TAKE A LOOK AT LAST WEEKS APPLE SLICES...7AM FIELD DAY MORNING LOOKING WEST FROM THE KNICKERBOCKER POST OFICE ON E. BROADWAY, HOME OF POB 1052 NY NY 10002 SURE WAS A DIFFERENT VIEW FROM YESTERDAY MORNING...SAME PARKING SPOT SAME CAMERA BUT LOTS DIFFERENT WX...FLOODS ARE OVER HEAT LIKE THE DESERT HAS RETURNED TO THE CORE OF THE BIG APPLE JUST ONE WEEK TOO LATE...NOTE THE MANHATTAN BRIDGE THIS WEEK AND CITY HALL AND OTHER BUILDINGS JUST BEHIND THE BRIDGE THAT YOU COULD NOT SEE LAST WEEK....

********A QUESTION....IT HAS BEEN SUGGESTED THAT THE "22 CREW" COMPILE A WALKING/DRIVING TOUR VIDEO OR CD OF BIG APPLE SITES...STUFF YOU WOULD NEVER SEE ON A TOURIST VIDEO BUT STUFF WE FIND INTERESTING AND EXCITING..THIS WOULD BE DONE OVER A PERIOD OF TIME MAYBE ENDING UP WITH ICOM DAY OR NUYEARS EVE OR SOMETHING...WOULD ANYONE HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE REAL SITES AND SOUNDS OF THE BIG APPLE AND ITS SURROUNDINGS? LET US KNOW THIS COULD BE AN INTERESTING PROJECT....

ON THE WAY BACK FROM THE POST OFFICE YESTERDAY MORNING WE COULD NOT HELP BUT STOP AT THE "22 CREW" FIELD DAY SITE....MADE A TON OF CONTACTS: W8KB/N8DMW/KA9ZHY ALL IN 3 MINUTES AND HERE IS HOW IT LOOKED:

JUST WAIT'LL NEXT YEAR!

ICOM DAY 2006
TWO NINE-29

THIRTY-THREE 3-3 WAS THE NUMBER...NO THATS NOT A SIGNAL REPORT FROM A COUNTY HUNTER..THAT WAS THE NUMBER OF REMAINING IC DAY TICKETS BUT NOW THANKS TO WA4LT-WALTER WHO ALWAYS WAITS TILL THE VERY END TO MAKE HIS PLAY THE NEW NUMBER IS 2-9 ..TWENTY NINE....GOOD LUCK WALTER AND WITH 29 TO GO WE ARE WAY AHEAD OF LAST YEAR...

760914/15 RALPH FARIELLO-K2PF
761016 STU TYLER-WA4JUO
761017 MARK GROSSMAN-K2CON
761018 ROGER SWINNEY-W8CNJ
761019/034 SAM NEAL-N5AF
761020 CAL EPSTEIN-W9JAN
761021-30 MORT BARDFIELD-W1UQ
761031 RANDY DORMAN-KB3IFH
761032-3 JIM FOSTER-NN7K
761035/36 ROLAND CRANE-W4MUR
761037 SAM PLESSINGER-W8GRP
761038 JOHN R DAVIS-WA5RHF
761041 RONALD E. MILLER-KB0TDA
761042 AIMEE R. STERLING-KB0TXA
761040 PHIL WHITEHOUSE-W1GEE
761039 JIM COVINGTON-AA0XJ
761043/44 DICK BeGOLE-VE3WII
761045 JEFF ALLEN-KB9YSJ
761046/7 KEN SCHULZ-KB5UJY
761048/9/10/11 LOU PERSONS-W4EYE
761052/3/4/5 WALTER---W A 4 L T
761056/7/8/9 BRUCE-AD7AO
761060/61 DAVID-WB2DZH
761062/63 HOWARD-N2PZK
761064 DAVID-WZ6X
761065 KEN-W9KB
761066 TIM-K4IIS
761067 JIM-WA4IYZ
761068 LUCKY-K9LUK
761069 MARK-WI1SON
761070 WILLIAM-W9BEL
761071/72 BILL-N8DSG
761074/74 BILL-WB1GKG
761075 STEVE-KO4QT
761076 JIM-KF4GNJ
761077 ROBERT-K2GSL
761078 SUE-KD5LKG
761079/80 GEORGE-WA2AGR
761081/82/83/84 WALTER -WA4LT

B I R T H D A Y S...

JUST AROUND THE END OF THE 1988/89 SCHOOL YEAR...JUNE OF 1989 TO BE EXACT WE WERE CALLING CQ ON 21.395 AND THIS STATION COMES BACK TO US...K 0 SOMETHING...KIDS OPERATING AT THAT TIME LOOKED AT ME I LOOKED AT THEM AND NONE OF US HAD A CLUE...SO IN TYPICAL 22 CREW FASHION WE NEVER GIVE UP TILL WE GET THAT STATION...TURNS OUT TO BE NONE OTHER THAN K0SKD-GENE JOINING US FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME ON THE 15M NET....THE REASON WE COULD NOT FIGURE IT ALL OUT IS THAT GENE TALKS FUNNY AT LEAST THAT IS WHAT THE KIDS SAID....THEN...GENE TOLD US WE TALK FUNNY....HE HAD TROUBLE UNDERSTANDING US....AND ONCE AGAIN THE VALUE OF HAM RADIO IN THE CLASSROOM IS PROVEN AS A BUNCH OF CHILDREN IN MANHATTAN FIND OUT THAT THE REST OF THE COUNTRY MAY SPEAK ENGLISH BUT IT SURE SOUNDS DIFFERENT FROM THEIRS....NEEDLESS TO SAY K0SKD WAS HOOKED ON THE 22 CREW....SEPT 1989 HE WAS THERE WAITING FOR US ON THE FIRST DAY OF CLASS AND FROM THEN ON OL FARMER GENE WORKED THOUSANDS OF KIDS OVER THE COMING YEARS AND THE ONES THAT COME BACK NOW AS ADULTS ALL ASK FOR HIM....HIS STORIES FROM THE FARM...LIFE IN IOWA..OR MISSSOURI DEPENDING AS THE FARM SITS ON THE LINE....THE REAL PICTURES AS THIS WAS PRE DIGITAL CAMERA DAYS...IT MADE THE DAY FOR SO MANY KIDS AND EVERYONE LEARNED...OVER THE YEARS WE HAVE MET GENE SEVERAL TIMES...BRYAN, WN9Y, HOSTED THE 22 CREW EYEBALL ONE SUMMER YEARS AGO AND GENE CAME OUT FOR THAT ALONG WITH HIS XYL JUANITA....GENE SPENDS THE WINTERS IN ARIZONA NEAR HIS SON TOM AND WHEN THE ARRL SW CONVENTION WAS HELD IN AZ HE CAME OVER AND MET US THERE....WELL TODAY...JULY 2 ...OL FARMER GENE IS 80 AND AS FAR AS I CAN TELL NO DIFFERENT THAN BACK IN 89 JUST BETTER!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GENE:

*********DID WE MISS YOU THIS WEEK? HAVE WE MISSED YOU THIS YEAR? WE ARE GOOD BUT WE ARE NOT PSYCHIC...MAKE SURE WE KNOW WHEN YOUR BIRTHDAY OR OTHER IMPORTANT EVENT IS.

THE HONOR ROLL

AS OF YESTERDAYS MAIL IT SEEMS LIKE EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE THEIR HONOR ROLL MAIL....IF NOT LET US KNOW...REMEMBER...THE ROLL MAKES THE CREW POSSIBLE..WHEN YOU GET THE MAIL FILL IT OUT AND SEND IT IN...

NEW ADMITS TO CLASS

WE WANT TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO WELCOME NEW MEMBERS OF THE CLASSROOM NET:

JUNE 26 CLYDE-AB8KY
JUNE 27 K2WH-BILL
WB7DMX-BOBBY

AND REMEMBER WHEN YOU 3 HIT 80 WE WANT A PICTURE OF YOU AND THE CAKE! WELCOME TO THE "22 CREW"

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UP THREE THIS WEEK TO 2,818...NO WE ARE NOT TALKING ABOUT THE DOW WE ARE TALKING ABOUT OUT MANUAL PROJECT..CMON BOYS DIG OUT THE ODD BALL BOOKS YOU WILL NEVER NEED AGAIN AND SEND THEM IN.

JULY 8 & 9-FOURTH ANNUAL TEACHERS MEETING....

