tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74815583335078421932024-03-13T19:55:34.198-04:00Computer museum, Hobbyist, Computers, Microcomputers, and Amateur Radio Station N4USAComputer Museum & Amateur Radio Station N4USA - Chantilly Farm - Tiny Homes - tiny houses - Information about computer collecting and the people who were pioneers in the Microcomputer revolution - Information about the Bugbook Historical Microcomputer Collection, N4USA and author of this blog David Larsen -KK4WW.David Larsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15992035338072848594noreply@blogger.comBlogger207125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7481558333507842193.post-60555647449824585042023-07-23T17:48:00.001-04:002023-07-23T17:48:25.262-04:00How to Cross Band Repeat - Ham Radio using the Yeasu 8800<div style="text-align: center;">
Cross Band Repeater many uses - Easy </div>
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Here are quick start instructions to set up the Yeasue FT-8800FT or FT8900 use as Cross Band Repeater.<br />
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I am using a Yeasue FT-8800R in my operation. Please note there are many Dual Band UHF/VHF radios that are designed to operate in Cross Band Repeater mode.<br />
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<i><b>You may need a little help with your Yeasue - Manuals below if needed for set up for your specific frequencies.</b> </i><br />
Full manual for FT-8800R <a href="https://www.manualslib.com/manual/339749/Yaesu-Ft-8800r.html" target="_blank">"CLICK"</a><br />
Full manual for FT-8900R <a href="https://www.manualslib.com/manual/339751/yaesu-Ft-8900r.html" target="_blank">"CLICK"</a><br />
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1. Set up your radio to the frequencies needed for your specific installation . In my installation I am using a <a href="http://hamuniverse.com/simplexoperating.html" target="_blank">simplex frequency</a> of 443.00Mhz for the talkie side at the farm. Set the squelch so the background noise is silenced.<br />
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The linking frequency is set our Local Club Repeater Frequency to receive on 147.210Mhz and transmit on 147.810Mhz - that is a positive offset of 0.600Mhz and a tone of 114.8hz. The linking frequencies to the Local Club Repeater are determined by the local Club Repeater requirements - we have no control over these frequencies.<br />
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<i>Needed information for Farm simplex radio's.</i><br />
The simplex frequency I am using on my farm talkies is my choice. You should check the suggested band use frequencies that are in the <a href="https://i.pinimg.com/736x/56/ee/c3/56eec33a0292d88f55d46c02c49d20e8--doomsday-preppers-budget-planner.jpg" target="_blank">band plan for repeater</a> use. I am using UHF simplex and the band plan for UHF repeaters is 442Mhz to 445Mhz. I choose to use 443Mhz.<br />
<i><br /></i><i>You should keep these things in mind when setting your <a href="http://hamuniverse.com/simplexoperating.html" target="_blank">simplex frequency</a>. </i><br />
1. Check to be sure you simplex frequency is not the same as any local repeater<a href="https://forums.qrz.com/index.php?threads/repeater-offset-and-input-output-freqs.28398/" target="_blank"> input or output frequency</a>. If you overlap a local repeater frequency you may cause interference to the users of that repeater - and have some unhappy hams. This would be specially bad if you were interfering with the emergency use of the repeater.<br />
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2. Press the (SET) key to enter the set mode.<br />
3. Rotate the "Main" band DIAL knob to select menu #45 on FT-8800R and on the FT-8900R #44 (X-RPT) . See photo to left.<br />
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4. Press the "Main" band DIAL knob momentarily, "XSTART" will appear on the display. See photo to left.<br />
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5. Press the "Main" band DIAL knob again to active the Cross Band operation. See photo to left to operate. The microphone will not be active and the radio is now controlled by the channel transmitting. The operation is outside of local radio control however ----<br />
6.To exit the Cross Band mode, Press the (SET) key.<br />
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This may seem a little complex however once you do this you will find it very easy and fast to make operational.<br />
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Cross Band Repeaters have many uses to enhance uhf/vhf communications by extending the range of HT's and Mobile radios. I will talk about several of the uses and first how the individual amateur radio operator can take advantage of this awesome technique.<br />
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I will use one of my own applications to demonstrate how useful and easy it is to implement.<br />
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I needed to be able to access the <a href="https://www.arrl.org/files/file/Technology/tis/info/pdf/repeater1.pdf" target="_blank">local club repeater </a>from any location on my farm with a handheld talkie. The talkie does fine from the hill tops into the local club repeater but no connection from some of valleys or low areas.<br />
