Forum Etiquette

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by lugersrkewl

we need to get postino a dvd player..

Postino has a Hollywood Plus hardware DVD decoder card + a Hauppauge WinTV video card and plays the DVDs on his computer and watches the movie on his Toshiba TV set...

...OR...Captures the TV movie on his computer and converts it to digital and compresses it so it will fit on a DVD disk...

[GySgt1811]

Originally Posted by NoncomRetired

CQ-CQ...anybody out there? (same as Ham radio).

Off topic, I know...sorry, but...

All the "kids" with their tweets think they invented abbreviations, like "lol" etc. Hell that was done already 70 and 80 years ago working the 40 meter band with a key or a bug. As in...

CQ...CQ... = Seek You, Seek You

Gawd, I'm old...

Gunny John (AKA, "Sparks" K9SVD)

PS. Anybody need a QSL for their shack wall?
PPS. CQ-CQ...anybody out there? (same as Ham radio) It IS Ham radio, before VOX. Used to be that a novice could only use code on the 40 meter band until he/she passed their advance test. Then they could drop the "N" from their call sign; i.e., KN9SVD became K9SVD.

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by GySgt1811

Gawd, I'm old...

Gunny John (AKA, "Sparks" K9SVD)

My dad was W2JNR...Used to have a stack of his old ham postcards; somebody threw them out...Or they grew legs...Like his war surplus Hallicrafters radio set...That pulled in everything...