer is offline... 8^)

 EV>>> Oh Yes, Computers have crystal oscillators too! IIRC the Commodore
 EV>>> 64 oscillators frequency is 1 Mc/s.

 RW>>> Oh yes...

 EV> Roy,
 EV> I was wrong.
 EV> I Think it IS the Commodore 64 that had the 14 Mc/s crystal in it.

I've seen 4mc/s crystals on old IBM compatible MBs...

 EV>> I'm thinking the 14.31818 Mc/s is the Crystal Freq. but I think
 EV>> the C=64 clock rate is 1 Mc/s.
 EV>> (I've heard some 6502/6510's ran at 2 Mc/s)

 RW>> My Pentium runs at 4MHz...

 EV> Can it add 2 + 2 correctly?

Yes...it can even mulitiply.

 EV> The Pentium 60 couldn't IIRC.

 EV> I never heard of any Pentium slower than 60, was that 4 a typo?

Probably. It's a Pentium 4, whatever that works out to be. 4GHz?

 EV>>> Yes I AM A BIG LID.   . . . .    . .       _ . _

Me too, but I don't go around telling everybody about it. 8^)

 EV> When I was in High School I was called a BIG LID a year before
 EV> I earned my Novice License by the students who were Hams.

When I was in junior high school, I was best friends with a LID who turned
me on to radio. He lived over a teen hangout (soda fountain) and had a
long wire antenna that stretched over the flat roofs of two buildings.
Together, we pioneered the new band the FCC made for CB on 11 meters in
1958-59...along came a sunspot cycle that created a lot of skip and CB was
never the same after that. Finally got a Novice ticket in 1970-71...

 EV> It's a Hard Tradition to uphold, but I try.
 EV> I've never denied being a LID as I have other Hams say.

8^)

 EV> _ _ . . .   . . . _ _


73s...

         R\%/itt, K5RXT


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