• CQ CQ CQ

    From Charles P. Adkins@1:229/200 to David Westphalen on Mon Jan 13 22:32:32 2020
    Re: CQ CQ CQ
    By: David Westphalen to Daryl Stout on Wed Oct 03 2018 16:41:18

    Hey my friend, just testing my connection to FidoNet after my hub
    went down due to Florance. Got me 59?
    Yep, Works fine.

    73 de chuck K8CPA
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  • From Harleymoon@1:3634/27 to All on Wed Sep 30 10:49:30 2020
    CQ CQ CQ de N4HDM

    Hope everyone is doing good. Just thought i'd hop in here and announce myself.

    73, N4HDM
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  • From Gate Keeper@1:3634/27 to Harleymoon on Wed Sep 30 10:52:40 2020
    Re: CQ CQ CQ
    By: Harleymoon to All on Wed Sep 30 2020 10:49 am

    CQ CQ CQ de N4HDM

    Hope everyone is doing good. Just thought i'd hop in here and announce myself.

    73, N4HDM

    N4HDM de N4DLT,

    Glad you could make it in here. Welcome to the party! Who else do we have lurking around here?

    73 de N4DLT
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  • From Daryl Stout@1:19/33 to John Guillory on Thu Oct 8 23:46:00 2020
    John,

    doing fine in Mississippi! 73's de KF5QEO!

    Hopefully, Delta won't do too much damage in your area.

    Daryl

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  • From Mike Miller@1:154/30.1 to Harleymoon on Fri Oct 9 11:51:56 2020
    Hello, Harleymoon.
    On 9/30/20 10:49 AM you wrote:

    CQ CQ CQ de N4HDM Hope everyone is doing good. Just thought i'd hop
    in here and announce myself. 73, N4HDM
    73 from KD9QHQ!

    Just got my callsign 4 weeks ago :)


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  • From KK4ZAH@1:3634/27 to All on Mon Feb 27 09:57:32 2023
    Cq CQ CQ who's out here?
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  • From Daryl Stout@1:2320/33 to KK4ZAH on Tue Feb 28 00:55:00 2023
    Cq CQ CQ who's out here?

    WX4QZ in Little Rock, Arkansas.

    Daryl, WX4QZ

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  • From Ron Kinney@1:104/115 to KK4ZAH on Tue Mar 7 11:05:30 2023
    Re: CQ CQ CQ
    By: KK4ZAH to All on Mon Feb 27 2023 09:57 am

    Cq CQ CQ who's out here?

    KC0ZPS here in Colorado. :)

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  • From KHRONOS@1:135/392 to RON KINNEY on Thu Mar 9 07:47:20 2023
    Hi,
    KF4YEY here in Florida.
    I don't know if the fidonet system is really used much anymore, but
    we'll see if this message makes it to you.

    Tom
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  • From Don Vally@1:123/160 to RON KINNEY on Thu Mar 9 23:35:00 2023
    Quoting Ron Kinney to Kk4zah <=-

    Re: CQ CQ CQ
    By: KK4ZAH to All on Mon Feb 27 2023 09:57 am

    Cq CQ CQ who's out here?

    WQYG967 (FRS) in Erie, PA

    I was a morse intercept operator in the Army...

    CQ IMI K

    Cougar

    ... Sorry... My mind has a few bad sectors.

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  • From Daryl Stout@1:2320/33 to KHRONOS on Sat Mar 11 03:22:00 2023
    Tom,

    KF4YEY here in Florida.
    I don't know if the fidonet system is really used much anymore, but
    we'll see if this message makes it to you.

    Florida is my old stomping grounds, but I've lived in central Arkansas
    for 45 years, after my late father's job transferred the family to Little
    Rock from Miami.

    However, I didn't get licensed until mid-1991, but have been in the
    hobby ever since.

    Daryl, WX4QZ

    ... H.A.M. Radio Operator: H)ave A)nother M)eal.
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  • From Don Vally@1:123/160 to DENNIS SCOTT on Sun Mar 12 14:27:00 2023
    Quoting Dennis Scott to Don Vally <=-

    Re: CQ CQ CQ
    By: Don Vally to RON KINNEY on Thu Mar 09 2023 11:35 pm

    I was a morse intercept operator in the Army...

    CQ IMI K

    Cougar

    Hello Don,

    May I ask, what was "a morse intercept operator"?

