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requesting a podcard
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TWIAR, Thank you for your wonderful program. It is by far my favorite show on Shortwave. I have been listening regularly for several years on WBCQ on 7.415. This week's program was heard ending at 2200 with a very nice signal 59+. I would enjoy receiving a QSL card. Michael Maher (NJ2X) 121 Taylor Ave. Hillsborough, NJ 08844 Michael NJ2X
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Been listening to the podcast. AJ4FJ -Greg
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Hi,
I heard the Random Access Thought on TWIAR podcast and it was great!
Please send a PodCard.
73, Eric Taylor KB1PJN
WHAT'S GOIN' ON HERE?
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Since amateur radio callbooks are top of mind for the moment, here is another callbook, apparently a regional online volume identified as t...
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Back in the days when I would make the monthly trek to the George Bowen palatial estate in fashionable Poestenkill, New York, I would sit w...
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WHENIWASAKID! From about the age of eight and on through my late teens, my one favorite pre-computer age geek thing to do was record sounds...
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Bootleggers on the business band! That's the subject of the next Random Access Thought coming up for the week ending August 2nd. In a re...
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. Please make point to download this week's editions of This Week In Amateur Radio and This Week In Amateur Radio International for th...
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For an untold number of decades here in Albany, there had been a nightly Capital District Repeater Net held at 6:30PM on the local 146.94 ma...
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. This last Sunday, a bunch of hams got together at the Empire State Plaza in downtown Albany for The Great Train Extravaganza! In attend...
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The paperback volume Kana de Manga: Japanese Sound FX is authored by Glen Kardy and illustrated by Chihiro Hattori and offers some interesti...
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. SO! After maybe a year or so of deploying various software enhanced digital images of the ominous HAL 9000 to grace the face of this blog...
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. That guy on the left...and that gal on the right are two new amateur radio operators. Both took their Technician Class License exam at th...
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
WANT? ASK! GET! GOOD!
Friday, January 1, 2010
All The E That's Fit To P!
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Please send me a TWIAR podcard at your earliest convenience.
Thank you!
73
de russ/n3yi
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Just heard TWIAR via podcast. If I think of it and conDX allow, I'll listen Saturday afternoon on WBCQ, but that doesn't always happen, so this allows me to listen whenever, and to take it with me around Boston.73'sDan MalloyEverett, MA 02149
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I lesion via a pod cast and love the program. TWIAR is saved into my favorites on my laptop, keep up the great work!Jacob Fields (kb0zia)Amateur Radio
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Request for TWIAR podcard. 73 MM6ADR
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Listening to that last podcast, and i would love a copy of the new card.PS tell Leo Laporte keep up the good work.Tom Tishken Ham Radio: KD4WOV GMRS: WPON678 US Army Mars Member Currently Hold a Commercial FCC License (General Radiotelephone Operator License GROL)(licensed FCC Radio Tech) 10 10 international: Member #74478 Central states VHF Society: Life Member Founder of the Florida 10 meter Group Founder of the Florida Amateur Radio Technical Society Strait Key Century Club #3684 ARRL Certified Volunteer Examiner W5YI Certified Volunteer Examiner Founder of the Cypress Chapter, and was removed member of the chapter.
Monday, November 9, 2009
The Invasion Of The PODCARD Snatchers!
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Hi Bill,
So you have the new Podcard? Sign me up.
I still continue to listen to TWIAR and look forward to your segments.
I also follow you on Twitter. (I'm ArcaneRadio)
Please send the card to
Jim Deneen kd8lwp
Pinckney, MI
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Hi,
Just heard about the new podcard in podcast edition 863, sounds good, could you email me one please?
Thanks
Tony
Twitter: swlistener
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Bill,
I really, really, did visit your blog. Awesome job.
Secret promo code: RATRAT
Would love to have an Official This Week in Amateur
Radio QSL card.
I am:
Charles Schaaf (wb8sho)
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Please send the new PODCard to
Bill Alpert, KG6NRV
Alta Loma, CA USA
Thanks!
