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Wayne B

On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 21:04:24 -0400, wrote:

On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 20:37:39 -0400, wf3h wrote:

On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 17:50:48 -0400, Wayne B
wrote:

On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 17:31:16 -0400, wf3h wrote:

Our boats were moored a few miles east in Stamford, CT
which is a major center of sail boat racing in Western LIS. It was a
good place to spend our working and child raising years offering easy
access to the water, good schools and a relatively easy commute into
New York City.

have to try this sometime...sounds nice

It is nice.

I get to do a little ham radio activity on the boat also. Conditions
are on the upswing. Had a brief chat with a station in Yokohama,
Japan two days ago on 17 meters. He was loud and clear, just like
next door, not bad for 150 watts and a 23 ft vertical whip antenna.
We also try to check into the Maritime Mobile Service Net on 14300 KHz
once a day. They're a great bunch of guys and provide a real service
to cruisers.

i was, for many years, a net controller for the MMSN...actually
coordinated a few high seas rescues. they're a good group pf folks

You boys should get together for a beer summit ;-)

Maybe if we found out everyone didn't have horns we would get along
better here.

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All we have to do is forget about religion and politics... :-)

Ar one time there was sort of a defacto agreement in amateur radio
circles that those two topics were off limits. Of course that was
then, and this is now.