05-02-19 20:31 NANCY BACKUS wrote to ED VANCE about Re: Travel
Howdy! Nancy,

 NB> {at}MSGID: 
 -=> Quoting Ed Vance to Nancy Backus on 05-01-19  09:10 <=-
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 NB> ... As of next week, passwords will be entered in Morse code.

 EV> DIT DAAAAH DIT    ( .-. = R which means "ROGER!" or
"AFFIRMATIVE!") .
 EV> You can tell I held the Key down on the Dash portion of the character
 EV> R to show I am   V E R Y   excited to be able to do that at Sign On.

 NB> Thank you for the translation... my knowledge of Morse Code is very
 NB> rudimentary, as I've never gone for a ham license...  ;)

 EV> I was 16 when the F.C.C. licensed Me as KN4ZIQ.
 EV> The ZIQ part means - Zero Intelligence Quotient ( 0.0 I.Q. ) .

 NB> Was that your choice, or was the the usual assignment for novices...?

The F.C.C. issued licenses in alphabetically order back in the late 1950's.
I knew a Ham who was issued the suffix YXY to his call sign, so I was fairly
sure the call sign I would get would start with a Z, I was hopeing for ZAP
but when it came time for the F.C.C. to get to My paperwork ZIQ was next
in line to be issued to someone in the Fourth Call Area so they gave that
one to Me.

On my Hallicrafter S38E receiver I would listen to local Hams talking and
some of them had made up interesting Phonetics for their call sign letters,
so I tried and tried and tried to figure out some words for mine.

One night as I was laying in bed, about six months after I got the license
ZERO INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT came to my mind and I stuck with that until I
moved to Indiana which is in the Ninth Call Area, so I sent a Form to the
F.C.C. to Modify my license for that area.

I was issued WA9WSB, Washers, Screws and Bolts is what I choose to use
for phonetics even thought some of my friends wanted Me to use:
We Sell Beer, but that one wasn't to my liking.

In the 1970's I applied for another change of call sign and got W9ODR,
which immediately My Ham Friends called Old Dirty Rat and I liked that one
so I use it.

 EV> Stay Tuned, Same Time, Same Frequency.
 EV> (I remember the old phrase was Same Time, Same Channel - but I never
 EV> had a Citizens Band Radio License, so I use the word Frequency instead
 EV> of Channel.)

 NB> And bbsing isn't quite the same either, not being time-dependent for
 NB> connection... ;)  But it's the same echo, anyway.... ;)

I can grab a QWK Packet from Mike Powell's Capital City BBS almost any time
of Day or Night, except for two time slots when the BBS is getting new mail.

Mike has helped Me learn how to get a QWK Packet using FTP instead of TELNET.

I made a BAT File that calls a FTP Script to do the work of checking for Mail
and I'm only Signed On for less than a minute and then Signed Off and start
Reading, Lurking, Giggling, Replying whatever... to what I see in the packet.

 NB> ... ME sane?  I don't think so!!  ;*)

When it comes to being sane I'm NOT with the IN CROWD.

Did You or the Wizard ever use a Commodore 64 or 128 PC?

73 de Ed W9ODR  .          .


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