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These are the latest This Week In Amateur Radio listeners to receive our brand new TWIAR PODCARD (with the secret mystery message). For more details, check out the following addresses:
http://twaud.io/qFQ
http://twaud.io/N2FNH
My good buddy Boleslav Krasnov, senior technician at Canarsie Wireless in Brooklyn, explains it all!
Saturday, September 19, 2009
MAIL'S IN!
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Subject: Re: @GOWRONE A QSL FOR YOU! BEST 73 DE N2FNH
wow that was cool! hahah funny too! you should do one with all the voices you have lol. i know some of the names of them, but who all do you have running the machine? lol.
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Hi Bill,
Jim Fidler here, VO1RV.
I'm a recording artist, white caner and have been doing a show called Republic Of Avalon Radio for 5 years now. Oh, did I forget to mention a huge fan of the Random Access Thought? I've been radio since birth; starting with a transistor radio, tuning around the AM band at nights, SW listener, broadcaster and advanced amateur operator since 1984. Due to RFI problems, I've been off the air for longer than I'd like to say. Recently, I've ordered the IC706 MKIIG. Those pesky nabours will have to follow me around in the mobile now if they want to complain. I'm beyond happy about finally being able to get back on HF, as you could well imagine.Well, the long and the short of it is, in celebration of my revived status as a ham, a radio ham that is, I've been the other kind all the way through, I'm producing a special edition of our show all about radio. As part of this show, I'd be tickled if I had a piece from you for inclusion. It need not be anything too complicated; even a brief bit just IDing Republic Of Avalon Radio would be fantastic. I'd love to have an ID from you anyway and link to you and TWIAR through our website at: www.republicofavalonradio.com So, what do you think? Can ya help a guy out??? Well, hopefully, thanks in advance. Cheers and a big 73 from myself and 88 from my XYL Lillian, who's call just happens to be VO1XYL.
Best, Jim
http://www.jimfidler.com/
http://www.republicofavalonradio.com/
Thanks a million Bill!
I very much look forward to it. Well, it's off to play some more with my new IC MKIIG. What a nice little radio. Can't wait to get it into the mobile and tak'er on the road.
Cheers and 73,
Jim - VO1RV
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lost my QSL card for TWIAR during my move. Please send me a new one! I still listen to you via the podcast. No one in my area seems to be broadcasting the show.
Jim Deneen - KD8LWP
I'm ArcaneRadio on twitter.
Thanks
Sunday, September 6, 2009
We Got Mail! Mail Is Good! We Like Our Mail!
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Hi! Thanks for your great blog entry regarding packet radio! Your mention of upstate NY prompted me to send this email. I will have been in the hobby for 2 years in Sept, and am involved with the Saratoga and Warren County groups. Saratoga does have a node that I really can't hit with my antenna (tuned too high), but I hope to eventually resolve that. I am also in a position to suggest that a digipeter be placed on Gore Mt, along with the APRS setup there. Last month, while in Saratoga after our NYSDOH Hospital drill, I messed around on the K2DLL machine and got into TARA's packet BBS. It was quite interesting :) I was heavily involved in Fidonet BBS's back in the late 80's and early 90's, so I have something of a clue. I'd really like to build a packet BBS here and tie into the Flexnet system, and have dreams of building some internet gateway services into it. I've emailed Rusty KE2PW, and he has offered a TNC, that may need some work, toward the project. I'd love a 9600 baud system, but the other links are just 2400, so I'll go slow at first. It's interesting to note that my internet access is also wireless, via satellite, thru wildblue.net, since cable is 5 poles down the road and I'm about 5 miles too far from the nearest CO for DSL. It's not that I'm really wanting to beat a dead horse, but I see the value in experimenting with an aspect of the hobby so close to my interest in computers, as well as it's value in emergency communications. I'm also interested in HSDD "hinternet" stuff, but I'm in "the boonies" so I hay have to wait for interest in that to restart. Anyhow, thanks again for the history lesson to this newbie. :) I can hit the Schenectady .06 machine fairly well from here, if you want to try a 2m QSO, and also have 10-80 HF available. 73 de Jeff KC2SDS Jeff Archambeault
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Hi!