............PROMISES TO ONCE AGAIN BE THE HIGH POINT OF THE EDUCATIONAL SEASON IN REGARD TO AMATEUR RADIO AND EDUCOM

703-386-2110 IS THE NUMBER FOR THE PLAZA ...MAKE THE CALL NOW!

WE WILL BE ARRIVING AT THE PLAZA SOMETIME LATE ON FRIDAY AND LEAVING MONDAY....SADLY THIS YEAR MANDALAY BAY HAD TO CANCEL BUT LOOK FOR US BACK THEIR NEXT YEAR...

IF YOU WANT TO CHAT ANYTIME DURING THE 4 DAYS OF THE CONFERENCE JUST CALL OUR CELL 516-658-6947.

AS OF NOW THE PLAN IS TO MEET AROUND 5PM SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE ROOFTOP POOL OF THE PLAZE FOR ALL TO GET TO KNOW EACH OTHER..WE WILL HAVE OUR OWN LITTLE AREA "UP ON THE ROOF" SO JUST LOOK FOR US OR CALL THE CELL.

SUNDAY MORNING 10AM THE FORUM ROOM OPENS FOR A FULL DAY OF EDUCOM....

NOW PAY ATTENTION...I LOVE THIS PART AS WE ALWAYS GET TO SEE WHO IS READING THEIR APPLE SLICES......NO APPLE SLICES NEXT WEEK...WE WILL RETURN 2 WEEKS FROM TODAY WITH THE LAS VEGAS HI-LIGHTS.....OH AND WE WILL MAKE SURE TO PUBLISH THE NAMES AND CALLS OF ALL WHO ASK US NEXT WEEK HEY WHERES MY APPLE SLICES?

DAYTON 2006
SHOOTOUT AT ALEX'S CORRAL

HEY PAL..U WANNA TAKE MY PICTURE..OH YEAH WELL IM GONNA TAKE UR PICTURE OH YEAH ...WE WILL WE SEE ABOUT THAT OK WIZEGUY GO FER UR CAMERA

AND HERE YOU SEE N8DMW SHOOT ME AS I SHOOT HIM!

A VERY CONFUSED LADY

MEET LINDA...XYL OF KO4QT STEVE...ALSO MEET STEVE AND LINDA NEXT WEEK AT THE TEACHERS MEETING....
HOWEVER THIS IS LINDA IN DAYTON...TAKE A LOOK AT HER EXPRESSION...THERE ARE SO MANY POSSIBLE CAPTIONS HERE IT IS AMAZING...POOR LADY HAS NO IDEA WHAT THE SIGN MEANS OR WHY....THEN AGAIN...ALL OF YOU ON THE CLASSROOM NET KNOW EXACTLY WHAT IS GOING ON AND THIS WEEK I WANT TO THANK N8ZA FOR QUALIFYING OVER AND OVER AGAIN FOR THE TITLE...

OK TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING..WELL YOU KNOW WHAT UR MOTHER SAID ABOUT THAT SO YOU WILL JUST HAVE TO WAIT 2 WEEKS OR SO FOR MORE PICTURES FROM DAYTON HOWEVER WE WANT TO LEAVE YOU WITH JUST ONE MORE...YOU KNOW IN CERTAIN STATES CARS HAVE NO FRONT LICENSE PLATES...WELL WE HEARD THAT DOWN IN "ROCKY TOP" LAND THE GREAT STATE OF TENNESSEE HOME OF DAVEY CROCKET AND OTHER NOTABLES LIKE KG4MLO THEY WERE THINKING OF HANDING OUT FRONT PLATES TO HAMS ONLY AND HERE IS WHAT AN EXPERIMENTAL ONE COULD LOOK LIKE:

THIS WEEK AT THE CORE:
EVERYDAY FROM CREW HQ MONDAY TO THURSDAY, WA4LT/N8DMW AND THEIR MERRY BAND OF HELPERS WILL BE IN CHARGE FRIDAY...REMEMBER WE HAVE SPIES SO BEHAVE........


DING DONG!!!

In school one of the first questions kids will ask once they become familiar with the operation of amateur radio is....does anybody listen? .....is it just the people we are talking to that hear us or do we have an audience? naturally i always tried to explain that yes we have a vast listening audience but try and prove it to a questioning 12 year old...thats why swl's always have a special place with the "22 crew" .. There was nothing better than a card or note from someone that just listens and over the last 26 years of the "22 crew" there have been many...sadly ham radio does not have arbitron ratings so this is the next best method of proving a listening audience.
then there was last thursday...we made a run to the post office just before closing time of 5pm...this is just a few minute ride but i always try to make at least one mobile contact....putting out a call on 7.238 got no action not even from an enraged county hunter...so we switched to 146.52 and tried...bingo a call from k2csx...just across long island sound in the bronx.. Not the other side of the planet but not a bad shot for 2m mobile'ing either....
csx told me his name was mark and that he knew all about wb2jkj....back around 1981 he had a icom ic-71a shortwave radio and tuned into the classroom net on 21.395 & 7.238, listening to us gave him the nudge to become a ham...and now he is one:

Thats a yaesu ft-920 in the picture ... Mark went on to say a lot....like: "that n8ua you talk to jim...i never heard a signal that strong...and those crazy guys (he got that rite!)... mlo and dmw and the other one fx somethng and n8za chuck he is another one with a big signal...the gin joke of the day is terrible but i gotta listen for it...." and there was more but my note taking and driving is not the best....
so yes kids......we got listeners......and it sure is nice to hear from them no matter how it happens...
as a follow up to this mark is working on becoming a general and once he does promises to become a daily checkin rather than a daily "tuner inner"!

Before setting up field day at the beach the plan was to get the mail in manhattan then head back to the site. the above picture taken about 7:30 am saturday morning the 24th outside the post office -pob 1052- in manhattan...parked on e broadway looking west thats the corner of e broadway and allen st where the white truck on the left is parked...straight ahead is the manhattan bridge..it connects brooklyn and manhattan...and in that big white area beyond the bridge are giant buildings like city hall and the federal building and so on....do you notice you cant see them? do you know why you cant seem them? because the wx is awful thats why...pouring rain and fog at 7:30 am in manhattan turned into deluging rain flooding lightening and high wind on the beach where we were to do field day from...so much lightening that the beach was closed to all...
nothing worse than soggy pizza covered in sand and the chance of getting fried while eating it...
operations were from crew hq starting at 2pm and lasting till 4pm when the lightening just got too frequent and way too close...we managed 85 contacts in 2 hours on 7.238 and one of them was our very own "classroom net" checkin ... John-w2lks from the jersey shore....see you all in 2007 when we hope to keep the pizza dry and get the contacts up!

Joining us for the very first time in any icom day is george-wa2agr from missouri....yes a 2 in zero land....george a giant "22 crew" welcome to icom day 2006 and the rc of jhs 22...we appreciate your friendship and support.....& good luck!

        760914/15           RALPH FARIELLO-K2PF
            761016          STU TYLER-WA4JUO
            761017          MARK GROSSMAN-K2CON
            761018          ROGER SWINNEY-W8CNJ
            761019/034      SAM NEAL-N5AF
            761020          CAL EPSTEIN-W9JAN
            761021-30       MORT BARDFIELD-W1UQ
            761031          RANDY DORMAN-KB3IFH
            761032-3        JIM FOSTER-NN7K
            761035/36       ROLAND CRANE-W4MUR
            761037          SAM PLESSINGER-W8GRP
            761038          JOHN R DAVIS-WA5RHF
            761041          RONALD E. MILLER-KB0TDA
            761042          AIMEE R. STERLING-KB0TXA
            761040          PHIL WHITEHOUSE-W1GEE
            761039          JIM COVINGTON-AA0XJ
            761043/44       DICK BeGOLE-VE3WII
            761045          JEFF ALLEN-KB9YSJ
            761046/7        KEN SCHULZ-KB5UJY
            761048/9/10/11  LOU PERSONS-W4EYE
            761052/3/4/5    WALTER---W A 4 L T
            761056/7/8/9    BRUCE-AD7AO
            761060/61       DAVID-WB2DZH
            761062/63       HOWARD-N2PZK
            761064          DAVID-WZ6X
            761065          KEN-W9KB
            761066          TIM-K4IIS
            761067          JIM-WA4IYZ
            761068          LUCKY-K9LUK
            761069          MARK-WI1SON
            761070          WILLIAM-W9BEL
            761071/72       BILL-N8DSG
            761074/74       BILL-WB1GKG
            761075          STEVE-KO4QT
            761076          JIM-KF4GNJ
            761077          ROBERT-K2GSL   
            761078          SUE-KD5LKG
            761079/80       GEORGE-WA2AGR
 

Ok its not a birthday but it kinda is...happy anniversary to n8dmw and n8dmx yesterday....how did he manage to pull off field day?...i want to hear this story monday morning and by the way n8dmx-karen promises to tell n8dmw everything he needs to know before 7am or after 8:30 so ol chief sparkles-half mast wont go mia on us answering calls on 2m.

