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on the NUMBER PAD on the right end<br />
ofyour keyboard.<br />
Your computer will actually make<br />
the letter "0" with a slash through it,<br />
which is the way it was done on a typewriter<br />
in the early days. Y ou'll recall<br />
that there was no numerical zero on the<br />
old Underwoods, etc. Back then, the<br />
letter "0" also served as a zero as there<br />
was no zero key in the number row at<br />
the top ofthe typewriter keyboard. So<br />
in order to tell the difference, you had<br />
to put a I through it.<br />
Maybe, ifwe can start doing this<br />
throughout the <strong>Amateur</strong> ranks, people<br />
will, once again, be able to teU a 0 from<br />
an 0 and, for those who only operate on<br />
vh:t7uhf, they will come to realize that<br />
there is a 0 call zone out there. What<br />
do you think?<br />
Regards and 73, Dave K0CSD<br />
(look at that 0-ain't that wonderful!)<br />
(Your editor welcomes items from the "good<br />
old days" )<br />
President's Message<br />
ADen Maslowski N2DCA@amsat.org<br />
You never know whom your going to<br />
talk to in amateur radio. Over the last<br />
couple of months or so I have been<br />
reading some electronic books while<br />
traveling to work on the train. Some<br />
people do this in their car on the :freeway!<br />
I know, I saw them on Interstate<br />
51<br />
The same person wrote both ofthese<br />
Maybooks. A noted man in the electronics<br />
field and in amateur radio. He<br />
has also published many articles in QST<br />
and elsewhere on his radio designs.<br />
If you were an avid QRPer you<br />
would know the name, Wes Hayward.<br />
About three or for weeks ago, I was on<br />
the air making some on the air tests<br />
using my homebrew rig running under I<br />
Watt of power. I was sending a series<br />
of V's and my call while monitoring my<br />
signal on my Yeas black box radio.<br />
I was on 40 meters in an area that<br />
was so noisy that I heard nothing but<br />
noise and no signals. No one could<br />
possibly hear me. Well, boy was I<br />
wrong.<br />
Out of the noise came a faint signal<br />
sending QRZ? DE W7Z0I. At first I<br />
didn't think it was directed at me so I<br />
sent some more V's and my call and<br />
continued testing. Again I hear the<br />
signal but this time he was calling me!<br />
So I said what the heck and answered<br />
him.<br />
I sent him a RST of 449 and my<br />
QTH. He came back with my RST of<br />
349. We exchanged the normal information<br />
and then sent our 73's because of<br />
the large amount of noise on the band.<br />
All the time I was talking to him I knew<br />
I recognized the call but couldn't place<br />
it. It was late and I went to bed because<br />
I had to get up early.<br />
The next day brought about the same<br />
boring routine. Walk the dog; breakfast<br />
Mayand the train ride to work. pg.3<br />
Well, on the train I took out my -51<br />
1,387<br />
book and there it was on the cover May<br />
RF Design for the <strong>Radio</strong> <strong>Amateur</strong><br />
by Wes Hayward, W7Z01.<br />
I wish I realized whom I was talking<br />
to the night before. Well, that night I sent<br />
him a quick e-mail and told him the story<br />
above. I also asked him to QSL. I just<br />
couldn't do that on the air because of all<br />
the noise. That will be a QSO to remember<br />
and a QSL card to keep.<br />
The odds are really low that you<br />
would talk anyone you knew on the air<br />
given the large number of HAMs and the<br />
wide area of all the bands. I guess<br />
making that once in a lifetime contact<br />
with someone you read about or someone<br />
famous is just part of the excitement of<br />
<strong>Amateur</strong> radio. So what's my point?<br />
My point is get on the air and have<br />
some fun. You never know where you<br />
will make that rare DX contact or talk to<br />
someone famous.<br />
Good Luck and I'll see you on the air!<br />
73's Allen<br />
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