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The Cross Band Repeater on the farm with full size dual band antenna can easily work the club Repeater and a talkie on the farm only needs to transmit less then 1/2 mile in simplex mode to the Cross Band - easy for the talkie. Here is the basic operation - the talkie on UHF communicates with the Cross Band in simplex mode - that is transmitting and receiving on the same UHF frequency. The Cross Band repeats the talkie simplex frequency audio on the VHF Local Club Repeater frequencies - VHF link to the Club Repeater is about 7 miles.<br />
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The need for this application was to help with a bicycle event of several hundred riders starting from the farm and doing a 100 mile ride and ending up back at the farm. The farm is the hub and control location for the entire ride. Using ham radio to make sure all the bikers make it back and do not end up in the ditch somewhere along the route. The plan is to have ham radio stations at about 5 locations along the route and making sure all riders passed there check point. The five ham radio stations at the check points need to communicate with each other and the farm control locations. Using the <a href="https://www.arrl.org/files/file/Technology/tis/info/pdf/repeater1.pdf" target="_blank">Local Club Repeater </a>and Cross Band Repeater at the farm made this possible. The ham radio stations at the 5 check points are mobile units and running 50 watts or more making it possible for them to reach farm talkies via the Local Club Repeater transmitting to the Cross Band Repeater located on the farm. If the mobile units have a problem reaching the Club Repeater they can use antennas with more gain.<br />
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I am using a Yeasu FT-8800R for my application - there are many UHF/VHF radios that can do Cross Band operation.<br />
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I will use a Yeasue FT-8800R in my operation. Please note there are many UHF/VHF radios that designed to operate Cross Band.<br />
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1. Set up your radio to the frequencies needed for your specific installation . In my installation I am using a <a href="http://hamuniverse.com/simplexoperating.html" target="_blank">simplex frequency</a> of 443.00Mhz for the talkie side at the farm.<br />
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The linking frequency is set the Club Repeater Frequency to receive on 147.210Mhz and transmit on 147.810Mhz - that is a positive offset of 0.600Mhz and a tone of 114.8hz. The linking frequencies to the Club Repeater are determined by the Club Repeater requirements - we have no control over these frequencies.<br />
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The simplex frequency I am using on my farm talkies is my choice. You should check the suggested band use frequencies that are in the <a href="https://i.pinimg.com/736x/56/ee/c3/56eec33a0292d88f55d46c02c49d20e8--doomsday-preppers-budget-planner.jpg" target="_blank">band plan for repeater</a> use. I am using UHF simplex and the band plan for UHF repeaters is 442Mhz to 445Mhz. I choose to use 443Mhz.<br />
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<i>You should keep these things in mind when setting your <a href="http://hamuniverse.com/simplexoperating.html" target="_blank">simplex frequency</a>. </i><br />
1. Check to be sure you simplex frequency is not the same as any local repeater<a href="https://forums.qrz.com/index.php?threads/repeater-offset-and-input-output-freqs.28398/" target="_blank"> input or output frequency</a>. If you overlap a local repeater frequency you may cause interference to the users of that repeater - and have some unhappy hams. This would be specially bad if you were interfering with the emergency use of the repeater.<br />
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1. At home we use a talky on 440430 communicating with the home crossband - we can operate into the home crossband for several miles and talk to the farm with our home talkie.<br />
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Information and News about Historical Computers, People, Events & Computer Museums </div>David Larsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15992035338072848594noreply@blogger.com0Floyd, VA 24091, USA36.9112443 -80.320050236.8985483 -80.34022019999999 36.9239403 -80.2998802tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7481558333507842193.post-78831203227418900982023-06-25T12:17:00.498-04:002023-07-23T17:31:12.371-04:001st FAIRS Ukraine/Soviet Union Visit - October 1990<p> </p><p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">DAVID & GAYNELL LARSEN'S 1ST FAIRS </span></p><p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;">UKRAINE/SOVIET UNION VISIT</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">September-October 1990</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;">Gaynell's Journal from the trip</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"> </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;">It's 6:05PM US time, but 2:05AM in Russia (part of Soviet Union at that time). I've just changed my watch and I'm really beginning to feel as though we're "on the way" - we've known for 3 months that the trip was on, but until now it hasn't sunk in!!! </span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Today has been