I'm Etienne Ali, VA2SSS, listening through mp3 file downloads. I wish to receive the twiar qsl card. My address is: Etienne Ali Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Hey........
Love listening to ya'll. I listen at work while designing Electrical Circuits for commercial laundry equipment.
Keith w5kb
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this is kc0qjj. i've been a ham since 2003. not sure how qsl's work, just know the theory behind them. no idea what i need to put here? i live in springfield, mo. i listen via the podcasts (bcq can be hard to get and no repeaters here carry any of these cool ham radio shows) and i synch them to my new iphone!!!!!!!! beats having to be tied to the computer. the phone uses the built in screen reader so blind and visually impaired and blind people like me can use the phone. everything i encounter when i touch the screen will speak to me. it's wonderful! it's the same screen reader in my imac. i just followed the twitter account. i'm gowrone. if you guys tweet, feel free to follow me!!!!! i like your shows that you guys make! i also subscribe to the ar newsline, arrl, and rain podcasts. am i missing any? grin. oh yeah world of radio too....... lol am i still missing any? :). 73.
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Greetings! I been downloading TWIAR onto my iPod and listening to it while at work. Great way to keep up on things.
Billy (N4WJT)
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Mr Bill Baran N2FNH.
Greetings.
My name is Greg McCulkin, VK1TEQ, and I'm from Canberra, Australia. Finally I took a proper look at your blog. Saw the photo of You and Bill Continelly W2XOY Now I know what you look like. Always waited anxiously for your segments in TWIARI. Your segments have a thought provoking moral, "The Process Is More Important Than The Result". True. It seems indeed that the human race seems to prefer "presentation" than "functionality". I work in retail, my chosen career was supposed to Electrical Engineering. A long time age. P.S. Iv'e been here for 18 months, I'm a Sydney man born and bred, will "go home" one day. Always look forward to Bill Continelli's, W2XOY, segments as well. Would you please be kind enough to pass onto Bill too, thankyou. All the best. Gre.J.McCulkin VK1TEQ, (formally VK2TEQ
We also received written letters from the following folks:
Hank Vandenbrand, of Merlin, Ontario Canada and Gori Roberto, of Livorno, Italia! Many thanks to everyone who contacted This Week in Amateur Radio: QSL cards are on the way!
Bill N2FNH
Friday, April 17, 2009
ECHELON Wouldn't Be Interested...But You? Maybe!
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Hey Bill, I must say I have enjoyed your blogs and musings on TWIAR for some time. Just thought I'd drop you a quick line to say "hello"! As a wise man once said: "The static has ears"! On that 158.400 thing. It turns out there are a couple of blogs on the popular wireless on the topic. You kinda have to wind your way around that site to find them. I have my theories about how this might be happening. I will not say yet though. I will say that one of those blogs had someone track one of their sites to near Brunswick NY. I will also say that if you listen in the early morning to 158.400, you will hear some somewhat "regular" QSO's from guys who I think are the real "players" on this - one of whom's voice sounds very familiar??** Coincidence?? Apparently this has been an ongoing thing for the past 4 years or so and involves a network of repeaters which spans Northern Jersey to Northern NY. Hmmmm........ If you can stand it, listen to 158.4000 in the backround for a couple of days.
73's - Joe
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** JOE MADE A REFERENCE TO A REGIONAL SYSTEM IN THIS AREA WHICH I WITHHELD UNTIL MORE INFORMATION COMES FORTH. DON'T WORRY BE HAPPY!
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Hi Bill;
My name is also Bill. I visited your Random Access Thought blogspot. I enjoyed reading it. I also listen to you on radio station WBCQ, 7.415 Mc Shortwave, when I can hear the station. I used to listen to you on a local amateur radio repeater on 145.19 Mc, but you are not there anymore. I would like a QSL card. I just had lunch, a bowl of Cream of Mushroom soup. I made it with milk instead of water. My computer, with which I visited your blogspot, is a Dell INSPIRON E1505 laptop. I have many shortwave radios, but I use a Kaito 1103 to tune in WBCQ.