Today..yes today the 25th its happy birthday to susie----xyl of wa4lt....not many candles on that cake..here she is:

Tomorrow monday the 26th happy birthday to cotton-wb2ihw who i could actually hear this week for the first time in a long time...

On fabulous friday the 30th happy birthday to long time "22 crew" pal....k4eta-perk.......

We want to take this opportunity to welcome new members of the classroom net:

JUNE 2O    STAN-W4SSN
           DAVE-WB2ZTA

JUNE 21    LOUIS-WA1QEH
           BOB-K3RAP

JUNE 22    PAUL-KB0P

It took you five 26 years to find us but we are glad you did and wish each of you a long and lustrous classroom net experience.

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"just usually off" who has had a name change to "just usually on" since he gave up the ten-tec for a new icom... Thats stu-wa4juo ....came thru this week with a collection of unwanted tt books...tu tu tu stu!

Between stu and general scrounging we have managed to break the 2800 mark.....cmon boys and girls dig through those drawers and send those manuals.

Soon very soon......socialize at the "22 crew" "gather around the pool" saturday night the 9th then up early for a full day of listening and talking and learning...all day the 10th....this is the event we work for all year and you need to be there...

As all of you know that read "apple slices" carefully we clearly announced 2 weeks ago that there would be no edition last week.....in honor of fathers day and kb2dlx's birthday...
as for fathers day...nobody needs to see me in a new tie but now the birthday thing...thats a story...
ever find yourself in a situation that just makes no sense..does not add up...where you are totally confused for just a moment but it seems like hours....
imagine....you open the gates walk in the yard and expect to be going out for dinner but instead you see about 60 or so freinds and family yelling at you...take a look at the true face of:

C O N F U S I O N

Then all of a sudden it hits you..... The confusion passes and S-H-O-C-K sets in!

THIS WEEK AT THE CORE:

EVERYDAY FROM CREW HQ AS OF THIS MOMENT........

On the Plus side when the time comes take a short time span about th 23rd of june for a prayer that we make it : as I got lot of things need to do. hope to hear from a few good friends.
please be a friend and pass this note on.
NEIL/N8OM THE OLMAN

MAYOR OF NYC
1834 not!

Samuel Finley Breese Morse...THE FELLA THAT GAVE YOU THE CW POSITION ON YOUR RADIO RAN FOR MAYOR OF THE BIG APPLE ON THE NATIVIST TICKET IN 1834..BETCHA DINT KNOW THAT...HE ALSO LOST ONLY GETTING SOME 1,496 VOTES BUT AT LEAST HE TRIED...IN THE SAME TIME PERIOD HE TAUGHT PAINTING AT NYU AND FOR SURE BET YOU DINT KNOW THAT EITHER.

SADLY ON JUNE 18, 1872 HE WAS BURIED....AFTER DYING OF COURSE BUT GUESS WHERE????
B R O O K L Y N
TO HONOR THE PASSING OF SAM THE KINGS COUNTY REPEATER ASSOCIATION-KCRA-WILL HAVE A CEREMONY AT THE SITE IN GREENWOOD CEMETARY NEXT SUNDAY AND THEN A SPECIAL EVENT STATION...HERE IS THE ANNOUNCEMENT:

A brief memorial service and wreath lying will be held at the grave of Samuel Morse in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY at 10:30 AM. Afterwards, the KCRA will operate a Special Event Station from the cemetery beginning at 11:30 AM Eastern Time and continue until 3:00 PM Eastern Time.
The KCRA will be operating CW and Phone modes on the following bands / frequencies:

10 Meters: 28.150 CW

20 Meters: 14.305 USB

40 Meters: 7.250 LSB

40 Meters: 7.125 CW

80 Meters: 3.900 LSB

IF IT WERE NOT FOR THE FACT THAT IT IS THE DAY AFTER THE BABY'S BIRTHDAY (KEEP READING) AND FATHER'S DAY THE 22 CREW WOULD HAVE A CONTINGENT THERE...PERSONALLY I ALWAYS GOT YELLED AT FOR TRYING TO OPERATE FROM A CEMETARY..AT ABOUT 11 OR 12 YEARS OLD I REMEMBER GOING TO SEE THE GREAT GRANDPARENTS IN CYPRESS HILLS CEMETARY ON THE QUEENS BROOKLYN BORDER...LOTS OF HIGH SPOTS IN THAT CEMETARY AND WHILE IN THE MOBILE WITH THE PARENTS ON THE WAY IN MOTHER WOULD ALWAYS MAKE ME "SHUT THAT #$%^&* RADIO OFF THATS DISRESPECTFUL" AND SO ON...NEEDLESS TO SAY NOW A FEW YEARS LATER IT WOULD BE NICE TO CALL CQ FROM A GRAVEYARD AND GET AWAY WITH IT!

FIELD DAY 2006
TWO WEEKS FROM LATER TODAY IT WILL BE ALL OVER....THINKING OF JOINING US...RSVP TODAY....IC DAY NEWS IS NEXT AND IT NOTES HOW WE MADE AN EARLY SATURDAY MORNING RUN TO POB 1052, WELL ON THE WAY BACK WE STOPPED AT THE 22 CREW FD SITE DIRECTLY ACROSS FROM CREW HQ AND TOOK THIS PICTURE FROM INSIDE-ABOUT 45 DEGREES AT THE TIME-THE 22 CREWMOBILE WHILE WORKING: N8UA/N8DMW/KB2GBK AND LOTS MORE.....

JUST A LITTLE BIT TO THE RIGHT IN THIS PICTURE IS A PLACE WE ALL KNOW AND LOVE CALLED STEAMBOAT LANDING..WA4LT HAS BEEN THERE AND WHEN HE COMES BACK THIS SUMMER THERE IS A BOAT-NOTE THE NAME- WAITING FOR HIM:

SO CONSIDER BEING A "22 CREW" FIELD DAY PLAYER.


ICOM DAY 2006
35 IS THE NUMBER

WE HAD A WONDERFUL EARLY SATURDAY MORNING RIDE TO POB 1052 YESTERDAY THE 10TH AND GOT THE LATEST IC DAY ENTRIES AS PART OF THE MAIL...WITH THAT LETS WELCOME: JIM-KF4GNJ A RETURNING PLAYER, ROBERT-K2GSL & SUE-KD5LKG...ROBERT & SUE ARE NEW TO IC DAY AND ALSO TO THE CLUB ... FOR ALL THREE A GIANT "22 CREW" THANK YOU AND GOOD LUCK.

760914/15		RALPH FARIELLO-K2PF

761016			STU TYLER-WA4JUO

761017			MARK GROSSMAN-K2CON

761018  		ROGER SWINNEY-W8CNJ

761019/034		SAM NEAL-N5AF

761020  		CAL EPSTEIN-W9JAN

761021-30 		MORT BARDFIELD-W1UQ

761031 			RANDY DORMAN-KB3IFH

761032-3  		JIM FOSTER-NN7K

761035/36		ROLAND CRANE-W4MUR

761037			SAM PLESSINGER-W8GRP

761038			JOHN R DAVIS-WA5RHF

761041			RONALD E. MILLER-KB0TDA

761042			AIMEE R. STERLING-KB0TXA

761040			PHIL WHITEHOUSE-W1GEE

761039			JIM COVINGTON-AA0XJ

761043/44		DICK BeGOLE-VE3WII

761045			JEFF ALLEN-KB9YSJ

761046/7 		KEN SCHULZ-KB5UJY

761048/9/10/11		LOU PERSONS-W4EYE

761052/3/4/5   		WALTER---W A 4 L T

761056/7/8/9		BRUCE-AD7AO

761060/61   		DAVID-WB2DZH

761062/63   		HOWARD-N2PZK

761064   		DAVID-WZ6X

761065   		KEN-W9KB

761066   		TIM-K4IIS

761067			JIM-WA4IYZ

761068			LUCKY-K9LUK

761069			MARK-WI1SON

761070			WILLIAM-W9BEL

761071/72		BILL-N8DSG

761074/74		BILL-WB1GKG

761075			STEVE-KO4QT

761076			JIM-KF4GNJ

761077			ROBERT-K2GSL   

761078			SUE-KD5LKG

 