wonderful. My Mom and Dad took us to Roanoke to the airport. Our
flight was right on time. The weather today has been perfect. It was
about 60 degrees when we left home at 9:30 AM. Mom Larsen and Thelma
were there to see us off</span><span style="font-size: medium;">!</span></p><p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Click on Photos to enlarge -</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOdZkk-CdQ1IT8rbn8q8ubu2yy-qyT8xqpSaEHFMLOMRgmuz_Xc7yo_RzCqHrmnDTcv3BN5DgDxOlfH3B66rJ8iDWxeZfKybQ8NbOJVinDjTgnXDJPSd3Xn0D6V22nB48r204imskS4XuWCZdHWa4ssja4tyZAslqNxEOFdk9uJEhCaBn9DF6PynuJw6o/s2436/20230621_192133.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2131" data-original-width="2436" height="119" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOdZkk-CdQ1IT8rbn8q8ubu2yy-qyT8xqpSaEHFMLOMRgmuz_Xc7yo_RzCqHrmnDTcv3BN5DgDxOlfH3B66rJ8iDWxeZfKybQ8NbOJVinDjTgnXDJPSd3Xn0D6V22nB48r204imskS4XuWCZdHWa4ssja4tyZAslqNxEOFdk9uJEhCaBn9DF6PynuJw6o/w137-h119/20230621_192133.jpg" width="137" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ready to leave home <br />all 10 bags.<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"> The flight
left Roanoke at 11:40 AM and we arrived at BWI on schedule. We were
met there by Dave Jr. He got us down to the gate where our flight
left for JFK. At JFK we had something to eat – boarding began
about an hour before we departed – the plane is great – an
upstairs deck and 10 seats across here in our compartment.</span><p></p>
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<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"> We're in line
– just 3 planes ahead of us – maybe 20 minutes before take off.
The plane isn't crowded at all – in fact, we're going to have
plenty of room to stretch out to sleep – we'll probably need it
tomorrow – or today – in Russia. We're OFF – the skyline of
Manhatten is beautiful – we're up! We're to arrive in Moscow at
10:30 AM – should be plenty of time for a good night's sleep!!!!</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">SUNDAY AM:
Yesterday, Saturday was a wonderful day – we were of course on the
train – having gotten in the night before in Moscow. The train
ride was really very nice except for the restrooms. They had a lot to
be desired. On the train ride, we met a friend of Victor's, whose
name was also Victor (Golutvin). He's a real computer expert here in
Lvov and we enjoyed very much talking with him – he spoke very
little English and by the time the train got to Lvov, he was doing
quite well.</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">Our breakfast
on the train consisted of apples – some peanut butter crackers we
had with us and a cup of hot tea. Also from our visit in Moscow,
Ludmila had packed us a few things that were left from dinner Friday
night – cold meat, apple tart and a cake with cream filling.
Really, very good! Dave and the 2 Victors had a lot of time to do
computer talk – I really got caught up on my sleep so I don't have
jet lag. I can't remember what day it is – we lost 8 hours in our
trip!</span></p>
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Lvov and were met at the train station by Victor's wife Helen, his
daughter Julia, his father Vlad and 4 ham radio operators who helped
with our luggage. One guy was a taxi driver so we all piled into his
car and he brought us to our hotel. The rooms are very large and
it's very nice – we have 3 rooms and a bath – it's much larger
than Victor and Helen's whole apartment. They share the apartment
with Helen's mother </span><span style="font-size: large;">who we'll meet
today.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;"><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">After putting
our luggage away we had dinner with Victor and Helen here at the
hotel. The meal was good – red cabbage salad, which tasted as if
it had some meat broth mixed in, <br />sprinkled with cracker crumbs and
some (I think) sour plums on it. The meat was a cutlet of some
description fried in an egg batter – pretty good – some American
French Fries and some beet and carrot relishes – sliced cold bread
and coffee. This was Helen's first time to eat in this restaurant
and only Victor's second. They mentioned that at home they ate
whatever was available – not always very much!</div></span></div><p></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuUSvIGeRwlDN_F7_OesxvSLaU5CMKIGNIU6C1Q2YXpS7REmECD6Lf37YMVlWxedbFpvxnxTODM2eWqHYwA-R6MyLd4EBlEi_eaw9p40jz_XKvlPymlWDcqC7kzNP3ZxNq4nzbbK2XtrHtI-dSINOBbVS9YMJU5TKIElPyxUeGpz3G77Ikuxq1qefBNOE/s2966/20230621_192243.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2106" data-original-width="2966" height="142" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuUSvIGeRwlDN_F7_OesxvSLaU5CMKIGNIU6C1Q2YXpS7REmECD6Lf37YMVlWxedbFpvxnxTODM2eWqHYwA-R6MyLd4EBlEi_eaw9p40jz_XKvlPymlWDcqC7kzNP3ZxNq4nzbbK2XtrHtI-dSINOBbVS9YMJU5TKIElPyxUeGpz3G77Ikuxq1qefBNOE/w200-h142/20230621_192243.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">After dinner, one of Victor's ham friends Tom came to pick us all up for our trip
to Victor's Dad's apt. It was on the 4<sup>th</sup></span><span style="font-size: large;"> or 5</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: large;">
floor and of course you walked up many curving – concrete steps to
get there. It was 3 rooms and in the kitchen was the ham shack.