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I enjoyed your blogspot very much. I made it a Favorite on my computer, and will visit it again. A friend of mine, also named Bill, wants me to start a blog. After visiting this site, I may.
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I like the name Bill, don't you? Although sometimes I want to be called "Louie". Some people call me "CLO", I don't know why. Please send me a QSL card. The secret code is RATRAT.
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My address is
Bill Continelli
Rensselaer, NY
Sunday, March 29, 2009
THERE'S A LETTER IN YOUR MAILBOX!!!!!
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(Editor's Note: With reference to The Random Access Thought: The Story of Reginald)
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Great job be it true or fiction just a great story. Since you are in Buffalo I would have liked to heard a short WKBW clip worked into to show.
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Jerry Fisher
VE4SAT
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Hi, I didn't write for a QSL..But would like one....My comment was about the Security Gard/CB story. I don't know if this was true or fiction but a great piece. If it was in Buffalo I thought you could have worked a WKBW clip into the background... KW is Buffalo..The last time I was there was in 1999. I turned on the radio expecting KB to be rockin away instead a baseball game-times change. I lived in the Springfield,Mass area in the early 60's and remember WKBW and WTRY in their prime as rockers.
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Jerry Fisher
VE4SAT
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Hi, I am sure that a good segment of your audience are Viet Nam Era Vets...Stratovision was used during the early phases of the War. A mention of this would have been great.
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Jerry Fisher
VE4SAT
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Hi Jerry, Thanks for writing! During the course of research on Stratovision, there was no direct reference to Viet Nam era deployment but I have also heard that such techniques have been used by the USA in Afghanistan in recent times. The orginal concept for Stratovision took place in 1940's and 50's as a non-military educational apllication. But perhaps we have some core material for a future Random Access Thought. I've been on hiatus for a few months and plan to start cutting new programs soon, so this may be good follow-up. > Anyway, thanks for writing. I believe you wrote for a QSL Card. I was wondering if you received it. More later!
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Bill/N2FNH
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found your programs on backmasking and oija entertaining (though the latter was creepy). My friend in Pennsylvania recorded the programs and sent them on a CD to me (in Kansas city, mo) and I found them cool. My friend has lots of radio equipment and an huge antenna he strings through a fence, so he can record stuff from WOKIE and WBCQ, which is probably where he got your program from. I don't have much use for a QSL card (except as a coaster), but anything else would be cool. I guess my friend could use such a card, but I'm not sure. Anyways, please make more shows about weird or silly stuff and less rants about radios.
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"Wagner, Christopher"
Sunday, December 28, 2008
QSL??? Yeah! We Got That!!!
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Just dropping you guys a line to get the QSL card. I'm a new ham, got my ticket in April, just upgraded to general 2 weeks ago, and a friend told me about the show on 7.415 Mhz, and with my shiny new rig, and horrible dipole that looks like something the cat rejected as being too pitiful to even bother with, and probably right from being half baked by incidental RF experiments in the front room. So I first picked you up on 7.415, then to the website, and downloaded a few past issues, love the amateur archives and the ham humor parts of it, my father use to work with Bill Hamilton the guy who recorded the repeaterisms for the 7.76 repeater here in Columbus, and quite a few horror stories of how bill used to torment his bosses, apparently quite a character. Any ways I heard the email addy for the QSL card, (haven't gotten one yet) so thought i would throw you an email, and snail mail for the shiny QSL card.
Charles Johnston III (W8KWA)
3444 Independence Street
Grove City Ohio 43123
Saturday, December 6, 2008
You've Got Mail! Or Some Such Similar Registered Trademark...
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Thanks for the write up on this subject. My brother is trying to get me into this stuff. I hope it does not die to soon. Keep up the good work
John Flint KC9MVQ
9216N 100E
Lucerne, IN 46950
secret promo code: RATRAT
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Hi,
I would love to get a QSL card for the show. I heard your station (listening now) on 7.415MHz @ 22:00 UTC 11/30/08…. You’re S9 + 10 into North Florida. I’m running a Yaesu FT-840, along with a vertical 180 foot loop.
