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All, The annual payment of $220 for this group is due on January 18th. Last year, the co-owners split the fee in half and paid it. This year we are asking for donations from one or more group members.

Our system used magneto phones: you turned the crank on the wooden box and, if the operator was home, she would answer from the switchboard in her living room.? In about 1954, a small switching

Mine was an eight party line with two sub party lines of four; 494J and 494W. Telephones had no dials. You picked up the phone and waited for the operator to whom you asked to connect you to the

At my age with one bum hand and eyesight, that's why I try to avoid the small screen and tiny virtual keyboard of a smart phone. I really try to use my smart phone as a phone only. But I do understand

A good friend growing up in the 1950’s father ran an appliance store. To call Rick I would say 377 Ring Twice Please. If we were not done in a minute, we could hear his father deep breathing on the

I’m a ‘young pup’ at 63, and our party line in rural southwest Nebraska was shared with six other farms. That was up until about 1973 when the phone company came in and trenched underground

Yep, we had a party line shared by one person up the road a bit. But, I'm still a youngster, I'm only 68! Bad thing is my body thinks I'm 80, issues everywhere. But I keep waking up every morning so

Oh yes, and remember the "party lines". They were neat in small midwestern towns!! And the "exchange operator" who had to plug in your requested connection(s)? OK, this is deviating a bit much from

I live and die on my cell phone. I don't have limber fingers so I one finger the keys. I'm not smart enough to understand all the abbreviations that others use. But I grew up when phones still had

Jim, you may have gathered, I'm a fossil at 75 years old ("wise"). Once early in my career, I became very good at dedicated machine language programming. So much so that they really put the pressure

/All ya gadda do/ is rewrite? 4nec2 plus NEC in Java (SimSmith is already in Java), and you'll be all set on an Android.? NEC4 Fortran to Java might not be that hard. It's only 25,000 lines of code,

Sometimes, on rare occasion, I actually make/take a phone call on it.

One of my favorite uses was to wirelessly connect your DRM hotspot to the Internet, so you could talk to folks all over the world while driving around. And all you needed was a smartphone to be able

Cell phones do have a lot of use for radio amateurs. I have Locator (shows distance and bearing between two 6-character grid squares), HamGPS, and when I go out on microwave hilltopping expeditions I

Absolutely not. We bought the smart phone for camping and traveling. We do not have cell service here at home - thank heaven. If I ever use it for ham radio, it's time to have my head examined. If it

Not that I know of. But the nanosaver.py command line utility can certainly be set up to do that. You'd write a short program (in PowerShell, or bash, or python) that sends the right command here's an

Wondering if NanoVNA Saver or similar can be optioned to write a log file showing the response to a sweep every half second? Just wanting the time, frequency, and SWR... de Wb8yqj Don

I think it can be reasonably said that we use our wonderful, modern tools, like the NanoVNA and smartphone, to enrich and improve our social networking that started a long time before these other

All: Copper Mountain is a well-respected professional VNA manufacturer and while their webinars are pitched to the pro, I can guarantee there will be some understandable and usable content for the ham