They all waited anxiously thru tea for Dave to open the computer!!!!</span><p></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">We gave Julia
her Barbie Doll with long blonde hair and she was thrilled! She spent
all night carrying it around and combing her hair. Victor nor his
father have a car, they walk everywhere or ride the train/tram. I'm
sure it was well over 2 miles back to the hotel at 10:30 PM. They
have no problem with walking at night – there seems to be very
little fear of being out – the street had a few street lights, not
many.</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">Back at Vlad's
before we left, the excitement was very great about the computer –
the very first Amtor PC station in the Ukraine. Vlad,</span></p><p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5S6QPTvPc35Ew5HJBym5B9bFhNiWWXGcCb8T8jqPeI6VdQI8rUjTUz83BU20wkr7M8chx8iQ8fuaasDYakdQ6Gp_kpRj3rpCwCKYOTZhbivgHgUvgTRbHH7Yrbsr1wzlXXQhURLTly7Kr0hNOg3xNVuj-uE1L4eGHmYR49sYnfZLR6n9liYwlpgYqqbI/s2947/20230621_192251.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2351" data-original-width="2947" height="137" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5S6QPTvPc35Ew5HJBym5B9bFhNiWWXGcCb8T8jqPeI6VdQI8rUjTUz83BU20wkr7M8chx8iQ8fuaasDYakdQ6Gp_kpRj3rpCwCKYOTZhbivgHgUvgTRbHH7Yrbsr1wzlXXQhURLTly7Kr0hNOg3xNVuj-uE1L4eGHmYR49sYnfZLR6n9liYwlpgYqqbI/w172-h137/20230621_192251.jpg" width="172" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />Victor, Helen,
Tom and Julia helped Dave open it up – better than our Christmas.
Dave gave Helen a package to open and her eyes really looked excited
– it was a handi-talkie and I could see tears in her eyes. She said
with excitement that she'd never held such in her hands. I've never
seen such excitement. She's a real avid ham – just won 1</span><sup>st</sup><span style="font-size: large;">
place in a DXpedition in Bulgaria - </span><span style="font-size: large;">The night was
wonderful – really makes you feel good to see such happiness.</span><p></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">It's hard to
believe the life over here – as we were riding along on the train –
everywhere it reminded you of the 1930's – 40's. No new buildings
anywhere. Everything in the country was in full color for autumn.
Really beautiful – the land was very flat from Moscow until we got
almost to Lvov. Then a few hills. The hotel we stayed in is for
tourist only. It's old, but really quite nice. We slept very well –
the beds were very different – very unusual compared to ours at
home. I nearly died laughing at Dave – part of our clothes were in
the </span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic7rrrMZt1sKghhWUJ76uYDhZ4rNfJN8w3gaL9yonfXaJjVugufeF4vcvpgUECFwWMEujpx7vKRNi89np6eRdpMLBCiwwf7yQz7JBxB2yvo8wI13TTsqeNRIqulmpG8CGBvy3VJShaDPTqsdx3MmOwtx2KjgrHxHRhbfRhaardB-CyCQJYLhP1_rq1Lls/s2527/20230621_192400.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2363" data-original-width="2527" height="161" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic7rrrMZt1sKghhWUJ76uYDhZ4rNfJN8w3gaL9yonfXaJjVugufeF4vcvpgUECFwWMEujpx7vKRNi89np6eRdpMLBCiwwf7yQz7JBxB2yvo8wI13TTsqeNRIqulmpG8CGBvy3VJShaDPTqsdx3MmOwtx2KjgrHxHRhbfRhaardB-CyCQJYLhP1_rq1Lls/w172-h161/20230621_192400.jpg" width="172" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pic of Vlad's antenna <br />on his 5th floor <br />apt.</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><br />computer suitcase which we left at Vlad's apt – we didn't have
any heat, so while he was going through our bags and getting his
teaching things straight – I went in to take a bath – Victor and
Helen only have water from 6 to 9 AM and 6 to 9PM – no other time.
