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   From: james.stewart497@ntlworld.com   
      
   "Ian Jackson"  wrote in message   
   news:XXYPjcJMEqXXFw9N@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.   
      
   yes talk about being dealt a bad hand....we shouldn't moan.......   
      
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