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   From: ianREMOVETHISjackson@g3ohx.demon.co.uk   
      
   In message , =?UTF-8?Q?Class_A_...   
   _=c3=87a_plane_pour_moi_... ?=  writes   
   >On 6/13/2016 11:36 AM, Class A ... Ça plane pour moi ... wrote:   
   >> On 6/12/2016 11:32 AM, Brian Howie wrote:   
   >>> In message , gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339   
   >>>  writes   
   >>>> "Brian Howie"  wrote in message   
   >>>> news:Q8oyTdWYR$WXFwG8@b-howie.demon.co.uk...   
   >>>>> In message , gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339   
   >>>>>  writes   
   >>>>>> "Southgate Amateur Radio News RSS Feed"    
   >>>>>> wrote   
   >>>>>> in message news:001a113e0772dbec040534d65ab9@google.com...   
   >>>>>>> Largs and Millport Weekly News columnist John Hutchinson MM6JHH   
   >>>>>>> reveals   
   >>>>>>> that life as a 'Radio Ham' opens up a world of opportunity in this   
   >>>>>>> week's   
   >>>>>>> 'Access for All' column   
   >>>>>> But what does a grown man with a licence targetted at the 5-year-old   
   >>>>>> know   
   >>>>>> about the subject, for, if recent threads are to be believed, he   
   >>>>>> hasn't   
   >>>>>> even   
   >>>>>> been tested on his knowledge of Ohm's Law, one of the most fundamental   
   >>>>>> aspects   
   >>>>>> of anything electrical?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Being blind makes it a little bit trickier I suppose.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> G3MUM   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>> It doesn't make it easy.   
   >>> Peter GM3MUM was exceptional overcoming severe disability.He was a keen   
   >>> CB operator  Incidentally he wasn't blind.  I met him when he lived in   
   >>> Edinburgh.   
   >>>   
   >>> Brian   
   >> how could he talk on cb?....I never heard him talk ...just cw ....   
   >>   
   >no wait...perhaps I did ....   
   >   
   I doubt if Peter ever really used much CW. Although he was reported as   
   being able to operate a morse key with the toes of his right foot (hence   
   his nickname 'Twinkletoes'), he was so disabled that I suspect his morse   
   test was more 'knowledge and appreciation of morse' than the rigorous   
   12wpm.   
      
   He was one of my Top Band 'locals' (about 80 miles south, in Redcar, N   
   Yorks), and I worked him fairly frequently on groundwave over a fair bit   
   of coastal sea-path. I met him once - at the South Shields rally in   
   1962.   
      
   The last time I worked him was in the late 80s, when he suddenly popped   
   up as a GM on 10m FM, having moved from Yorkshire to a care home in   
   Edinburgh. I'm surprised he ever got into CB (although maybe he used the   
   10m aerial for it) - but possibly he no longer had the facilities HF   
   facilities he once had. Life can't have been easy for him.   
   --   
   Ian   
      
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