I climbed up in the tub and with no shower curtain, I </span><span style="font-size: large;">had to “squat”
down in the tub to use the hand held shower head – I couldn't sit
down because the tub was ice cold – Dave was so funny – kneeling
down in the tub with me spraying him – I was standing outside of
the tub shivering!! He didn't have any “long-johns” so he slept
on his blue jeans – socks and not only his “nylon” underwear,
but his sweater. I fixed him the hot water bottle to put his head on
to keep warm. He shivered and shook and we laughed for an hour. I
slept in my long-johns and put the old sweater </span><span style="font-size: large;">I'd worn ever
since I left home. In spite of everything, we slept great! The trip
so far has been far more wonderful than I ever expected. Not one
problem.</span><p></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicEDFjgW-9Jk_2pohk-1T3JWz0NQSdiZ1KBVqYt679qkplSxowlDGMiB4YUwEgyGbekAAR7r2Sl55WWgxyYfo4b3CzJoolX0Z0fAx_OYYyKmtswmzqL_94HRq-85J2U9_kW-G81xflWBPKeFqjJhq0eFUJ4Z4lK7h2bXt4QgZL_AjDGxzWGk2pBJcl7Ro/s3024/20230621_192221.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2350" data-original-width="3024" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicEDFjgW-9Jk_2pohk-1T3JWz0NQSdiZ1KBVqYt679qkplSxowlDGMiB4YUwEgyGbekAAR7r2Sl55WWgxyYfo4b3CzJoolX0Z0fAx_OYYyKmtswmzqL_94HRq-85J2U9_kW-G81xflWBPKeFqjJhq0eFUJ4Z4lK7h2bXt4QgZL_AjDGxzWGk2pBJcl7Ro/w200-h156/20230621_192221.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">Getting our
suitcases at the airport in Russia took over two hours – ours were the very
last to come through and we knew Victor and his friends were waiting
for us. We stood in line for Customs not knowing what to expect.
They took one look at us both- looked at our Visa's and let us
through – didn't open any of suitcases – just waved us on.
Unbelievable! </span><span style="font-size: large;">Victor, Val,
Yuri and Vlad were anxiously waiting for us – they had peach
colored roses for me!!!</span><p></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">MONDAY AM –
We were tired last night – a lot of walking miles – miles.</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">Victor was to
pick us up at 9:30 so we were up at 8 so we could have breakfast. We
went down to the dining room – menu just like yesterday – cold
bread, sweetened water, then cold sausage and instead of mush, we had
2 eggs in a thin alum pan – sunny side up – coffee – real
Russian coffee – grounds on bottom of cup and very strong.</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEIPLzxbYm6NALEE4kjK9lU_jOgL-olt4bMkyHDgejdaF4j-vBgvv8RDNSDfUP462ret4Fjg-EUbdhOJhvXlA3eHRdbQog_tclCtztCFOU9ghguhBQ0eFwubHuhu9tZxlVqutddJ8bi8vFjt6uDoS49aLlJPB97hqcSTmotlbW2psFtWbyqVDFRri3sCU/s3019/20230621_192344.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2566" data-original-width="3019" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEIPLzxbYm6NALEE4kjK9lU_jOgL-olt4bMkyHDgejdaF4j-vBgvv8RDNSDfUP462ret4Fjg-EUbdhOJhvXlA3eHRdbQog_tclCtztCFOU9ghguhBQ0eFwubHuhu9tZxlVqutddJ8bi8vFjt6uDoS49aLlJPB97hqcSTmotlbW2psFtWbyqVDFRri3sCU/w200-h170/20230621_192344.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">Victor was
right on time and we left for a 30 min walk to meet the sponsors for
our course – they presented Dave and me with zippered brief cases
with lots of things inside – very nice. Victor translated our
meeting and things were arranged for the course</span><p></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">We went with
Serge to the Institute to see the rooms. </span><span style="font-size: medium;">They were very nice and set
up was begun. </span><span style="font-size: large;">It was decided
that we'd need a driver to go get the teaching materials so Serge
arranged this – we had a “van” green and white – which he'd
rented for our move – the drive was something else – we zipped
here and there – just missing cars and people – it's perhaps a 2
mile ride – we had a policeman – jump out in front of us – he
took the driver's papers (I don't know what). Lots of loud talking
and hand waving.</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">Before we got
