[amsat-bb] Re: Keeping up with technology

[Angus McLeod]

You could always use a cellular phone.

They're a sort of HT, right?  Only better, because they have Angry 
Birds.....


On 11/06/2013 01:44 PM, R.T.Liddy wrote:
> It'll be a cold day in you-know-where when I ever use
> a non-Ham-Radio means to check into a Ham Net!!
>
> Bob K8BL
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: "wb5tuf at earthlink.net" <wb5tuf at earthlink.net>
> To: Clayton Coleman <kayakfishtx at gmail.com>; Ted <k7trkradio at charter.net>
> Cc: kk5do at arrl.net; "amsat-bb at AMSAT.Org" <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 6, 2013 6:56 AM
> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Keeping up with technology
>
>
> Why do you have check-ins?
>
> Is there some kind of participation credit?
>
> Glenn WB5TUF
>
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Clayton Coleman <kayakfishtx at gmail.com>
>> Sent: Nov 5, 2013 7:17 PM
>> To: Ted <k7trkradio at charter.net>
>> Cc: kk5do at arrl.net, "amsat-bb at AMSAT.Org" <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
>> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Keeping up with technology
>>
>> I personally suggested carrier pigeons for check-in at the 2013 Symposium.
>> It is certainly a unique net with all the various methods of check-in
>> available.
>>
>> 73
>> Clayton
>> W5PFG
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 7:03 PM, Ted <k7trkradio at charter.net> wrote:
>>
>>> ...Hiram and Marconi are spinning in their graves...jeez
>>>
>>> 73,
>>> K7TRK
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On
>>> Behalf Of Bruce
>>> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2013 4:44 PM
>>> To: amsat-bb at AMSAT.Org
>>> Subject: [amsat-bb] Keeping up with technology
>>>
>>> In trying to keep up with technology, the Houston AMSAT Net will now
>>> take check ins by Tweeting using the hash tag #houamsatnet      0200 UTC
>>> during the winters on Wednesdays (8PM Central Time)
>>>
>>> Be one of the first on your block to check in electronically. Of course,
>>> you
>>> can still use one of these:
>>> IRC, APRS, EchoLink, Telephone, E-mail or voice on the repeater directly.
>>>
>>> I would use Facebook but I have a thing against giving out all that
>>> information publicly. My Facebook account has been active for a long, long
>>> time and I have no friends. Not a one. In fact, once every year or two I
>>> check to see if it is still there.  I think I have broken the Facebook
>>> record for the longest running account without a friend. Too easy for bad
>>> things to happen with Facebook.
>>>
>>> 73...bruce
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Bruce Paige, KK5DO
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