73's...Paul, K2FX

Thanks for taking the time to leave me some feedback on this website! 
I've received many email comments in the past, but most times after reading and answering, I would just discard them.  Looking back, I wish I had saved them for all to read.  So, from now on, I'll be sure to post all emails on this page. Thanks, and keep them coming in. 
You too could make a guest appearance on the K2FX Website!


 

-----Original Message-----

From: ford1929@frontiernet.net [mailto:ford1929@frontiernet.net]

Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 7:09 PM

To: usafpilot@rochester.rr.com

Subject: Hi Paul (new ham nut here)

Hello Paul,

    Allow me to intrduce myself I'm Tom Webster I Always wanted to be a Ham and this might be my year? Rowan will be working with me to get my ticket. I work

6 days a week this time of year. (I work for the town of Brighton highway dept as a truck driver) but i thought I would send a email letting you know I'm listening to the nets on Sunday.

    Also I'm a Yamaha nut too. your 1100 looks sharp!!!! I own a 07 Venture so let me know if you want to ride together someday? I'll keep a ear out for you -Tom

-----Original Message-----
 

From: Garry [mailto:g.drummond@verizon.net]

Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 3:23 PM

To: usafpilot@rochester.rr.com

Subject: Greetings

Hi Paul,

I ran across you from a web search for info on a Nye Viking MB-V-A antenna tuner. I noticed you were a USAF pilot and a Mason/Shriner etc.

I was a USAF pilot as well and flew with the Virginia Air National Guard until I retired in 1993. You look familiar from you picture on your website. Don't know if we might have crossed paths anywhere along the way or not. I enlisted in the ANG back in 1972 as a Radar Technician working on Doppler Radar systems. Working around A/C, the bug to fly bit hard and I finally got into UPT in 1979 at Reese AFB, TX.

To make a long story short, I flew the F-105, A-7D, and F-16C. After retirement from the ANG, I flew a King Air B200 as a contract pilot for NASA at Wallops Island, VA until 2002 when the contract ended. That pretty much ended professional flying for me as no other professional flying opportunities in the rural area I live in. I own/operate an insurance agency full time.

I am also Junior Warden in Central Lodge #300 AF & AM. A York Right Mason I am also a member of the Eastern Shore Shrine Club. I've been a Mason since 1985 but just now going through the chairs.

Just wondering what your thoughts are on the Nye Viking tuner and anything you may comment on re the above.

Thanks,

Garry Drummond - K4OR

Nelsonia, VA

From: Kn2gsjghm@aol.com [mailto:Kn2gsjghm@aol.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 11:32 AM
To: usafpilot@rochester.rr.com
Subject: THURSDAY

Hello Paul,

    I just finished reading some of your information and found it very interesting.  I

am retired from the Navy back in 1974.  Only made it to E6 (CTR1) but enjoyed the

whole thing for 20 years.  I am now 73 (74 in November) and getting ready to

transfer to OK in not to long a time.

    I was KN2GSJ way back in 1954, just out of high school.  I received my ticket

in January of 1954 and joined the Navy and was taken in in March of 54.  After

Boot Camp at Bainbridge, Md, I was off to the Naval Security Group base in

Imperial Beach, CA and once completing that went to Japan for a two year

tour.  I had about a week left on my ticket and lost it in 1955. HI.

    After 20 years, I went to the PI and stayed there 14 years, came home and

worked at radio station WBAZ-FM out of Southold, NY for another 14 years and

then finally retired from it.

    I still copied CW.  Been copying CW since I was 15/16 and even did it in the

Navy.  So, in 1993, while working at WBAZ I went to NYC to the FCC and took

another Novice Exam and passed and got the call KB2QLK in November. I

made General in November of 1994 and in 1996 I changed my call back to

KN2GSJ. HI.

   We are still on-the-air with an FT-1000D and 100 watts into a dipole up only

20 feet, but are having a good time.  I started out with a Ranger, owned at

the time by W2NXB, SK, and then obtained a KNWD-TS520 from an old

buddy in TX, Tom, K5AX.  Now I operate with the FT.  I have a 136 foot

dipole that I use. Have many awards including DXCC/CW, WAS/CW and

FISTS awards.  I am 1538 with FISTS. HI.

    It has been a hell of a good time on-the-air for me, and nothing to speak

of for the XYL and kids. HI.  We are located on Long Island, 100 miles from

NYC and only 8 miles from the end of the island. HI.  Water one mile North

of me and water one mile South of me.  Very thin way out here on the end

of it all. HI.  Take care my friend.

73

George/KN2GSJ/USN-RET

From: dpollatt@rochester.rr.com
Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:00 PM
To: usafpilot@rochester.rr.com
Subject: Comments on your 12/15/06 Commentary

Paul,

I read over your commentary regarding the changes in amateur licensing. I have 
been interested in ham for quite some time and finally sat down and studied 
last summer. I must admit I thought it odd that the entire question pool was 
available! If only I had that luxury going through engineering school! I 
received my technician in September, followed by my general in November and my 
Extra this past January!!! I have recently joined the newbie

net and have spent most of my time on 2m listening until I feel I understand

the protocol for proper communication. Although my license allows it I don't

feel at all qualified to use the HF provisions! I hope, as you do, that this

is not the beginning of the end. From what I have gathered by listening on 2m, 
there are many highly capable folks willing to share their knowledge and

experience. My intent is to tap into that and someday become proficient 
myself.