the driver, we decided to have lunch – it was 1PM – we walked
miles, yes, miles! And finally got to a place to eat – we found
they only had some type of cake and coffee (their coffee is very
strong – with grounds of coffee in the bottom of </span><span style="font-size: large;">the cup) No
other food that day – no cream – black or with sugar. You can't
go out on the street and buy anything – no soft drinks, etc. Also
very few restaurants and not like ours at all. They don't serve any
water and very few other drinks – usually only coffee at the end of
the meal. We made it thru that and went back to office to get the
driver. After that, the exciting drive back to the Institute to set
up the equipment. This went very well and it only took us 3 hrs –
we had an engineer and his helper. After set up we started walking
again – to find something for dinner – Finally after only 2
miles, we stopped for dinner – Victor went up to get us something –
that day they had some kind of chicken balls – small amount of
cooked cabbage – a small tomato which had been dipped in boiling
water with some herbs and small amount of noodles (nothing on them)
small hard roll – nothing to drink.</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">Then we walked
to Vlad's house to work ham radio and meet Victor's friends for a
meeting. I put a message on Amtor for Glen and Dave </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNgOrm6Qr654IbSC5UgE5UcGBh25FS0tP8-PlREibae9xPK96QNUTVHG27-pPjyxWa-L94VAfQ_ZcY_OSymgkqM8w3RKPtazW3nz98KJg2VTh4I5x0yWEnq4iIcTtGtQv2QzhRqa3JALkhyr9thEylC04EOIIZYJkOL8T-DWaAl6MX_zIWd0vMqVCnPHE/s3024/20230621_192258.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2420" data-original-width="3024" height="130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNgOrm6Qr654IbSC5UgE5UcGBh25FS0tP8-PlREibae9xPK96QNUTVHG27-pPjyxWa-L94VAfQ_ZcY_OSymgkqM8w3RKPtazW3nz98KJg2VTh4I5x0yWEnq4iIcTtGtQv2QzhRqa3JALkhyr9thEylC04EOIIZYJkOL8T-DWaAl6MX_zIWd0vMqVCnPHE/w163-h130/20230621_192258.jpg" width="163" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />worked the radio
for awhile. We stayed for 5 hours at Vlad's – he had some hot tea
– bread and small tomatoes for us. Tasted really good – We had a
long walk at 11:00 PM to the hotel – We walk everywhere! </span><span style="font-size: large;">At least 10
miles a day. Needless to say, I didn't have to be rocked to sleep. I
washed clothes and my hair both – the hair dryer worked!!!</span><p></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">I really slept
– we don't have heat in our rooms, but made it fine – a little
hard to take a bath – Breakfast was as usual – a hunk- piece of
sausage – thinly sliced cheese and bread – (not like our bread at
all) sugar water and today I had tea – not coffee!</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwIKXVaeA0T81GSqc1UoVX5Rl4NSUk_z54FS1zmscSAmdYkVU6mLIp1QGqfshdK-U8zxr7YT4dXc5G3vVD8KHHwoPAOTZXjIi4-R5-uofpaIXiL-JzXP5eOap0vSzRQakCiVu5gvMlo6rXzz0HRFOgQPCgWu1LVk_Amzsof7Y5XxDkMH7WK-0V131vem0/s3024/20230621_192328.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2256" data-original-width="3024" height="149" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwIKXVaeA0T81GSqc1UoVX5Rl4NSUk_z54FS1zmscSAmdYkVU6mLIp1QGqfshdK-U8zxr7YT4dXc5G3vVD8KHHwoPAOTZXjIi4-R5-uofpaIXiL-JzXP5eOap0vSzRQakCiVu5gvMlo6rXzz0HRFOgQPCgWu1LVk_Amzsof7Y5XxDkMH7WK-0V131vem0/w200-h149/20230621_192328.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;">11:00 AM –
Twelve in the course – Lecture from 9:30 – seems to be going
good. I'm in the back of the class – writing notes.</span><p></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now I'll get
back to a few notes on our stay so far – things we've done so far –
things I've found exciting so far ------ there seem to be only apples
– tomatoes and a few watermelons in the markets. No stores like
ours to go into to buy groceries – I haven't seen anything like
ours. They only have one or two things to sell at a time. Today they
might have tomatoes – next week potatoes – you can find almost
nowhere to find something to drink in town – also no restrooms.