B I R T H D A Y S...
YES...WE GOT BIRTHDAYS...JUNE 19 IS THE DAY FOR DICK-VE3WII...THIS IS THE CHECKIN THAT BRINGS US NEWS FROM THE NORTH MOST MORNINGS..HAVE A GREAT BDAY DICK...JUO "JUST USUALLY OFF" BUT NOW HE GAVE UP THE TENNESSEE TRASH RADIO AND GOT A NEW ICOM SO HE NOW IS KNOWN AS "JUST USUALLY ON"..HAPPY BDAY TO STU-WA4JUO ON JUNE 21, WITCHY W2HLD-MIKEEE DOWN ON THE FAIRWAYS OF FAIRVIEW GETS A BDAY ON THE 23RD, BACK ON THE 12TH THE DAY BELONGS TO N9FUP, THE 17TH ITS A DOUBLE HEADER THE OLD GARBAGE TRUCK...K2OGT-BOB SPLITS THE DAY WITH PAUL-KG4UVU...AND THATS IT FOR BIRTHDAYS..WHOOPS SORRY ONE MORE...KB2DLX-JESSICA IS 30 ON THE 15TH....AND YOU MAY NOTICE THAT THERE ARE 2 WEEKS OF BIRTHDAYS INSTEAD OF JUST ONE...WELL BLAME IT ON JESSICA-KB2DLX....SEE HER BIRTHDAY MAY BE ON THE 15TH BUT THE SUPRISE PARTY IS ON THE 17TH...THATS RITE NEXT SATURDAY NITE LITTLE JESSICA GETS A SUPRISE 30TH BIRTHDAY PARTY..WATCH FOR A PICTURE OR PICTURES FROM THE PARTY...AND THE NEXT DAY BEING FATHERS DAY...WELL----NO WEEK 25 APPLE SLICES---AND BLAME IT ON DLX "DOCTORS LOVE XRAYS"!

THE HONOR ROLL
ALL HONOR ROLL MAIL IS IN THE USPS SYSTEM...OLD TIMERS IF YOU ARE UP FOR RENEWAL YOU SHOULD HAVE IT BY NOW...NEW PEOPLE IN THE LAST 6 MONTHS YOU WILL GET YOURS THIS WEEK...PICK A GIFT FILL OUT THE CARD WRITE THE CHECK AND SEND IT BACK...NO YOU NO US AND NO KIDDING....

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UP FOUR FROM LAST WEEK BUT NO THANKS TO ANY OF YOU...JUST DUMB LUCK AT GARAGE SALES....CMON FOLKS DIG THROGH THE DRAWERS AND SEND IN THOSE BOOKS...YOU CAN DO IT!

JULY 8 & 9-FOURTH ANNUAL TEACHERS MEETING....
THE SANDS OF TIME ARE RUNNING QUICKLY THROUGH THE HOUR GLAS...MAKE THE CALL TODAY....

703-386-2110 IS THE NUMBER FOR THE PLAZA ...MAKE THE CALL NOW!

DAYTON 2006
WE SAID IT ALREADY BUT WE WILL SAY IT AGAIN..2006 DAYTON WAS THE VERY BEST ATTENDED EVER FOR THE "22 CREW" IT WAS SO GOOD THAT SATURDAY NIGHT WE HAD SO MANY GUESTS THEY BROKE UP INTO TWO TABLES TO EAT....HERE IS TABLE ONE AND TABLE TWO...DO YOU SEE YOU? IF NOT PLAN ON 2007 NOW!

TABLE 1

TABLE 2

THIS WEEK AT THE CORE:
EVERYDAY FROM CREW HQ AS OF THIS MOMENT........


DING DONG!!!

THE OM
SOMEWHERE BACK AROUND 1986 A KA8 AND I CANT REMEMBER THE REST OF THE CALL STARTED CHECKING INTO THE CLASSROOM NET...HIS NAME WAS NEIL AND FROM THAT FIRST DAY ON HE BECAME A REGULAR ON THE CLASSROOM NET:

NEVER RIGHT IN 26 YEARS
EVER TALK TO SOMEONE ON THE RADIO AND GET A PICTURE IN YOUR MIND TO WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE? NEVER NOT ONCE EVER NOT EVER IN THE 26 YEARS OF THE "22 CREW" OR PRIOR TO THAT AS JUST A PLAIN OL HAM DID WE EVER GET IT CORRECT AND DAYTON 06 WAS NO EXCEPTION TO THE RULE...IN THE LAST YEAR WE HAD A NEW CHECK IN BY THE NAME OF CARL-W8CBS, CARL LIVES IN DAYTON AND TRIED TO HELP GET HAMVENTION INFO FOR US AND SO ON...ANYWAY...WITH A CALL LIKE W8CBS AND HIS VOICE AND HIS HELP WITH DARA WE HAD CARL PICTURED AS A VERY SENIOR CITIZEN ONCE AGAIN PROVING..WE NEVER GET IT RIGHT:

THATS W8CBS AT THE "22 CREW" TABLE IN THE SUNGLASSES, WHICH BEATS A RAINCOAT, WITH WALTER IN THE BACKGROUND.
ONE THING ABOUT DAYTON WHEN YOU GET THERE IT IS LIKE YOU WERE JUST THERE EVEN THO A YEAR HAS GONE BY AND I REMARKED TO RICK-WQ8Q ABOUT THIS PHENOMENOM...EVEN WITH FOLKS YOU HAVE NOT SEEN IN A COUPLE OF YEARS IT WORKS THE SAME WAY .. HERE IS RICK WHO WE JUST SAW LAST YEAR AND STEVE WHO ITS BEEN ABOUT 2 YEARS AND XYL LINDA WHO WE NEVER MET BEFORE BUT I AM SURE IT WILL WORK WITH HER ALSO:

NOW LOTS OF PEOPLE BRING SOMEONE WITH THEM LIKE STEVE AND LINDA HOWEVER MANY OF US DO DAYTON BY OURSELVES BUT THATS OVER IN ABOUT THE FIRST MINUTE OR SO....STILL OTHERS CHOOSE TO BRING THEIR LESS HUMAN FRIENDS AND RIGHT UP AT THE TOP OF THIS YEARS LESS THAN HUMAN BUT WE BROUGHT'M ANYWAY CONTINGENT IS THE NEW VOICE OF THE WB2GIN JOKE OF THE DAY AT 2/3 TIME, A WV SCHOOLTEACHER LONG TIME CHECK IN AND "22 CREW" PAL...MEET NZ8K VERN AND HIS PAL PIGGY:

AND YOU KNOW THERE IS MORE THAN ONE WAY TO CHECK IN TO THE CLASSROOM NET IN THE MORNING IF THE RADIO IS NOT WORKING OR CONDITIONS ARE DIFFERENT..USE THE "22 CREW" HOTLINE...JUST PICK UP THE FONE AND CALL 516-674-4072 AND COME IN TELEPHONICALLY LIKE THIS GUY:

MEET GENE-WB5KVE A FAITHFUL CHECK IN EACH MORNING IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER....
AND SPEAKING OF FAITHFUL...HERE IS A FAIRLY NEW NET CHECKIN BUT A REAL REGULAR...ALWAYS LOUD CLEAR AND READY TO RELAY...MEET "CHUCK THE CHECKIN----N8ZA" FROM .. U GUESSED IT...MICHIGAN...THE STATE WITH THE MOST CLASSROOM NET CHECKINS IN THE LAST 3 MONTHS:

WATCH FOR MORE FROM DAYTON NEXT WEEK...AND NOW ON WITH THE REST OF THE STORY:

FIELD DAY 2006
BOYS AND GIRLS FIELD DAY IS COMING UP REAL QUICK...WE HAVE A TEAM ASSEMBLED BUT MORE PLAYERS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME...WOULD YOU LIKE TO JOIN US AT CREW HQ FOR FD AND A BOAT RIDE AND OTHER SUPRISES...LET US KNOW NOW...AND YOU KNOW THERE ARE JUST SOME PICTURES THAT SAY IT SO MUCH BETTER THAN 1000'S OF WORDS...THE TRUE JOY OF FIELD DAY SET UP...THE REAL PLEASURE OF IT ALL....THE GREAT SATISFACTION WHEN THAT LAST WIRE IS FINALLY STRUNG .. THE HAPPINESS OF A THE HAPPY FIELD DAY HAM...NONE OTHER THAN MR LAFFS HIMSELF ON FIELD DAY 2005 ... KEN KW8Z:

AND WHEN THEY BRING BACK THE ADAM'S FAMILY WE WANT TO BE HIS AGENT!