    Hi Dennis - sure! In the US Army my MOS was 05H which the Army
    described as "Performs detection, acquisition and exploitation of
    foreign communications employing International Morse Code and simple
    printer systems in a tactical or strategic environment." Whew! that
    was long winded.

    Basically I was trained to intercept morse code being sent by
    foreign governments. I sat in a radio shack and searched the bands
    for specific morse traffic. I was trained to intercept chinese cut
    characters, but ended up copying east bloc traffic.

    These messages were always encoded, so unless I copied a cleartext
    code word, the job entailed listening to morse in front of a
    teletype printer and hitting the keys as I heard the characters.
    Always in groups of 5 characters with 5 groups then a spacing and 5
    more groups of 5 characters. Of course I would always get the tail
    end IMI SK.

    I just copied the morse, someone else worked to unencrypt the
    messages. Doesn't sound very exiting right? Training for this was
    INTENSE. Took longer than 6 months depending on the trainee, and
    there were a lot of drop outs.

    When I got out of the service, I tried to find a job sending or
    receiving IMC, but the only place that really used it was the
    maritime service. That didn't pan out.

    Sorry for the long winded reply...

    Cougar
    aka Don


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  • From Dennis Scott@1:275/89 to Don Vally on Mon Mar 13 15:54:20 2023
    Re: CQ CQ CQ
    By: Don Vally to DENNIS SCOTT on Sun Mar 12 2023 02:27 pm


    Sorry for the long winded reply...

    Cougar
    aka Don

    Don, appreciate the reply. It was very interesting. Your job in the military was very much harder than mine, I'm sure. I fixed the radio's that you were probably using, or similiar.

    Cheers,
    Dennis, KD4LLC
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  • From Daryl Stout@1:2320/33 to KHRONOS on Tue Mar 14 05:05:00 2023
    I got licensed in 1998, but have only been active on hf since field day
    of 2018 or so.

    The last time I operated HF was on the Arkansas and Missouri Railroad Memorial Day Troop Train in late May, 2009. We were in a very cramped Conductor's Cabin of a restored 1927 Harlan and Hollingsworth passenger
    car, operating an Icom IC-718 (the get your feet wet in HF, and no frills
    HF rig), with a 20 meter hamstick antenna attached to the rear of the
    car. How I pulled some of those stations out of the weeds on 20 meters,
    I'll never know.

    One ham (now a silent key) couldn't get any contacts, and so his wife
    (also licensed, and still alive as far as I know), got on there, and we
    were hauling in Pennsylvania like there was no tomorrow!! As soon as she
    got off, the band went dead (hi hi). You can go to my bio on QRZ (look
    for WX4QZ), and click on the first hyperlink. From there, you'll go to a
    page with things like:

    1) Excel Spreadsheets of selected D-Star, Echolink, and D-Rats Nets, in Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific Time.

    2) PDF files related to ham radio.

    One of those is my ham radio bio, and in it, is a link on YouTube where
    I was working that Special Event Station, 20 meter HF Railroad Mobile. I
    now do a Trains And Railroads Net every Friday at 8pm US Eastern Time, on
    the QuadNet Array. My eQSL card has a picture of a SOO Line Steam Locomotive
    at Random Lake, Wisconsin, courtesy of Mike Yuhas, AB9ON (he has a large
    amount of train photos at mikeyuhas.org). The alternate phonetics stand
    for "Whistled X-ings (crossings) for Quiet Zones". Some railroads use the letter W for a whistle post to warn the engineer of a highway railroad
    crossing ahead...and some use X for "crossing". The letters QZ stand for
    "quiet zone". The train doesn't sound the locomotive horn, except in 4 instances:

    A) Meeting a train on another track.

    B) Maintenance Of Way (MOW) crews working in the area (usually a "slow
    order" is in place).

    C) Someone is trying to beat the train across at the railroad crossing.

    D) Someone is trespassing on the railroad right of way.

    Mainly I operate cw and voice every once in a while. I live in a HOA
    area so I just have a simple dipole I put up for weekend operating most
    of the time.

    I used to live in HUD subsidized housing for the disabled, but moved
    back to what was my parent's home when I put my Mom into a nursing home
    in mid-2018...congestive heart failure took her life in early August, 2019.

    Her late brother (who has been a silent key for 30 years) was the only
    other ham radio operator in the family, and the youngest engineer hired
    on by the Penn Central Railroad.

