Pluggers by Rick McKee for January 27, 2016

73 de KC8SZR

I haven’t done radio since community college… and that was roughly a decade ago!

73 de W4YBO

I wonder how many Hams read this strip?

73 KD8YPC

73 de W3LQ

Got my first ticket back in 1969!!

Looks like most of us.

Looks like my old “man cave”, but I doubt I have the dexterity for Morse code on the old Vibroplex telegraph any more.

WB8RCR

Does this count as a QSO, and how do I log it?

73 de AA7SR

WN2LVW in 1962 (I said it stood for Living Victorious Warrior, my buddy, also a ham, said it stood for Lowly Vermilion Worm.)

73 de WØDMH!

de KL7FAZ “back in the day” ..WAY BACK ! 73’s & QRT

Better than facebook! :-D

73, KB7IFS,My Mother came up with I Found a Sweetheart when I married my Ham husband (and I had the ticket before the husband…)

73 — KF7UZQ

I got my first ticket, W6KAH, in 1949 when I was 14 years old. Changed it to W1BSV when I came to Boston area to start college. I still renew it, but truth be told I haven’t been on the air for quite a while.See: http://wkrp.org/jeff/W1BSV.html

73 de XE2PDZ

73 de KA1VUW, the Very Ugly Weasel…

Thank you Gary for your support of Amateur Radio in today’s panel. It was very gracious of you to do this.

73- N8JKO

My Grandfather on my Mom’s side was a Ham

W0ITQ

He died along with a fellow operator as the result of a car crash in Mexico in 1959 while returning from a Ham Radio Convention held in Mexico City

This ‘toon brought back happy long ago memories of my dad sitting for hours on a stool in a virtual closet that he turned into his ’radio shack’ — exchanging conversation with other ham operators he’d manage to connect with… He’s been gone many years now but I still remember his call letters — OXB - which stood for OBOE-XRAY-BAKER- and I like to think he’s still sitting somewhere in the spirit world sending out messages and getting ones I send to him.

WA4FHY reads Pluggers. Also be sure to check Pluggers for 20may11 and repeated on 24may13 – while not exactly ham radio, pretty closeThanks to Gary Brookins and OM N8JKO73, WA4FHY

As someone who was a hammer, if there is such a word.I was wondering what was being said. Also, did CBs kill Hams?

Way to go folks.closest I came was with my $300 Short wave radio which I enjoyed emensly.

WB2TZK/7J1ABK

Ever since I was a little boy, I spent many an hour listening toan old Zenith Long Distance shortwave radio that my grandfather had I was hooked on radio. Now many years later, I became a Ham operator and enjoy it very much as my main hobby. 73’s, KA7DRE

DON’T BE SUPRIZED IF 5 OR 10 YEARS FROM NOW WHEN BACK IN THE DAY WHEN A PLUGGER WAS INVOLVED IN SOCIAL MEDIA RAN A COMPUTER BULLETIN BOARD SYSTEM THAT WAS CONNECTED TO A MODEM AND A TELEPHONE LINE.