Subj : Re: XRF PROBLEMS
To   : Ed Vance
From : Allen Prunty
Date : Thu Aug 04 2016 03:36 pm

  Re: Re: XRF PROBLEMS
  By: Ed Vance to Allen Prunty on Sun Jul 31 2016 11:00 pm

 EV> I haven't been on the air for several years but can't remember a Ham YF
 EV> (YF = Wife) with that last name.

She never was just a wife... my stepdads never had any interest in the radio
and Dad exited the scene when I was 6.

 EV> Before I moved to Indiana in 1967 I had been a Member of the Amateur Radio
 EV> Transmitting Society Club (A.R.T.S. Club) and the Kentuckyiana Radio Club
 EV> (K.R.C.) and the only Lady Hams I knew were Mrs. Pat Schafer K4QIO and
 EV> later on Mrs. Terry Rowe.

Well she was very active for a time with React and CB Radio.  But unfotunately
not in this area as we moved frequently during her time in the miliary.

 EV> What is Your Mom's First Name?, I may have heard Her on 2 Meters.

Her First Name was Anna 

Last names of course were Prunty (Dad exited the scene when I was 6) then my
first Stepdad's last name was Lents and we lost him during the first Iraq
war... then the last stepdad was Helmick and we lost him in 2006, heart attack.

With my illnesses, mom does not have time much to enjoy anything.  She still is
on the CB every now and then and uses the handle Dixie Doodle.  

Unfortunately her big antenna was ruined in the storm that was the remnants of
Hurricane Ike when it blew through here.  Since I became disabled I can't put
it back up for her and she's 70... not able to do it herself.

 EV> I was on 2 Meters from November 1976 to around 2010.
 EV> Earlier, when I was a Novice in 1958, Al Hall K4CSH came down on 3720 Kc/s
 EV> and talked to a few of us around Louisville to restart the Kentucky Novice
 EV> Net, and later when I was a General I was on the Kentucky C.W. Net (KYN)
 EV> on 3600 Kc/s.

I will have to talk with her about it during next week's iv treatment.

 EV> I also used a Heathkit Sixer but quit using it when a neighbor said I was
 EV> heard on their T.V. Set.
 EV> I didn't want to mess up the T.V. shows they watched, so I quit using it.

Mom would have went over there and fixed their antenna :-) back in the day she
was able to do things like that and getting on a roof didn't bother her.  We
were the wierd family in the neighborhood when we had roof damage we put a new
roof on our house ourselves.  We did Dave Ramsey before Dave Ramsey did Dave
Ramsey's money program.

 EV> 73 de Ed W9ODR, ex KN4ZIQ, K4ZIQ and WA9WSB . .

I guess mine would be 2XLT :-)

Allen
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