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April 5, 2008 - 05:35 — K5RIX

This may be the last thing y'all hear outta me, but maybe not. It's real nice to be back in Rhode Island, the state with no street signs. The overall effect could be perfected by not allowing numbers on buildings, or signage of any kind. It really makes a sailor feel welcome. But I digress.

The amateur radio community has made me welcome, and for that I am grateful. I like the good bunch of ham folks around here.

That we are all QRP'ers should make you a little skeptical about me. But it's alright. My operating philosophy has less to do with pedantics and more to do with Annie Oakley and the Treaty of Greenville.

We are recently returned to Middletown, RI from a Navy tour in Yokosuka, Japan, where my call was JE1GWN. It's good to be back, and I really do appreciate being able once again to swap WX reports with Cleveland and St. Louis. Also, Rhode Island is more rare than Japan, so my QSL count should improve.

Thank you one and all for the opportunity to participate in this fine club. 73 Ric

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April 9, 2008 - 12:20 — gallsup

no street signs in RI

Hey, now there's a reason for no street signs. RI took all those signs down in WW2 so landing parties from German U-boats couldn't find their way around - can't be too careful, you know. So might as well leave them down just in case!

:-)
72,
geoff

Geoff Allsup, W1OH gallsup@whoi.edu or w1oh@whoi.edu
Research Engineer at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
ARRL, QRP-L #2303, QRP-Canada #219, ARS #842, QRP-ARCI #11969, NAQCC #39, SOC #606, FP #1224, NEQRP #639, SKCC #452

September 11, 2009 - 17:59 — K5RIX

Good advice

And I suppose there is an equally compelling rationale as to why the manway covers always end up two inches below grade on freshly paved streets.

Whatever. Corpus Christi is really fine. A resort without the tourists, but with an economy. Maybe two weeks away from HF here. Why is it all the nice folks in RI are hams? Now I actually have the K5RIX FCC docs. Don't figure on moving in two years. Listen for me on 10.116+-. Ric exWI6I