ICOM DAY 2006
STILL 38
to go!

NOTHING CHANGED THIS WEEK...WITH FLEET WEEK IN FULL SWING AND EVERYDAY MANHATTAN TRAFFIC LIKE A SNOWSTORM NEW YEARS EVE ON STEROIDS WE DID NOT VENTURE TO POB 1052 BUT WILL DO IT THIS WEEK FOR SURE WHEN CALM COMES BACK TO THE VILLAGE.

            760914/15       RALPH FARIELLO-K2PF
            761016          STU TYLER-WA4JUO
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            761018          ROGER SWINNEY-W8CNJ
            761019/034      SAM NEAL-N5AF
            761020          CAL EPSTEIN-W9JAN
            761021-30       MORT BARDFIELD-W1UQ
            761031          RANDY DORMAN-KB3IFH
            761032-3        JIM FOSTER-NN7K
            761035/36       ROLAND CRANE-W4MUR
            761037          SAM PLESSINGER-W8GRP
            761038          JOHN R DAVIS-WA5RHF
            761041          RONALD E. MILLER-KB0TDA
            761042          AIMEE R. STERLING-KB0TXA
            761040          PHIL WHITEHOUSE-W1GEE
            761039          JIM COVINGTON-AA0XJ
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            761045          JEFF ALLEN-KB9YSJ
            761046/7        KEN SCHULZ-KB5UJY
            761048/9/10/11  LOU PERSONS-W4EYE
            761052/3/4/5    WALTER---W A 4 L T
            761056/7/8/9    BRUCE-AD7AO
            761060/61       DAVID-WB2DZH
            761062/63       HOWARD-N2PZK
            761064          DAVID-WZ6X
            761065          KEN-W9KB
            761066          TIM-K4IIS
            761067          JIM-WA4IYZ
            761068          LUCKY-K9LUK
            761069          MARK-WI1SON
            761070          WILLIAM-W9BEL
            761071/72       BILL-N8DSG

            761074/74        BILL-WB1GKG
            761075           STEVE-KO4QT

B I R T H D A Y S...
THUNDERING THURSDAY THE 8TH...MAKE SURE YOU ALL BRING YOUR CUPCAKES TO CLASS TO CELEBRATE THE BIRTHDAY OF OUR "22 CREW" PAL .. REGULAR CHECK IN AND HONOR ROLL MEMBER ... JIM-N8UA....HAPPY BIRTHDAY JIM........WE WILL BE RINGING THE BELL FOR YOU SO BE THERE ON TT!

THE HONOR ROLL
MAIL FOR THE HONOR ROLL IS STARTING TO GET OUT AND SHOULD BE COMPLETE BY NEXT WEEK...START WATCHING YOUR MAILBOX FOR A REALLY NICE LOOKING ENVELOPE!

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N2HUN, MARIO ... DID IT AGAIN THIS WEEK WITH 3 MORE WINNERS...THANKS MARIO...AND TO ALL THE REST READING THIS LETS DO THAT SUMMER CLEANUP TODAY AND SEND THOSE BOOKS OVER....N O W!

JULY 8 & 9-FOURTH ANNUAL TEACHERS MEETING....
SEE THE NORMAL LOOKING GUY ON THE RIGHT APPARENTLY GETTING ADVICE FROM A GREAT GRANDFATHER FIGURE:

THATS "DEAN" DAVE KE4W WHO WILL BE MAKING HIS RETURN TO LAS VEGAS WITH US THIS YEAR .. DAVE WILL BE A FEATURED SPEAKER AND HAS BEEN A HUGE HELP IN THIS EFFORT SINCE THE VERY FIRST NATIONAL MEETING .. .MAKE SURE YOU ARE WITH US THIS YEAR

703-386-2110 IS THE NUMBER FOR THE PLAZA ...MAKE THE CALL NOW!

THIS WEEK AT THE CORE:
AS OF THIS MOMENT IT LOOKS LIKE EVERYDAY WILL ORIGINATE FROM CREW HQ....STAY TUNED

DING DONG!!!

THE #1 NY HOLIDAY

THIS IS IT... THE VERY BEST IN CELEBRATIONS STARTS HERE THIS WEEKEND IN THE BIG APPLE...NO OTHER PLACE IN THE USA IS THERE A BETTER PLACE TO BE THAN RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW... IN RECOGNITION WE REPLACED OUR TRADITIONAL WTC PICTURE NORMALLY ABOVE WITH A GREAT SHOT OF THE BLUE ANGELS SOARING OVER JONES BEACH ON LONG ISLAND.... THIS IS FLEET WEEK HERE IN THE APPLE... THE CITY IS LOADED WITH SAILORS FROM ALL OVER... THE INTREPID AIRCRAFT CARRIER IS BURSTING WITH VISITORS AND THE 14 MILES OF NYC BEACHES ARE OFFICIALLY OPENED WITH STILL REALLY COLD WATER BUT LIFE GUARDS ON DUTY FROM 9AM TO 6PM CLEAR UP TO LABOR DAY.... TRAFFIC DELAYS, AIRPORT DELAYS AND EVERY OTHER KIND OF DELAY WILL BE THE ORDER OF THE DAY FOR THE ENTIRE WEEK... WE WILL NOT BE VISITING POB 1052 DURING ALL THIS SO IF YOU HAVE MAILED US ANYTHING DO NOT EXPECT A REPLY FOR A SOLID 7 DAYS..... HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY READERS!

IT WAS THE BEST OF TIMES

IT WAS THE WORST OF TIMES

DAYTON 2006, THE EVENT WE TALK ABOUT/PLAN FOR/GET READY FOR/LOAD FOR AND IN GENERAL AGONIZE OVER FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR IS NOW IN THE HAM RADIO HISTORY BOOKS....

FOR SURE...WITHOUT A DOUBT...POSITIVELY THIS WAS "THE BEST OF TIMES" FOR THE "22 CREW" AT DAYTON EVER IN THE HISTORY OF OUR CLUB AT DAYTON.....AS THE WORLD SHOULD KNOW BY NOW WE STARTED IN 1980 AND IT WAS NOT UNTIL ABOUT 1985 OR SO THAT WE STARTED COMING TO DAYTON...IN 1989 RICK-WQ8Q SIGNED ON:

THATS RICK IN BLUE ON THE LEFT....IN 89 WE GOT SPOTS 1336/1337/1338 AND WQ8Q HAS BEEN OUR DAYTON ORGANIZER EVER SINCE...HE BRINGS THE FOOD AND THE BEVERAGES...WATCHES THE STAND SO I CAN WANDER AND IN GENERAL MAKES THE ENTIRE OPERATION POSSIBLE...THIS MEANS A PRETTY GOOD FRAME OF REFERENCE....TO PARAPHRASE WQ8Q....IT HAS NEVER BEEN THIS GOOD FOR US IN ANY PAST YEAR...period! NEVER EVER DID WE HAVE THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO KNOW US STOP AT THE TABLE, NEVER DID WE EVER HAVE THE NUMBER OF STRANGERS THAT HEARD ABOUT US STOP AND EXPRESS INTEREST IN HAM RADIO IN EDUCATION...GRAND TOTAL FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY TOTALLY BLEW AWAY ANY OF THE PRIOR YEARS AND EVERY YEAR HAS, WE THOUGHT, ALWAYS BEEN BETTER THAN THE ONE BEFORE...FOR THE "22 CREW" AND EDUCOM...2006 DAYTON WAS THE BEST OF TIMES...



BUT THEN THERE IS THE FLIP SIDE...


FOR ANYONE THAT HAS BEEN A REGULAR LIKE US ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS ASK AND WE ARE SURE THEY WILL TELL YOU: THE CROWD, VENDORS & LOOKERS, WAS SO FAR OFF IT WAS PATHETIC...ACTUALLY IS WAS SCARY...FOR THE HAMFEST ITSELF...IT WAS THE WORST OF TIMES......ROWS OF EMPTY SPACES...CARS PARKED IN THE FLEA MARKET JUST FOR THE SAKE OF PARKING....FOOD LINES THAT WERE NOT OUTRAGEOUS AND LASTLY THE "BATHROOM BAROMETER"...NEVER A WAIT....NOT ONCE! STICK A FOR IN IT...DAYTON IS DONE!......maybe........