    Daryl, WX4QZ

    ... I just bought a cured ham. I wonder what it had??
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  • From Don Vally@1:123/160 to DENNIS SCOTT on Thu Mar 16 08:07:00 2023
    Quoting Dennis Scott to Don Vally <=-

    Don, appreciate the reply. It was very interesting. Your job in the military was very much harder than mine, I'm sure. I fixed the radio's that you were probably using, or similiar.

    It's kind of strange when you look at it, I think you're job was
    probably harder than mine. As an O5H, they crammed all that info
    into my head in about 6-9 months and I can still sit at the keyboard
    and copy code, it's muscle memory. Hear the code, hit the keys.

    Your job sounds harder to me, you actually had to do some problem
    solving! Just a quick aside, what was your MOS?

    Nice to chat with you Dennis, best of luck to you in whatever you
    do!

    Don


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  • From k9zw@1:154/154 to KK4ZAH on Sat Mar 18 18:34:58 2023
    On 27 Feb 2023, KK4ZAH said the following...

    Cq CQ CQ who's out here?

    K9ZW at SPOT BBS also k9zw.wordpress.com

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  • From Gate Keeper@1:3634/27 to KK4ZAH on Fri Apr 7 18:16:16 2023
    Re: CQ CQ CQ
    By: KK4ZAH to All on Mon Feb 27 2023 09:57 am

    Cq CQ CQ who's out here?

    Got you 5 and 9 here in North Carolina de N4DLT
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  • From Gate Keeper@1:3634/27 to Daryl Stout on Fri Apr 7 18:17:50 2023
    Re: Re: CQ CQ CQ
    By: Daryl Stout to KK4ZAH on Tue Feb 28 2023 12:55 am

    Long time no see on the BBS de N4DLT
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  • From Daryl Stout@1:2320/33 to Gate Keeper on Sat Apr 8 07:54:00 2023
    Long time no see on the BBS de N4DLT

    I barely have time for my own BBS. I was diagnosed with congestive
    heart failure just over a year ago, and after that 3rd Covid-19
    booster last November, I've had very little energy. I'm seriously
    considering skipping any other boosters (although I've had the two
    initial shots, and three boosters). However, I haven't undergone the
    Redneck Covid-19 test.

    This is where you take your favorite bottle of wine (you might want
    it chilled). Pour some into a glass, then bring it up to your nose,
    and take a sniff. If you can smell the flavor, take a sip. If you can
    taste it, you're negative for Covid-19 -- repeat the test as many times
    as necessary (hi hi).

    Combine that with degenerative disk disease in my back and spine
    (which I've had for the last 6 years), making it difficult to sit at
    the computer for either BBS or website work, or for running my ham
    radio traffic nets (except for Wednesday and Thursday, I run at least
    1 net every other day in the week). It got so bad that I had to cut
    the pre-net checkin time to only 30 minutes instead of an hour.

    If I take Tylenol caplets (the strongest pain medication I have) for
    the pain, I get very groggy, and can pass out during the net...so,
    basically I have to suffer. Getting old is not for sissies, and if
    you call me a sissy, I'll hit you with my purse (hi hi).

    Two of the nets that I run for the QCWA (Quarter Century Wireless Association)...their Sunflower Net on Saturday morning, and their
    Digital Net on Sunday afternoon, offer "an extended checkin window"
    via email and Facebook...from 30 minutes before the net starts, to
    25 hours after that point. This way, I'm not rushed to prepare the
    log, and it lets the stragglers get on the log, but if they checkin
    after the net officially closed, I note such on the log. I know that
    many nets do NOT offer things like pre-net or post-net checkins...if
    you are not there when the net is in operation, you don't get logged;
    whether you like it or not.

    There are too many nets, and too little time. I maintain an Excel
    Spreadsheet of selected D-Star, D-Rats, and Echolink Nets, plus PDF
    files related to amateur radio, at http://www.wx4qz.net/elk.htm

    There are over 200 nets in a month...basically, too many nets, and
    too little time. In one time slot, there are 6 nets meeting at the
    same time!! But, I've noted many hams that are what I call "Hi, Bye,
    and QSY"...it's "Net Control, please checkin [callsign], [name],
    [location], short time, no traffic"...and not a minute later, they
    are doing the exact same thing on another net. A fellow net control
    operator wondered "do they have a life outside of ham radio??". There
    is no prize, bonus, award, reward, certificate, etc., for seeing how
    many nets you can make in a day...never mind how many BBS's you can
    logon to in a day. To me, health takes priority over hobbies.

