On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 21:16:29 -0400, Wayne B
wrote:

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.

all you have to do is look at this newsgroup to see why that makes
sense!