I've only seen one public one – in the center of town –
underground – have to pay to use – also only whole in the ground
– covered with something like narrow sink with small amount of
water running over it – also no paper at all – good rule –
never go anywhere without your own “paper” - No restrooms in
restaurants – paper like notebook paper if any – even in homes
they don't have toilet tissue – no paper towels and no napkins –
except for very formal dinners. I haven't seen any dish-washing
detergent at all – even soap is very scarce – the hotel had cut a
bar into almost 20 pieces and each room had a sliver! - I haven't
seen anywhere to buy needed items. We do have running water and hot
water. Much of Lvov is always water rationed. They only use bare
necessities for everything.</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"> There's always
people on the streets – so many people walking around – yet they
say “no unemployment”. I guess just lots of people laying out of
work. Yesterday we saw a Ukrainian demonstration in center of town –
they demo for 1 hour.</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">You always see
people carrying shopping bags – they do this just in case they find
something to buy. Which in the food line is quite unusual. There are
lines everywhere! The longest line was for Vodka! One store had a
long line waiting out front – that day they had a few pairs of
shoes .</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"> 2:00 PM –
Well, my tongue is hanging out – we left at 1:00 PM – walked to a
restaurant (about ½ mile away). Had pizza (Ukrainian style) round
bread – sm amount of hunks of meat with herbs – chunks of
tomatoes on top – pretty good except for the meat</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> - </span><span style="font-size: large;">some juice
(plum I think) and a pastry with sugar on top! We left there and
walked about ¼ mile for coffee – They were closed! Next walked to
another coffee house – found coffee – then ½ mile walk back to
school – Dave has decided he can't make it out tomorrow – will
have an apple here and rest. I made it pretty good, but I wore out a
pair of shoes and my feet – I will remember to wear flats
tomorrow!!! I made a stop at the restroom – they have one here at
school – it may be the last stop!! Lecture is going now, the
sponsor for the seminar is supposed to take us to dinner and talks
tonight – They were supposed to have planned lunch, but we didn't
see anyone. If they come for dinner, I hope they have a car –
because it's a really lot of walking here -</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">Also, we
learned that the pay in this country is really low – Victor, an
engineer only makes 200 rubles a month – This is equal to $10-$12
US money. Helen makes 100 rubles - $5-$6 US money. Their apt (which
they share with Helen's mother Olga, their daughter Julia and is 2
rooms) costs them 30 rubles. They have no car and they never expect
to have one. Victor's Dad Vlad has never had a vehicle – there are
very few cars here in Russia – Needless to say, they are very
expensive – There are no individual homes in town – only small 2
or 3 room apts – some even share a common bath.</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Sponsor
didn't get dinner arranged, so some of the people in the seminar
decided to go with us for dinner! We walked at least 1 ½ miles to
the restaurant – it was closed – no food – we then walked
another mile or two and the next restaurant was also closed! We were
very tired by then so we decided to go to Victor's Dad's home. We had
to walk again and stopped along the way to get something to take
home. All the booths with veg only had dried up old veg and fruit so
we went by the bread store – the line was long, but Victor got in
it and waited to get bread – we then walked to Vlad's so Dave could
work the radio – Vlad had some food in ref and he fixed us
potatoes, tomatoes, bread and hot tea. He also had a little pot of
meat stew which he insisted that we share – one kilo (#) meat costs
here in Russia many days pay. It was a real sacrifice to share. </span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"> We stayed
until 9PM and Dave worked the radio. It was great. Victor walked us
back to the hotel – at least 2 miles or more and then he had to
walk back to his house – 3 to 4 miles. We were ready for bed when
we finally got to the hotel – We couldn't even get anything to
drink when we got there – the restaurant was closed and the bar
also. It's impossible to find anything to drink here – only hot
tea or strong coffee – my kidneys are drying out – we don't
drink the water (They told us not to) and we can't find bottled
mineral water.</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">WEDNESDAY –
It's a beautiful morning – We had breakfast as usual – thin
sliced whole-hog Polish sausages, bread and something that I think
was a potato pancake with sour-sweet butter – sugar water and I got
smart – I have hot tea - not coffee – too many grounds in the
coffee.</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">(SPECIAL
MEMORY) about our breakfasts!!!! Every morning we'd go down to the
restaurant to eat at the hotel and I was sooooo thirsty I'd drink the
(what I think was sugar water/apple juice) from all the glasses on
our table – then I was surprised to find that the lady who came to
pick up the dishes at the table after each use was pouring all the
juice left in each glass into other glasses on the table and not
pouring it out and putting new glasses out!!!! Anyway – I survived!
