08-28-14 10:50 Daryl Stout wrote to ED VANCE about Computer Parts/Hamfests

 DS> {at}MSGID: 
 EV>Howdy! Daryl,

 DS>   Morning, Ed...

 EV>I am a Cheap LID of the Seventh Degree! as if You didn't know that.

 DS>   And, I'm sure you worked hard to earn that. 

Evening Daryl,

My School Friend who started my interest in Radio things had a favorite
word for Cheap, it was Scrounge.

His favorite word for me and other of His Friends was Scrounge,
but it was He that taught me how to become one, just like Him.

After He joined the U.S.Navy and wrote to me that if I joined the Navy
NOT To use that word in Bootcamp because it meant a Filthy Dirty Person
who needed cleaning with Lye Soap and a Brush, and someone might beat
me up if I called them a scrounge.

 EV>Yes Sir!, but I really haven't missed any of the stuff I stuffed in
 EV>those three paper sacks (yet).
 EV>Probably won't miss them ever.

 DS>   I'm reminded of the joke where the guys wife says "It's me or
 DS> the radio"...and he quips "I'm going to miss that woman", or
 DS> "CQ DX". 

That reminds me of a article in CQ Magazine saying something about if a
Ham was going to get married he first should buy that expensive Radio
that he is wanting to buy and then put it in the attic of the house so
a lot of dust can accumulate on it and then a few months after the I DO
to tell the wife he is going to go look up in the attic to see if there
is any of his old radio stuff that he might want to start using again
and then he brings it into his Hamshack.
Knowing after the I DO it may be hard to convince the wife that he
would want to buy a new radio.

 EV>Hey!, those Hams who know who I am wouldn't be in that pile-up.

 DS>   Contesting never did appeal to me. Yet, there's a contest
 DS> every weekend. And, computers are more and more part of the ham

A Ham operating at A.R.R.L.'s W1AW Hamshack normally wouldn't be during
a Contest, would it?

 DS> shack. There was an interesting article in the September, 2014
 DS> issue of QST, basically asking those still using Windows XP
 DS> that "Isn't it time to switch to Linux??". From what I
 DS> understand, several ham radio applications do use Linux,
 DS> including the "Raspberry Pi" deals for D-Star. One elderly ham
 DS> radio operator and his wife went to a swapfest, and he was
 DS> going to get one of these Raspberry Pi deals, and his wife
 DS> adamantly said "You are NOT going to get a Raspberry Pi...it'll
 DS> ----- up your diabetes!!". 

My wife one time came up to me while I looking at another table at a
Hamfest Fleamarker and showed me a copy of The Radio Amateurs Handbook
and asked if I was interested in it.
I saw it was newer than the one I had so I went to the other table and
bought it.

QRZ.COM does that for us now doesn't it?

 EV>I suppose You would have to have a .JPG of my License before I could
 EV>use Packet Radio on Your BBS?

 DS>   I trust you...and for those I've either met in person, or
 DS> chatted with online often enough, or especially on nets, I have
 DS> no problem with "auto-approval".

I may try it out and see if the Packet BBS I used in the mid-1990's
still is on the air.

 EV>I haven't been to a local Hamfest in years, I may go to either the
 EV>Louisville Hamfest now held in Bullitt County, or at Bedford, IN this
 EV>year.

 DS>   The most interesting part is where you meet fellow hams in
 DS> person...and this has happened with BBS Sysop and User
 DS> Gatherings that I've attended in the past. You form a mental
 DS> image of them, but when you finally meet them in person, they
 DS> do NOT look at all like you had pictured them!! :P

I got close to imagining what a person I talked to looked like once.

 EV>I will have to do a Search for Whattaburger to see what I am missing.

 DS>   Do the search for "Whattaburger Russellville Arkansas", or
 DS> something to that effect. I know there are other Whattaburger
 DS> restaurants around, but this place doesn't have the same "logo
 DS> sign" that the others do.

I will take a look-see to see what that store looks like. Thanks.

 DS>   And, did you ever notice that at certain times of the day,
 DS> people get the idea that it's time to eat?? 

Some folks are on a regular schedule, I'm a ir-regular eater.
You can tell that I've never been in a Food Fight just by looking at me
'cuz it's against "MY RELIGION" to waste food.

I think of Alan Sherman(sp?) the comedian saying he was told by his Mom
about all the starving people in other countries when he was a kid,
so he decided to eat all that he could to help those poor folks.

I liked his Camp Granada story (Song) much better though.

... VOYAGER: To boldly get lost where no one has gotten lost before.
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