73!
John Lynes
K4NIN
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Lots and Lots of Letters!
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Just wanted to say that I enjoy listening to TWIAR. I use an old Hallicrafters S-38 with 40 feet of wire to pick up WBCQ. My QTH is in Ohio and the radio show comes in great! I have turned 3 other hams in my area on to TWIAR and we enjoy listening to the show and making comments on the 2 meter band while listening to the broadcast.
Thanks again and keep up the great work.
73
KC8MXW
Aaron Beatty
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QRA IO83LW
63 Manor Road
Fleetwood
UK
John Earnshaw
M0JFE
Ride The Waves And Make New Friends
Packet M0JFE@GB7FCR.#16.GBR.EU
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just finished listening to another episode of TWIAR… I enjoy the Random Access the best. You had solicited email to obtain a QSL Card if I sent information about me. I'm Kevin Prodromides (KE7OSU) I'm in Tucson Arizona
9331 N Denise Ann Pl
Tucson, AZ 85742
I receive TWIAR pod cast from http://www.twiar.org/international.html
73's, Kevin (KE7OSU)
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Sent from my BlackBerry Smartphone provided by Alltel
(wrote back asking for address)
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Also, This Week in Amateur Radio received standard mail for the following listeners!
Peter Bentley East Aurora, New York
Robert Garland NX3S Perkasie, Pennsylvania
George Dupee K1AAG Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
Everyone mentioned here in this posting will receive an Official This Week in Amateur Radio
QSL Card!

Saturday, November 22, 2008
QRZ? FB! QSL! 73!
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Just wanted to say that I enjoy listening to TWIAR. I use an old Hallicrafters S-38 with 40 feet of wire to pick up WBCQ. My QTH is in Ohio and the radio show comes in great! I have turned 3 other hams in my area on to TWIAR and we enjoy listening to the show and making comments on the 2 meter band while listening to the broadcast. Thanks again and keep up the great work.
73
KC8MXW
Aaron Beatty
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QRA IO83LW
63 Manor Road
Fleetwood
UK
John Earnshaw
M0JFE
Ride The Waves And Make New Friends
Packet M0JFE@GB7FCR.#16.GBR.EU
Friday, November 14, 2008
Get the Door! It's the Mail!
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Hi Bill Just stumbled across your Telnet News article, where you traversed some of the Dutch CB Packet network, including my own. Was quite interesting how you have a poke around there, pity we didn't get to chat at the time :) Regards Greg aka PE2GRT
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Hi,
I'd like you to know that I'm enjoying listening to TWIAR every week since about 2 months. I download the podcast usually on Sunday and listen to it over breakfast. I am a ham since 1972, my callsign is PA0RDA There are no repeaters broadcasting the show so download is the only option for me. Tanks for the entertainment.
Adrian
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Can you please send me one of the TWIAR QSL cards?
Greg Stoddard
4750 E. Union Hills Dr. #2012
Phoenix AZ 85050
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Hello OM,
I finally decided to send a reception report as you so earnestly request each week. I receive the TWIAR podcast each week and have been listening faithfully for two years or more. I really enjoy your editorial pieces and the sound effects with which you accentuate really makes for a FB production. Speaking of sound effects, might I suggest that your listeners likely would want to hear more of how you became involved with audio work and the sources of the sounds. Every time I hear your stuff, I wonder how the creativity and humor came about.
73 & best wishes,
Norm
WB5MJM
Fort Collins, Colorado
Saturday, November 1, 2008
The Post Man Always Rings Twice!
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Bill,
Please send me a TWIAR QSL card. I listen to TWIAR via the iTunes podcast and enjoy it immensely.
Thanks in advance and keep up the good work.
David Walden Sr., AK4DW
4929 Wise Springs Road
Knoxville, TN 37918
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Thanks for the write up on this subject. My brother is trying to get me into this stuff. I hope it does not die to soon.
Keep up the good work
John Flint KC9MVQ
9216N 100E
Lucerne, IN 46950
secret promo code: RATRAT