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Date Posted: 07:37:41 01/28/12 Sat
Author: High Line Rider
Subject: Re: A Devestating Horse Story*
In reply to: Andrew-1 's message, "Re: A Devestating Horse Story*" on 08:59:11 01/27/12 Fri

Well I Am Really Upset Even More So Now , My Son Who Is A Ham Radio Operator Here In Eastern Washington and He Meet's With The Sheriff's Dept. Constantly For Emergency Responce , He Was Able To Access The Sheriff's Log For Thursday.
The Deputy Came Out To The Scene To Shoot The Horse (For Me ).
The Owner Was On Site Too By This Time , That (@%$#&^^%$#@)
I Omitted My Own Cuss Word's , He Told The Deputy He'd Lead The Horse Home And Call A Vet To See How Bad It Was.

How Do You Lead A Horse With A Shattered Left Leg ?????
Make Him HOP ???
My Son Said > I Doubt He'd Call A Vet To Euthanise The Poor Animal. IPray To God He Did.
Or He Shot The Horse Himself.

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[> [> [> Re: A Devestating Horse Story* -- Andrew-1, 08:45:43 01/28/12 Sat [1]

Bad deal all the way around.

Speaking of Hams, My Dad was a Ham Operator deluxe. He had five towers and a two story garage full of tons of Ham Radio equipment. Over 50 years of Ham Radio, started in the Navy during WW2 as a communications officer. In his retirement years he contacted every country in the world with a card to prove it including North Korea which is extremely hard to contact, it's typically illegal there. I have like 4 shoe boxes of Ham Radio cards he recieved in the mail from every place in the world. His setup was called one of the best in California, if not the nation. Even with as little as 100k investment, he often built his own components from scratch cause he understood core electronics so well. That gave him a big edge on taken the limits to the edge. In Ham Radio it's illegal to break the guidelines for power output and various other rules, so he would take those rules and improve the signal, clarity, and improve continuity as best he could. He had a great signal, even in the most remote parts of the world. After he died, I gave most of his Ham equipment to a good friend of his, who was part of the Trust for his equipment. I still have yet to take the big towers down yet!

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[> [> [> [> Re: A Devestating Horse Story* -- High Line Rider, 15:13:14 01/28/12 Sat [1]

Ham Radio's Are Great For Emergency Communication.
It's Fun To Talk Around The World. My Son Enjoy's It Alot.

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[> [> [> [> Re: A Devestating Horse Story* -- Andrew-1, 08:51:27 01/29/12 Sun [1]

One of the best things about Hams is the ability to communicate all around the world during natural disasters. However, if you don't have generators or battery backups, it won't make any difference. You still have to have power to run the operations. But for a big ham operation, that would be a small investment. Ironically as big as my Dads was, he didn't have any backups or generators mainly because it was pure hobby for him, as he was not an emergency operator. But he could certainly listen in on hams around the world during disasters. As for me, I never went into Ham stuff, but computers instead. Ham Radio is a dying breed, very much outdated by computers. Currently there are probably around 50,000 hams in the USA, much less then the old days. Also Ham radio has been infected by computer technology, so it's not purely as analogue as it used to be, and for that reason many Hams hate the infusion of computers into the process. Times are a changing.

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[> [> [> [> [> Re: A Devestating Horse Story* -- adamseve, 06:41:33 01/31/12 Tue [1]

Yes, Art Bell creator of the nighttime super rated radio program "Coast to Coast" is a huge ham operator. He had a huge setup in Pahrump Nevada and now in Manila. He stated that you no longer have to know Morse code to get your license. The hams are needed when cell towers and land lines are down. Young people need to recognize this and learn. About the horse. It was probably all about the money. Would the Sheriff have sent a bill? Poor horse. Poor you. adamseve

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[> [> [> [> [> Re: A Devestating Horse Story* -- Andrew-1, 08:56:56 01/31/12 Tue [1]

A group of millionaires in Sweden or Finland put together a enormous ham tower, well I think several towers in order to get young people interested in Ham Radio. There is a website for it with lots of photos of the towers but I can't find the link right now. Anyway I believe they set it up so young people could use the setup from the towers over the Internet. It seems weird because really using the Internet totally negates the whole Ham experience in a way, but I guess it's was meant as a sort of replica to learn from, although as I said computers have been intergrated into Ham technology so just about anything can be done nowadays which means it's no longer a pure Ham Radio experience unless you are still using the old transmitters and tube technology which my Dad was. There was solid state transisters intergrated into Ham Radio many years ago, but not computer technology which are just circuit boards. The idea was back then you could build your own stuff from the ground up with transisters, resisters, capacitors, modulators, etc, etc. However, it's impossible for Hams to build anything anymore in line with computer motherboards because most of that is robot micro technology. Even if you knew and understood the circuits, you couldn't do it with the old soldering irons and solder, which my Dad was so proud of using from scratch.

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[> [> [> [> [> [> Re: A Devestating Horse Story* -- adamseve, 06:56:30 02/01/12 Wed [1]

Your Dad had a great

















Your Dad had a great "hobby" where he used his own mind and talents. I don't think very many young people can say that now. They are on tchno overload. Just observe people at an airport or a movie they are constantly texting. Where is the time for anything else? How did we elders ever survive without it? adamseve

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[> [> [> [> [> [> Re: A Devestating Horse Story* -- Andrew-1, 08:36:15 02/01/12 Wed [1]

Times have changed for sure. Today there is a disdain for learning math the old way when a calculator can do it for you. So kids take whatever shortcuts they can to get the job done. The end goal is a to get a good paying job, not to be well versed in understanding what they learned, redundency built into the learning process. Pretty much we let the computers do all the thinking and robots do all the hard work, so what is left?

My Dad retired from a solid career job with good benifits and pension so he could spend the rest of his life tinkering with his hobbies. Yes, it takes time to tinker but his mind was clear as a bell when he died. People are often on overload today, partly the blame both of rat race and people who decide to complicate their lives much more then what's needed to live. I prefer simplicity, nature and solitude. That works well for me.

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[> [> [> [> Re: A Devestating Horse Story* (Ham Radio cards) -- Joe H., 12:29:33 02/05/12 Sun [1]

Andrew, re: "I have like 4 shoe boxes of Ham Radio cards he recieved in the mail from every place in the world."

Of that is a complete collection you ought to be proud of to have, and maybe display sometime in like a local basement museum.

Last year I saw a few for sale on e-bay. The special ones are those with the operator's on them as picture postcards. I bought a few to add to my First Day Cover, First Flight Cover and stamp collection.

Plus when in Boy Scouts back in the 1960s I only made it to Second Class Scout, as having flunked in Morse Code and not making all those different types of rope knots.

Joe

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