    In short, I barely have the effort some days to update the ham
    radio and weather data on the BBS, let alone do QWK Mail, or play
    the doors.

    Daryl, WX4QZ

    ... I CQ. Therefore, I HAM. -- DE WX4QZ
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  • From Alan Beck@1:229/426.36 to Gate Keeper on Tue Apr 18 14:45:44 2023
    //Hello Gate,//

    on *07.04.23* at *22:16:17* You wrote in area *AMATEUR_RADIO*
    to *KK4ZAH* about *"CQ CQ CQ"*.

    Re: CQ CQ CQ
    By: KK4ZAH to All on Mon Feb 27 2023 09:57 am

    Cq CQ CQ who's out here?

    It's like Dr.Johnny Fever doing the night shift.

    Got any interest in packet radio?

    I can't figure out why people don't use it. I have a terminal up on

    cwnet.org

    There is so much amateur radio stuff on there, almost 1000 messages so far since I rebuilt it.


    73 Alan
    VY2XU


    Got you 5 and 9 here in North Carolina de N4DLT
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  • From Tom Moore@1:124/5016 to All on Fri Apr 28 06:25:02 2023
    Re: Re: CQ CQ CQ
    By: Joe Phigan to Alan Beck on Fri Apr 28 2023 00:13:13

    Got any interest in packet radio?
    I can't figure out why people don't use it. I have a terminal up on cwnet.org

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  • From Alan Beck@1:229/426.36 to Joe Phigan on Tue May 2 10:55:08 2023
    lHey Joe,

    Use netmail to send me your call and passw ord.

    I will confirm your call on QRZ.com

    Send me some info on yourself.

    I will include you in my access list.

    That's all. The main thing is to confirm you are a ham operator.

    Study the help menus by typing ?

    You will be connected to a node.

    One option is to go to a node.

    Check out the main page at cwnet.org and you will see the terminal. no www, just cwnet.org

    Very basic. 80's packet style.

    Would be nice to have an active user.

    73,
    Alan




    //Hello Joe,//

    on *28.04.23* at *6:13:13* You wrote in area *AMATEUR_RADIO*
    to *Alan Beck* about *"Re: CQ CQ CQ"*.

    Got any interest in packet radio?
    I can't figure out why people don't use it. I have a terminal up on
    cwnet.org

    How does one sign up for access to that?

    Asking for a friend.

    ... Shortcut: longest distance between two points

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  • From Alan Beck@1:229/426.36 to Tom Moore on Tue May 2 11:00:32 2023
    //Hello Tom,//


    Send me a message with your call for me to check out on QRZ.com

    I need a password so send me a simple password you can remember.

    Read reply I sent earlier. It is very simple and we can go from there.

    Go look at cwnet.org, no www or http.

    That will be your entry point for the terminal.

    Alan

    Sysop
    cwnet.org


    on *28.04.23* at *11:25:03* You wrote in area *AMATEUR_RADIO*
    to *All* about *"Re: CQ CQ CQ"*.

    Re: Re: CQ CQ CQ
    By: Joe Phigan to Alan Beck on Fri Apr 28 2023 00:13:13

    Got any interest in packet radio?
    I can't figure out why people don't use it. I have a terminal up on
    cwnet.org

    I would also be interested in figuring out how to access this system as well.
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  • From Fernando Miculan@4:902/19 to KK4ZAH on Sun Aug 13 20:10:50 2023
    Hola KK4ZAH!

    El lunes 27 de febrero de 2023, KK4ZAH le escribi˘ a All:

    Cq CQ CQ who's out here?

    LW8DFM, in La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. QSL?

    Saludos!
    .:Fercho:.
    LW8DFM :: Instagram: fcmsistemas :: Facebook: /fcmsistemas
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  • From Alan Beck@1:229/426.36 to Fernando Miculan on Tue Aug 15 08:52:16 2023
    Alan, VY2XU on PEI

    Canada




    //Hello Fernando,//

    on *13.08.23* at *23:10:50* You wrote in area *AMATEUR_RADIO*
    to *KK4ZAH* about *"CQ CQ CQ"*.

    Hola KK4ZAH!

    El lunes 27 de febrero de 2023, KK4ZAH le escribi˘ a All:

    Cq CQ CQ who's out here?

    LW8DFM, in La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. QSL?

    Saludos!
    .:Fercho:.
    LW8DFM :: Instagram: fcmsistemas :: Facebook: /fcmsistemas
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    Alan Beck
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