06-08-14 13:11 Roy Witt wrote to Ed Vance about LPDA antenna

 RW> {at}MSGID: 
 RW> Greetings Ed!
Howdy! Roy,
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 RW> In 1977 I opted for the ARRL 'antenna handbook' rather than pay
 RW> for a bunch of things not required at the time.

I bought the Editors and Engineers "Radio Handbook" two times.
16th Edition and 20 Edition.

Someone else had a copy and showed it to me and I thought I'd like
to have one also. Then I got the second one some years later.

In Oakland, California I visited a Ham I met on the air and he had
another hard cover Radio Book that I looked through and liked, but I
never remembered its Title where I could get one for myself.

 EV> I'd guess the Company A.R.R.L chose to Print (and Bind) the
 EV> 1960 Edition issue of the Handbook had used a 'less expensive' method
 EV> of putting the sections of that Edition together.

 RW> That may be so. Have you looked in those books for the printers
 RW> names? You might also note that there is a difference in the
 RW> books; one being a paper binding and the other being a cloth
 RW> binding. i.e my 1977 ARRL hand book is paper bound and the
 RW> suggested retail inside the cover says that it was sold at
 RW> $7.50, whiie the cloth bound edition cost $12.50...I would
 RW> expect that the cloth bound books would last a lot longer.

Rumford Press printed the 1957 and 1960 A.R.R.L RAHB I have.
The RAHB's I've got since 1964 don't show who published it for them.

I always bought the soft cover handbooks, remember I "AM A CHEAP LID".

 EV> The later Handbooks I have bought since 1964 all have been bound much
 EV> better than that 1960 copy I got when I was in Norfolk, Virginia at
 EV> Navy Radiomans School and was wanting to learn enough so I could get
 EV> Commercial RadioTelephone and RadioTelegraph Licenses from the F.C.C.
 EV> office in downtown Norfolk.

 RW> I think that (license) is the only reason I'd join the Navy
 RW> back then. I've wanted to get one of those for years, but never
 RW> had the time to take a course that would get me there.

The Navy didn't have anything to do with my wanting to have those
licenses, I did it because there was a F.C.C. Office in Norfolk, VA
and wondered if I knew enuf to get one of those thar things for myself.
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 EV> I never used the CW License, but I once was a Radio Dispatcher for
 EV> the local government 'City Radio' station and showed my Third Class
 EV> RadioTelephone License to the boss when he asked me to fill out a
 EV> Form to get a Restricted RadioTelephone Permit, to show him I didn't
 EV> need a 'Permit' because the 'License' I already owned gave me all the
 EV> permission needed to be a Radio Dispatcher for the City.

 RW> You were right to do so. When/if the FCC were to inspect your
 RW> station, they wern't going to be looking for a city permit...

The City doesn't issue Restricted RadioTelephone Permits, the FCC does.

As far as them inspecting the Station, the City had a contract with a
2-Way Radio service company for Maintenance and Service of the Base and
Mobile units.
If there were any problems with the station, we would call the Company
who had the maintenance contract any time Day or Night, and they would
send a Licensed Technician to fix things.
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 EV> I did ask him a few months later to sign (Endorse) my License so I
 EV> could get the F.C.C. to renew it for another Term.

 RW> Did he?
Yep!, He sure did, and I did re-new those licenses when it came time
to re-new them, but I forgot to do so when those licenses were due to
expire.

... Daddy, why doesn't this magnet pick up your diskettes?
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