NOW YOU HAVE TO ASK WHY...AND SOME OF THE EASY ANSWERS: GAS PRICES, EBAY, COMPUTERS, THE GRAYING OF THE HAM POPULATION, LACK OF INTEREST, CELL PHONES....AND LOTS MORE...BUT WE HAVE ANOTHER FOR YOU TO THINK ABOUT...IS DARA SUICIDAL..DID THEY SHOOT THEMSELVES...FOLKS THIS IS THE PREMIER HAM SHOW IN THE USA...DID ANYONE GET MAIL PRIOR TO THE EVENT? DID THEY SEND OUT ANYTHING TO THE LONG TIME CUSTOMERS...DID THEY SEND OUT ANYTING TO ANYONE...NO! WHEN FINALLY IT GOT DOWN TO THE WIRE DID THEY ANSWER THEIR PHONE OR RETURN A FAX OR A CALL...NO AGAIN! IS THE BALLGAME OVER AND THEY KNOW IT AND WE DON'T? HONESTLY I DON'T KNOW...BUT SOMETHING IS ROTTEN IN DAYTON FOR SURE...EVEN THE MOTEL PEOPLE WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT THIS COMMENTED THAT THIS WAS THE FIRST YEAR THEY GOT NO INFO NO NOTHING AND IN FACT HAD NO IDEA WHAT WAS HAPPENING...THIS IS ALSO THE FIRST YEAR THAT YOU COULD OF GOTTEN A ROOM AT OUR PLACE JUST BY WALKING IN ON THURSDAY WITH NO RESERVATION...PLUS THEY TOLD US THAT THE PLACE WAS ALMOST FILLED UP BUT THE MAJORITY OF GUESTS WERE NOT HAMS OR HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE HAMVENTION...WHEN WE QUERIED DARA ON THIS AND TRUST ME WE TALKED TO EVERYONE FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE TOTEM POLE TO THE TOP THE ANSWER BASICALLY WAS "WELL WE ARE ALL VOLUNTEERS"...BOYS AND GIRLS..LISTEN THERE ARE TONS OF VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATIONS...THE "22 CREW" IS TOTALLY VOLUNTEER...IF WE EVER WERE RUDE OR NON-RESPONSIVE OR SIMPLY INEPT THE RADIO CLUB OF JHS 22 NYC INC WOULD NEVER OF LASTED TO YEAR 25 AND 22 WEEKS...YEAR ONE 1980 WOULD OF BEEN IT AND THAT WOULD OF BEEN JUST LUCK...AS LONG AS THERE IS A DAYTON WE WILL BE THERE...THE BIG QUESTION IS...HOW MUCH LONGER WILL THERE BE A DAYTON IF "THE WORST OF TIMES" ARE ALLOWED TO CONTINUE?

WAKE UP DARA...GET IT TOGETHER....GET THE MAIL OUT...PUMP UP THE VOLUME...YOU HAVE THE BALL...STILL... NOW RUN WITH IT AND LETS BRING DAYTON 2007 BACK TO THE PREMIER SHOW IT SHOULD BE.

AND BY THE WAY DON'T TELL ME HAMFESTS ARE DOWN...SURE MANY ARE BUT THE BIGGIES ARE NOT...JOIN US IN HUNTSVILLE IN AUGUST...AFTER 20 PLUS YEARS IT KEEPS GETTING BETTER AND DONT FORGET ORLANDO NEXT FEBRUARY .. BOTH HUNTSVILLE & ORLANDO ARE BIG TIME GROWING SHOWS..

NOW BACK TO THE POSITIVE----WE GOT PICTURES OF DAYTON 2006!

WOW DO WE HAVE PICTURES...FOR THE FIRST TIME IN DAYTON HISTORY LITERALLY HUNDREDS TO CHOOSE FROM...OBVIOUSLY IN THE FIRST "APPLE SLICES" WE CAN'T PRINT MUCH BUT UNTIL 2007 OR AT LEAST CLOSE WE SHOULD BE GOOD FOR AT LEAST ONE OR MORE DAYTON 2006 PICTURE A WEEK...WE WILL TRY TO STICK TO CHRONOLOGIAL ORDER...AND KEEPING WITH THAT LOOK AT THE FIRST GUY I SEE WHILE DESCENDING THE STAIRS AT THE "SUPER 8" ON THURSDAY THE 18TH....NONE OTHER THAN OL CHIEF HALF MAST SPARKLES HIMSELF...N8DMW:

JIM WAS THERE TO GREET US ON ARRIVAL OR CATCH US NOT SURE WHICH...
HERE HE IS AGAIN ON THE LEFT...THE LOVELY N8DMX CENTER AND THE MASTER MOBILE"ER RON-K4ZZ ON THE RIGHT....

THIS SHOT TAKEN THURSDAY NIGHT AT THE "PRACTICE FOR SATURDAY NIGHT" EYEBALL AT ALEX'S....K4ZZ NEVER WAS TO DAYTON BEFORE...HE PROBABLY WILL NOT AGREE WITH A LOT OF WHAT HAS BEEN SAID SINCE HAVING NO MEMORY AND THATS A GOOD THING....BUT AT LEAST THESE THREE KNOW WHO THEY ARE...AS OPPOSED TO THIS NEXT FELLA ....WHO AM I? WHERE AM I?

THATS "WITCHONE" ( AND IF YOU DONT KNOW WHY WE CALL HIM THAT STANDBY FOR MORE PICTURES) YEP W2HLD-MIKE HIMSELF AFTER HOURS ON THE PLANE MAKING HIS DAYTON ARRIVAL AT THE SUPER 8. BUT HE WOKE UP REAL FAST...AFTER A LITTLE REST WE CAUGHT HIM AND N8DMW MAKING THEIR WAY TO ALEX'S FOR THE THURSDAY NIGHT PRACTICE RUN.... NOW REMEMBER MIKEEE WAS BORN IN BROOKLYN NYC USA AND STARTED HIS HAM CAREER THERE EVEN THO HE HAS LIVED ALL OVER THE PLACE AND NOW IN TEXAS THIS PICTURE PROVES YOU CAN TAKE THE BOY OUT OF THE "APPLE" BUT YOU CAN'T TAKE THE "APPLE" OUT OF THE BOY...HERE IS W2HLD GIVING THE UNIVERSAL NYC GREETING TO ANOTHER NY'R AS WE SNAP HIS PICTURE..BY THE WAY WHEN YOU COME HERE THIS SAME GESTURE WORKS ON CAB DRIVERS, BUS DRIVERS, BIKERS AND ANYONE ELSE YOU WANT TO SAY HELLO TO IN TRUE BIG APPLE STYLE:

OK THATS IT FOR DAYTON PICTURES THIS WEEK YOU ARE JUST GOING TO HAVE TO GET YOUR APPLE SLICES WEEKLY FOR THE NEXT YEAR TO SEE ALL YOUR BEST PALS IN THE MOST EMBARRASING/EXCITING AND DIFFERENT POSES OF THEIR LIFE AND YEAH I WILL SKIP TO THE END AND SHOW YOU WHY WE CALL W2HLD "WITCHONE"...BUT BE ADVISED THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF PICTURES IN THE MIDDLE! HERESSSSS WITCHY:

ICOM DAY 2006
NOW 38
to go!

