Subj : Re: Packet BBS? To : Bob Worm From : Ed Vance Date : Fri Oct 11 2024 05:41 pm > Re: Re: Packet BBS? > By: Ed Vance to Bob Worm on Wed Oct 09 2024 20:57:00 > Hi, Ed. > To be honest since I tried to find the origins of that term and drew a blank > I'm not entirely comfortable with using it :) > I wasn't being sarcastic, BTW, I love that kind of setup. One of my closest > friends has an electrical engineering degree and worked for years in > broadcast radio amongst other things. I usually like to share my ideas for > little electronic projects with him and, if he says they sound awful, then I > go ahead and build them. > BobW > --- SBBSecho 3.20-Linux > * Origin: >>> Magnum BBS <<< - bbs.magnum.uk.net (21:1/205) I didn't think You were being sarcastic. LID definition is "a poor operator" is what I recall seeing in a ARRL book long ago. When in High School the Radio and Electronic Classroom was next to my Homeroom and I hung around the Radio room until the bell rang to go to class. Even before I got my Novice License I was called LID Vance. The Day my Novice License came in the mail I was listening to the 80M phone QSO where some of my School friends were in, so I called one of them on the telephone to tell him my license came in. He told the group "LID Vance got his ticket.". BTW where I said 80M phone I know it's called 75M phone by all Hams. Ed W9ODR - . - .. . --- SBBSecho 3.20-Linux * Origin: capitolcityonline.net * Telnet/SSH:2022/HTTP (21:1/175)