it is probably already obvious, but in case it is not -- W3HF is the man when it comes to knowing the ins and outs of vanity processing    he also is very helpful.

That is great news ... provided they do not become neighbors of mine 

My 10, 12 and 15m QSO's are all showing up today so it was just me being impatient. Online log checks and LoTW have spoiled me 

I got them (at least I thought I did) on 10, 12, and 15 yesterday, but the 10m one was before their last update and I am not showing up.

As a general rule, is the 'last QSO' time of online logs unreliable?  My 12m QSO was at 21:10z but the log site says last QSO in the log is 22:23z ...
http://5w0m.hkmann.de/?Logsearch

My point was simply that the harder it is to attain a given thing, and the more work required to get it -- the more likely those who do get it will appreciate and take care of it.  75 meters is full of people who are not taking care of amateur radio. It is degenerate.

As for drug addict surgeons -- rather than deal in innuendo how about a link showing the average rate of drug addiction among the general population vs. that of surgeons. Also for those who butcher people?  I bet a significant amount of medical quackery is by people pretending to have license...   

I know that if I work hard for something I appreciate it more and take better care of it.  Learning Morse code was a real barrier for me that would have stopped me cold had I not really taken getting a license seriously.   

75 meters, like television, is nothing like what it was in 1977 when I passed my Advanced. But I still think 75 meters would be in much better shape today if HF phone privileges were still tied to some kind of morse code fluency testing.   

I like the quote by Vin Scully about his arm: "Clemente could field the ball in New York and throw out a guy in Pennsylvania."

He is a player that made an impression on me as a kid who loved baseball, even though the Cubs were my team.  The way he ran was electric.  I hear guys would hit balls that normally would be a double and do a dead stop at first base because of Clemente's reputation for throwing behind the runner and picking them off for rounding 1st    He was truly a phenom. 

"The big thing about (Roberto) Clemente is that he can hit any pitch. I don't mean only strikes. He can hit a ball off his ankles or off his ear." -Hall of Fame pitcher Juan Marichal

Only someone who loved playing baseball as much as he would have said:
"Why does everyone talk about the past? All that counts is tomorrow's game." -- Roberto Clemente

sure, but if your normal table was taken, would you look for the nearest available open table -- or would you inform the guys already sitting there that it is your table and they need to move out of it?   The degree of diplomacy with which you approach the second option will be directly proportional to how smoothly things proceed.

I grew up a Cubs fan (still am) and remember loving Roberto Clemente as a kid.  He played the game so ecstaticly (or so i remember...) and what a defender he was with that CANNON for an arm. I also loved the way he ran!  I remember reading him saying how much pride he had every time he put on a professional baseball uniform -- wish some of the high paid jerks playing today understood what he meant 

I also remember the Willie Stargell at bat antics -- used to mimic those as a kid... One thing the Cubs had the best of back then was radio announcers: Vince Lloyd and Lou Boudreau!
Williams, Banks, Santo & Ferguson Jenkins were not too bad either! 

My Cubs look to finish behind the Pirates in the NL Central this year as they go through more re-building...

my lone T2T QSO was also LoTW confirmed yesterday!

Congrats!   Enjoy those new privileges!

^the new best line in the thread^

There is a Chuck Schwark listed as the Web Page administrator for the Antique Wireless Association

http://www.antiquewireless.org/otb/contact.htm


that might account for an old Hallicrafters glowing

there is also a webpage http://www.dealamerica.com/balinks.htm that has a link to: "CHUCK SCHWARK'S PAGE"
but the link-- http://members.aol.com/caschwark/index.htm -- is dead 

not sure if that is helpful or not... if it sounds like your uncle, you might contact that organization or perhaps W1GIG listed above...

to me the removal of 13 and 20wpm code testing (let alone 5wpm) simply lowered the bar in terms of the time required to get a license and phone privileges.  I have never heard rude comments on CW.  But the main point I am making is that if you lower the bar required to hurdle over in order to become a surgeon, you will end up with more surgeons and more poor ones.

I am not suggesting being code tested or fluent necessarily makes one a better ham. There are many great hams who don't do CW. 

^that^ is the a very resonant frame you have provided through which to view this topic.  thanks

I don't see how you can reasonably infer that it is a function of old age.   We have not had true code-testing for a long time and even the 5wpm test has been absent for several years.  And just because someone hanging out on 75 meters may be very old, does not reveal whether they have been a ham for 3 years or 30 years.   And even if they were all younger, won't all the newer hams you mention that are repopulating the band likely to age as time passes?