AT THE BOOTH IN DAYTON BILL-N8DSG SIGNED UP FOR 2, BILL-WB1GKG WHO YOU ALL MAY REMEMBER AS BEING A HUGE HELP TO THE HAMRADIOMANUALS EFFORT ALL THE WAY FROM MAINE WAS AT THE TABLE ALONG WITH HIS XYL AND SIGNED UP FOR TWO PLUS OUR VERY OLD AND DEAR PAL STEVE-KO4QuickTruck KO4QT IS IN FOR ONE...STEVE FOR YEARS AND YEARS WORKED OUR KIDS FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY ON 21.395 AND IT SURE WAS GOOD TO SEE HIM AND HIS XYL LINDA ONCE AGAIN AT DAYTON

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    761016              STU TYLER-WA4JUO
    761017              MARK GROSSMAN-K2CON
    761018              ROGER SWINNEY-W8CNJ
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    761020              CAL EPSTEIN-W9JAN
    761021-30           MORT BARDFIELD-W1UQ
    761031              RANDY DORMAN-KB3IFH
    761032-3            JIM FOSTER-NN7K
    761035/36           ROLAND CRANE-W4MUR
    761037              SAM PLESSINGER-W8GRP
    761038              JOHN R DAVIS-WA5RHF
    761041              RONALD E. MILLER-KB0TDA
    761042              AIMEE R. STERLING-KB0TXA
    761040              PHIL WHITEHOUSE-W1GEE 
    761039              JIM COVINGTON-AA0XJ 
    761043/44           DICK BeGOLE-VE3WII
    761045              JEFF ALLEN-KB9YSJ
    761046/7            KEN SCHULZ-KB5UJY
    761048/9/10/11      LOU PERSONS-W4EYE
    761052/3/4/5        WALTER---W A 4 L T
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    761062/63           HOWARD-N2PZK
    761064              DAVID-WZ6X
    761065              KEN-W9KB
    761066              TIM-K4IIS
    761067              JIM-WA4IYZ
    761068              LUCKY-K9LUK
    761069              MARK-WI1SON
    761070              WILLIAM-W9BEL
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    761074/74           BILL-WB1GKG
    761075              STEVE-KO4QT

B I R T H D A Y S...
YOWEEEEEE DO WE HAVE PARTIES THIS WEEK...GET THE FIRE EXTINGUISHER READY FIRST UP: MARK-K2CON ON THE 30TH...HAPPY BIRTHDAY .. MARK COULD SOON BE MAKING A RETURN TO THE CLASSROOM NET WITH THE MAG MOUNT WE GOT HIM AT DAYTON...LETS GO MARK! JUNE 1 AND IT IS "O" DAY AS IN KG4MLOoooooooooo WATCH FOR PICTURES OF THIS 22 CREW SUPERSTAR COMING UP IN DAYTON PICTURES....HAPPY BIRTHDAY mlOOOOOOO NOW TO JUNE 3 THESE TWO GUYS HAVE BEEN HUGE HELPS TO THE "22 CREW" SEE THE "APPLE SLICES" UR READING WELL SAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY ON JUNE 3 TO THE GUY THAT MAKES IT POSSIBLE...WD4DUG MIKE....AND ALSO ON THE SAME DAY KEITH-N8EB WHO HAS BEEN INSTRUMENTAL IN GETTING OUR ADS PUBLISHED IN VARIOUS NEWSLETTERS...KEITH HAVE A GREAT BIRTHDAY....
TO ALL OF YOU BIRTHDAY BOYS HAVE A TRULY GREAT DAY.

THE HONOR ROLL

SINCE 1980 THE "22 CREW" HAS BEEN SUPPORTED BY OUTSIDE DONATIONS... COMING UP IN THE NEXT 2 WEEKS GIVE OR TAKE HONOR ROLL LETTERS WILL BE GOING OUT...SOME WILL BE TO MEMBERS WISHING THEM A GREAT SUMMER AND BRINING THEM UP TO DATE ON WHAT WE ARE DOING, SOME WILL BE TO PRESENT MEMBERS ASKING THEM TO RENEW AND SOME WILL BE TO NEW PEOPLE ASKING THEM TO JOIN FOR THE FIRST TIME AND GET THEIR CREW CAREER STARTED. IT IS THE HONOR ROLL THAT MAKES ALL THIS POSSIBLE...IF YOU ARE A NEW PERSON AND ASKED TO JOIN WE HOPE YOU WILL...IF YOU ARE AN OL PAL WE HOPE YOU KEEP UP YOUR MEMBERSHIP.

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N2HUN, MARIO ... THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE MUCH NEEDED EICO.....BROADWAY KENNY B IN THE BACK ROW,,,K8FXE.. THANK YOU FOR THE GREAT MANUAL PACKAGE AT DAYTON....

WE ARE QUICKLY CLOSING ON 2,800....HELP US GET TO 3,000...CHECK THE DRAWERS AND FILES, WHAT YOU DON'T WANT WE NEED...SEND THEM OVER.

WE WANT TO TAKE YOU
ON A SEA CRUISE!

BEFORE YOU KNOW IT YOU WILL BE READING THE CHRISTMAS APPLE SLICES EDITION THEN NEW YEARS AND HERE WE ARE AT 2007. TIME FOR 2007 PLANNING IS NOW...WE WANT TO ADD ANOTHER EVENT TO THE "22 CREW 2007 CLALANDAR". JOIN US ON AN EDUCOM CRUISE.....BERT-W4SNT IS JUST BACK FROM A CRUISE ON THE CARNIVAL LINES AND IS RAVING ABOUT IT...I AGREE...A CRUISE IS WONDERFUL AND WHAT BETTER WAY TO GO THAN WITH A WHOLE FLOCK OF FOLKS WHO ARE ALREADY YOUR BEST FRIENDS .. TRULY THE FINAST IN ALL OF HAMDOM...ALL PALS AND OLD PALS TO BOOT....IF YOU HAVE ANY INTEREST IN A "22 CREW 2007 CRUISE" LET US KNOW ...CONTACT BURT-W4SNT AT BEHAM98@AOL.COM OR CONTACT CREW HQ...WHEN WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO? WHERE WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO? HOW LONG COULD YOU GO FOR ...? ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS AND CONTACT BURT OR US T O D A Y::::

ALSO A NOTE FROM BURT-W4SNT:

Joeee; Here are a couple of pictures from the cruise with myself and
  Dr.Bob Lyons K4FXP and wives. We were on the Carnival Elation.
        We stoped at 4 islands St Thomas-Puerto Rico- the last was a new
  stop at the Turks & Caicos , Carnival built 
  a dock Pool concession area beach for swiming spent $55,000,000.
              hope this is ok Joee on the pictures

NOTE THE GREAT HAT ON W4SNT

CANNOT YOU JUST SEE URSELF THERE IN THE DEPTHS OF 2007 WINTER OR OTHER ASSORTED ROTTEN WX....I CAN....PLEASE CONTACT BURT OR US TODAY!

JULY 8 & 9-FOURTH ANNUAL TEACHERS MEETING....

DID YOU LIKE BEING WITH US AT DAYTON? WANT A LOT MORE AND BETTER OF THE SAME....DO THE FOLLOWING:

703-386-2110 IS THE NUMBER FOR THE PLAZA ...MAKE THE CALL NOW!

I WILL BE ARRIVING ON WEDNESDAY THE 5TH...WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY I WILL BE AT MANDALAY BAY AND MOVING TO THE PLAZA ON FRIDAY...LEAVING ON MONDAY....22 CREW CELL PHONE 516 658 6947 WILL BE ON THROUGHOUT...DONT MISS THIS EVENT. WE HAVE SPEAKERS LINED UP AND NEW TEACHERS/STUDENTS PLUS LOTS OF GUESTS...THIS IS A LANDMARK EVENT IN HAM RADIO AND EDUCATION...BE THERE.

THIS WEEK AT THE CORE:

THERE REALLY IS NO ALPHA IN THE CREWMOBILE...!....CREWMOBILE HOPES TO BE ON THE ROAD TO VIRGINIA TUESDAY MORN HOWEVER AT THIS WRITING ALL PLANS ARE TENTATIVE.....STAY TUNED. it really is a good picture tho!

DING DONG!!!