I appreciate you taking the time to host the Newbie net. Maybe a future net 
meeting can address those of us wishing to get started in HF. I don't know if 
any of the clubs offer training, but it would be very beneficial to see a

few ham shacks and listen and observe HF communications. Another suggestion is 
proper design and setup of antennas, equipment, shack grounding. I can imagine 
there are many fine points to properly setting up a ham shack. 
Allowing anyone to get a license, especially those not technically competent

can only increase the on-air problems.

I am interested in leering CW. Do you have suggestions for getting started 
there?

Again, thank you hosting the newbie net. I hope to catch you on 2 meters in 
the future.

Dave Pollatta, AB2YE
Webster, NY

From: Don Collinson [dcollin4@twcny.rr.com]
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 4:33 PM
To: usafpilot@rochester.rr.com
Subject: K2FX de K2DC

Hi Paul,

Glad you got the post on eHam.net on the D104 and the FT-101ZD.
Sometimes I tend to try to send an email direct, rather than a post.
Sometimes you never know whether the message gets through, and in some case 
you're wide open to a number of other "opinions". Anyway, glad you got it.
We have a few things in common:

- I was never active USAF but I was in the Civil Air Patrol as a kid, and
AF ROTC for a year the first shot at college. I had a Restricted Radio
Permit in the CAP in 1963, and that was good enough to get me into
the Old Old Timers Club (two-way radio communications 40 years
prior to application for membership). My service time was Army,
1970-72

- Never got my license, but I have piloted a plane. I started lessons and
got 4 or 5 hours in the logbook before it got too expensive in 1973, and
I've taken the yoke a few other times going up with freinds.

- Before going back for my engineering degree, I spent 13 years as a DJ -
check my QRZ.com bio.

- I also got my vanity call at the first Extra Class gateway in 96.

- I've never worked much on airborne radar, but for the last 23 years
I've worked on ground based long range air surviellance radars and weather
radars.

- And we're probably only about 80 miles apart. I'm in Lafayette, NY, up in
the hills about 10 miles south of Syracuse.

Anyway, I hope things work well with the D-104 and the FT-101ZD. By the 
way, the post that suggested bypassing the amplifier in the mic (if there is

one)
may or may not be needed. The post was addressing tube rigs, and the FT-101's 
were hybrids with only tube finals. I ran an amplified D-104 with a Kenwood 
TS-520SE (also a hybrid) for many years with no audio problems. You may need 
to adjust the amp output to avoid overdrive, but it'll probably work okay.

73,

Don, K2DC






From:	owlinvestigations@windstream.net
Sent:	Sunday, January 20, 2008 9:10 PM
To:	usafpilot@rochester.rr.com
Subject:	HAM RADIO

Paul,

I have been looking at that great web-site of yours.  You put in a lot time 
and work making it one of the finest I have ever seen.  Congratulations on the 
tower.  Personally I would not have such an antenna on my property.  But I am 
sure you are enjoying what you do.

I first got my ticket in 1974 after a hitch in the Navy.  I was a Navy 
Radioman and learned CW very well. But due to personal situations, moving to 
another state, raising children and a few more life challenges, I neglected to 
renew my license and it expired.  I renewed my license and got my old call 
sign back and am back on the air now.  And man am I glad I did.  I did test 
for a General ticket and the 5 wpm code when I went to renew.  

I have never owned a microphone.  I have never worked SSB or any other mode 
other than CW on a Ham band.  I have never had any type of antenna that I 
could not build myself with copper wire.  

I agree with all of your statements about Licensed Ham Operators should be 
proficient at morse code.  I hear and read these things about the dropping of 
code being such a mistake just about every time I enter a Ham Radio web-site 
like e-ham or read an article about Ham Radio or talk to other Hams in person.  
Now, to the real reson I am writing this lettrer:  We owe it to ourselves and 
to the future of Ham to really do something about it.  We have to get the code 
back.  From the looks of your web-site I feel like people like you can figure 
a way to do it.  Most of us don't understand how, who or why this happened.  
And believe me, you would see a lot of support if something got going.

OK enough rambling.  Thanks for sharing the great web-site and pictures.  And 
one more thing, I was an Aircraft Crash Firefighter and Fire Inspector at 
Tinker Air Force Base when you were stationed there.  I left Oklahoma to take 
a Fire Chief position in Georgia in 1987.
Again, A GREAT web-site Paul.
73's  

Bob Junk
KA5JRX

From:	John Mann [n7qx@mac.com]
Sent:	Saturday, January 19, 2008 2:48 PM
To:	usafpilot@rochester.rr.com
Subject:	Website comments from a former upstater  n7qx

Paul
     LIke you comments and I think you are probably and sadly correct.  While 
CW has never been one of my favorites,  I  certainly see the value, if nothing 
else,  in  the discipline of having to learn it to achieve a higher operating 
level in Amateur Radio.  While I don't subscribe to the mindset that, "just 
because I had to learn 20 wpm everyone else does too"  I do think there is a 
great value in learning things that are not always easy--such as the way the 
older exams were structured.  I've been a VE for a number of years and one of 
the reasons I tend to avoid 2 meters and the like is that it is more like CB 
than anything else.  I'm an HFer thru and thru.
     I was born in Rochester in 1947.  Taught in Victor High School and then 
began moving about the country.  Have been in CA,  Idaho, Montana--hence the 7 
call....
   Saw your site while cruising through the ads in the arrl site and wanted to 
see what a buddipole looked like.  BTW,  nice array of equipment you have 
there.  I'm kind of a committed Icom guy myself and recently traded up to a 
Pro 3 which I like a whole lot after using the old 775 model.
    Anyways,  didn't want to bore you with a lot of nonsense but saw your 
location and thought I'd give you a line..

73

John

N7QX

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