Sad day, I was looking forward to seeing you Bob. Maybe next time

 

Wife says she is packed for the trip. Gotta get my stuff together tonight. Final prep of car is tomorrow's agenda. Leaving Thursday around mid-morning.

 

Hey Nick . . . Bob & Jackie . . . not me & Cindy. Bob is Cindy's son and Jackie is his fiance . . . I'll be there so you can't escape seeing me!

 

YES!!! I'm terrible with names, but I know that face

 

WN8VUX, then WB8VUX and now WR8Y here! I'm a 20WPM extra from back in the 80's. You and I gotta sit and have a conversation no one around us understands.
Klay is a ham as well (I THINK he is - he's a State Radio tech, we worked together in the 80's for RCA.) He blows into Fontana Friday Morning like a bad wind...

ANYWAY: You only need a license for 1-7 if you exceed the FRS ERP, so if the radio is a legal FRS "walkie-talkie" you need no license. I know what paragraph you are talking about - that is due to a NPRM back a few years ago - they never passed it. But manufacturers thought they were going to and put it in manuals.



BUT I HAVE thought about getting a GMRS license and putting a repeater on the hill above the lodge that would get us wide area coverage around the lodge to the Dam, fugitive bridge, RObbinsville and up the Dragon about half way. Already did the Propagation study.

But then I'd need to find about four dozen GMRS-legal radios - not hard to do with all the narrowbanding we did in the industry a few years back....

 

What ????


I have an FCC license. I did radio back in the 80s.
"I think I was in radio?!".

 

WE'v got to start our own "Crossfire Radio Guys" thread.....

 

Hey , for all you camera buffs , we will have a full moon on Fri.. It will be one of the best opportunities you'll have. 3 days of picture perfect , top of the mountain shots. Clear skies an beautiful weather. Its been said , don't forget a jacket , coooool nites , maybe a fire , some rubbing alcohol for all these old men....lol. Its gonna b a hoot!

 

Last fall there was no moon and I was able to see so many stars and the Milky Way from behind the cabanas.

 

I don't even remember my call letters it's been so long not in the HAM band.

And MR. Bad Wind is blowing in Thursday night. I hope in time for the drivers meeting...

 

Yea, the 80's.... When you could replace components.

 

OOPS. Boss caught me!

 

We have reports all over Facebook, the pilgrimage has begun in Florida and Canada. Beautiful and important people are on the roads, making their way to Mecca...

 

You're not going after all then?

 

HEY, I didn't say that ONLY Beautiful and Important people were going.


(And I said "were on the road", I'm still home, leaving tomorrow...)

 

I had to get a permit , for hauling this much ugly across state lines!...

 

OK ...a message to all of you who will be at Fontana Lodge or in the area tomorrow around lunch ...
I will be at Deals Gap (south end of the Dragon) around 12:30 - 1:00 for a lunch stop before heading for my arrival at Fontana Lodge
Anyone who wishes to join me for lunch at Deals Gap are welcome.

See ya all tomorrow !!

 

Jim, I see you watching the thread, I and Nancy from FL should pass thru Blairsville about 11 or so tomorrow (thursday) morning. But I bet you arent' comiing up till friday.

See ya soon.

 

Cathy and I will leave in the morning taking I-64 to I-75 most likely. See ya around 8:00 at the lodge.

 

running a little late, we will arrive in Blairsville around 5 pm,, then Friday morning to the BBQ. call me 954 336 3405 if we are close.