IN OUR 35,000 GIVE OR TAKE LOGBOOK ENTRIES MANY OF THOSE FOLKS WERE 15M CONTACTS.  BY THE WAY THAT IS 35,000 INDIVIDUAL STATIONS.  LOTS OF THEM WERE WEST COASTERS...AND WE GOT TO TALK ABOUT EVERYTHNG WEST...ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR SUBJECTS ...LAUGHLIN...FOR YEARS UPON YEARS IN THE 80'S AND INTO THE EARLY 90'S WE HEARD FROM COUNTLESS HAMS TALKING ABOUT HOW IT IS JUST THE GREATEST TOWN..MUCH BETTER THAN VEGAS...MORE RELAXED .. EASIER TO GET AROUND AND ON AND ON ...FINALLY SOMETIME IN THE MID 90'S WE FINALLY GOT THERE AND FOUND OUT ALL THOSE HAMMY'S SURE WERE CORRECT...IT IS A GREAT TOWN..CLOSE TO VEGAS BUT LOTS DIFFERENT AND REALLY A DESTINATION ALL BY ITSELF..AND GUESS WHO FOUND THAT OUT BETTER THAN ANYONE THIS WEEK...NONE OTHER THAN OUR OL PAL FROM THE EARLIEST DAYS OF 15M AND THE "22 CREW"...GEORGE..N6VNI...YOU REMEMBER GEORGE...HE IS THE POSTER BOY FOR THE "22 CREW" GOLF SHIRT:

THATS GEORGE AND KATY COURIC...YEAH THE TV LADY....FROM THE TODAY SHOW....OK NOW TRY TO CONCENTRATE ON GEORGE..I KNOW ITS TUFF BUT PAY ATTENTION...THIS PAST WEEK GEORGE AND THE XYL TOOK A TRIP TO LAUGHLIN....PUT A FEW DOLLARS IN A NON-DESCRIPT SLOT MACHINE AND:

SADLY WHEN THEY GAVE HIM THE $17,000 CHECK HE WAS NOT WEARING THE CORRECT SHIRT..BUT WE FORGIVE HIM...CONGRATS N6VNI...IT SURE IS NICE TO KNOW A WINNER AND GUESS WHAT..NOT ONLY GEORGE IS A WINNER...OUR VERY OWN:

BELL RINGER HIMSELF...MIKEY-W2HLD... IS A WINNER....NOT EXACTLY A WINNER LIKE N6VNI BUT NEVERTHELESS A WINNER .. OLE "WITCHONE" WON THE DAYTON PARKING PASS LOTTERY

I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE THAT SENT IN AN ENTRY. THE COMPETITION WAS TRULY FIERCE BUT ONLY A FEW OF YOU PAID ATTENTION...PLAYING ONE HANDED "SNAKE" ON A NOKIA CELL PHONE IS NOT GOING TO GET YOU A VERY HIGH SCORE

"HLD" GUESSED 375...THE CORRECT NUMBER AS YOU CAN SEE WAS 387 PUTTING HIM CLOSEST ...HONORABLE MENTION GOES TO: N8UA WITH 445 ON THE HIGH SIDE AND AG4FK WITH 319 ON THE LOW SIDE...ONE MORE LOSER SHOULD BE NOTED...NOT ONLY DID HE LOSE HE WAS SO FAR OUT WE CANT FIND A BOOBY ENOUGH BOOBY PRIZE TO GIVE HIM...WITH THE TOTALLY WRONG NUMBER OF 967...THE ONE THE ONLY:
BIG CHIEF SPARKLES

N 8 D M W
AND WHILE WE ARE AT IT THIS CONTEST NEVER COULD OF WORKED WITHOUT THE HELP OF:

SPECIAL THANKS TO WALTER-WA4LT FOR READING THE WINNING NUMBER ON FABULOUS FRIDAY THE 12TH AT 1/3 TIME.......SO FOR ALL YOU LOSERS DON'T FORGET TO JOIN US THURSDAY NIGHT AT ALEX'S FOR THE WARM UP PARTY AND THE PARKING PASS PRSENTATION.
THEN THE NEXT DAY BRIGHT AND EARLY WE WILL BE WAITING FOR YOU AT

OUT THERE IN THE FLEA CIRCUS. IF AT ANY TIME YOU WANT TO CONTACT US....USE A FONE AND CALL 516-658-6947...WE WILL NOT BE MONITORING ANYTHING BUT THAT THROUGHOUT THE DAYS OF DAYTON.

ICOM DAY 2006
S T I L L maybe 43 to go!

NORMALLY WE GET THE MAIL AT POB 1052 JUST BEFORE GOING TO PRESS BUT THAT WAS NOT POSSIBLE THIS WEEK SO THE LIST/NUMBER REMAINS THE SAME:

760914/15       RALPH FARIELLO-K2PF

761016          STU TYLER-WA4JUO

761017          MARK GROSSMAN-K2CON

761018          ROGER SWINNEY-W8CNJ

761019/034      SAM NEAL-N5AF

761020          CAL EPSTEIN-W9JAN

761021-30       MORT BARDFIELD-W1UQ

761031          RANDY DORMAN-KB3IFH

761032-3        JIM FOSTER-NN7K

761035/36       ROLAND CRANE-W4MUR

761037          SAM PLESSINGER-W8GRP

761038          JOHN R DAVIS-WA5RHF

761041          RONALD E. MILLER-KB0TDA

761042          AIMEE R. STERLING-KB0TXA

761040          PHIL WHITEHOUSE-W1GEE

761039          JIM COVINGTON-AA0XJ

761043/44       DICK BeGOLE-VE3WII

761045          JEFF ALLEN-KB9YSJ

761046/7        KEN SCHULZ-KB5UJY

761048/9/10/11  LOU PERSONS-W4EYE

761052/3/4/5    WALTER---W A 4 L T

761056/7/8/9    BRUCE-AD7AO

761060/61       DAVID-WB2DZH

761062/63       HOWARD-N2PZK

761064          DAVID-WZ6X

761065          KEN-W9KB

761066          TIM-K4IIS

761067          JIM-WA4IYZ

761068          LUCKY-K9LUK

761069          MARK-WI1SON

761070          WILLIAM-W9BEL

*****NOT A BIRTHDAY BUT DESERVES A MENTION...HONOR ROLL MEMBER: CAL-W4JAN CELEBRATED HIS 65TH YEAR IN HAM RADIO THIS PAST WEEK....I THINK HE SHOULD WRITE A BOOK....OR AT LEAST AN "APPLE SLICES" ARTICLE WALKING US ALL DOWN MEMORY LANE.
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WHEN WE GO TO DAYTON WE CANNOT BE EVERYWHERE..IN FACT WE USUALLY GO NOWHERE EXCEPT THE BOOTH...THATS WHY WE ARE COUNTING ON YOU TO BE OUR MANUAL SCOUTS....WE NEED ALL OF YOU AS YOU PROWL THE AISLES TO BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR PEOPLE SELLING MANUALS. D O N O T LOOK FOR DEALERS JUST AVERAGE GUYS WITH A BOX OF BOOKS...WHEN YOU FIND ONE CALL US ON THE CELL 516 658 6947 AND WE WILL COME TO WHEREVER YOU ARE.

JULY 8 & 9-FOURTH ANNUAL TEACHERS MEETING....

THATS THE FIRST SIGN YOU SEE WHEN DRIVING IN...JUST AHEAD ON THE LEFT IS MANDALAY BAY...YOU KEEP GOING STRAIGHT UP LAS VEGAS BLVD TILL YOU HIT MAIN STREET HANG A LEFT PARK FOR FREE AT THE PLAZA AND COME TO THE 4TH ANNUAL RC OF JHS 22 TEACHERS MEETING...YOU NEED NOT BE A TEACHER...ALL YOU NEED IS AN INTEREST IN KIDS/HAM RADIO/EDUCATION AND THE FUTURE OF ALL THAT. PLUS A DESIRE TO HAVE A GOOD TIME AND MEET SOME REALLY NICE PEOPLE WILL HELP ALSO.

703-386-2110 IS THE NUMBER FOR THE PLAZA ...MAKE THE CALL NOW!
THIS WEEK AT THE CORE:

MONDAY AND TUESDAY SHOULD BE FROM CREW HQ...WEDNESDAY WE LEAVE FOR MORGANTOWN WV ... AFTER OUR MEETING THERE IS CONCLUDED WE WILL HEAD TO DAYTON STAYING OVER SOMEPLACE ALONG THE WAY AND ARRIVING THE SUPER 8 SOMETIME EARLY THURSDAY AND WAITING FOR ALL THE REST OF YOU TO GET THERE. YES----WE WILL "CAMP OUT" TO QUOTE THE COUNTY HUNTERS OF LAST YEAR..ON 7.238 MORNING NOON AND NIGHT SO CALL WHEN YOU CAN....AND JUST TO MAKE IT EASIER FOR YOU TO HEAR US WHILE ON THE ROAD THE "22 CREWMOBILE" HAS BEEN UPGRADED FOR THIS TRIP...WE NOW CAN OPERATE CW AND OUR POWER LEVEL HAS BEEN INCREASED:

ALONG WITH THE NEW BENCHER PADDLE WE ADDED AN ALPHA 87A NO TUNE AMP....WAIT TILL YOU SEE THE TRAILER THAT IS CARRYING THE BATTERIES! SADLY NO ONE CAN SIT UP FRONT WITH US ANYMORE!

DING DONG!!!