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If ya hurl them over the wall while they're still alive they might come back with the return message..............

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From: "Jardy Dawson JARDY72@... [FT-60]" <FT-60@...>
To: "FT-60@..." <FT-60@...>
Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2014 10:32 PM
Subject: Re: [FT-60] general question

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Jardy Dawson
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From: "'Rick - yahoo' rgsparber.ya@... [FT-60]" <FT-60@...>
To: FT-60@...
Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2014 6:59 AM
Subject: [FT-60] general question

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I have been around hams all of my life. Growing up, two houses down was a ham. My brother-in-law has been a ham since he was in high school so my wife actually picked up a lot of information from him. I studied analog circuit design and RF in college. So I understand some of the technical aspects of being a ham.

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What I do not fully understand is what motivates people to be hams. I know each person probably has a different reason from survivalist to helping out in an emergency to social.

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My immediate motivation is because some of my students are required to get their license in order to operate APRS during weather balloon flights ( ). It was getting embarrassing to tell them that I didn’t have my license.

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So what makes you guys “tick”? What got you interested in being a ham?

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I do hope my question does not offend anyone. That was not my intent.

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Thanks,

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Rick