Dave and I still laugh about this!</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">We walked to
meet Victor down below the hotel at the street corner – walked to
school and began the day – Victor brought lunch so we wouldn't have
to go out and walk at lunch time. (SPECIAL MEMORY) of Dave's about
his course – The first day of the course we had 12 attendees –
the second day 11 and the third day 10 and we had 10 the rest of the
course – to find out the reason – it was because to begin with
there were 3 KGB agents there – second day only 2 and the last one
stayed for the whole course!!!</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">We are going
to walk to the Ham Club tonight and speak to them and show slides.
Dave's really anxious to meet them. Hope I can find a place to buy
bottled water today.</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">We may go to
Kiev next week before we go to Moscow for a few days.</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">Back from
lunch at 2PM to begin afternoon. We ate downstairs – Helen had
prepared sandwiches of black bread with some kind of creamed/cottage
cheese with egg spread on it -delicious – we had a granola bar I'd brought
from the states and black coffee.</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXMW6fmTC_JuHRkdSvwuS05fBUuBil9sAwvEOKIRN76Mz1Ea4bkX1s0q3Y0ytsxfkyc3hNTE1IkxXyBV-sbmGzAUqWm-phWv4pdYx7M8B7-KKv7TpzZd7B4wXcb0vXX34_f-JCwv14YlXENGjQFFASXmrlpQIiS-begnF9wt9S7c14ffysoE6SZwsvuqg/s4032/20230621_192537.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXMW6fmTC_JuHRkdSvwuS05fBUuBil9sAwvEOKIRN76Mz1Ea4bkX1s0q3Y0ytsxfkyc3hNTE1IkxXyBV-sbmGzAUqWm-phWv4pdYx7M8B7-KKv7TpzZd7B4wXcb0vXX34_f-JCwv14YlXENGjQFFASXmrlpQIiS-begnF9wt9S7c14ffysoE6SZwsvuqg/w150-h200/20230621_192537.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Around 3 PM I
was able to go to a good art gallery for a showing – did some
shopping and had cake and coffee – then walked back to the hotel –
couldn't find bottled water anywhere so got apple juice to put in ref
at hotel. I bought lots of craft things - very little to buy here.
We are looking into the possibility of shipping “direct mail” a
painted wooden Ukrainian egg which is hand-painted here – Very lovely -</span><p></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRNKvZm1PduDWq2-gurQPkX9jNoZXx_cFZNzldpPWj5v-NN2z18SLIfmHqF5uFOevKHxjpLGEsezAnNj5R9zDfVd2bUfQQAjfElzCeuw0iZhePG8nY5f4r8F5Z0XxD08klxSzq_HmX2lf0zCm3tcC6QTzFFukRP9mhgqFxJ-YllYjnKH_4tu8WN_i1_Rg/s3024/20230621_192234.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2493" data-original-width="3024" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRNKvZm1PduDWq2-gurQPkX9jNoZXx_cFZNzldpPWj5v-NN2z18SLIfmHqF5uFOevKHxjpLGEsezAnNj5R9zDfVd2bUfQQAjfElzCeuw0iZhePG8nY5f4r8F5Z0XxD08klxSzq_HmX2lf0zCm3tcC6QTzFFukRP9mhgqFxJ-YllYjnKH_4tu8WN_i1_Rg/w200-h165/20230621_192234.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">Well, we just
had a break – I had hot tea today – couldn't go any more black
coffee. Met Victor and Dave for the tram ride to the Ham Club. The
meeting was very nice and we showed slides of VPI Ham Shack etc. After the meeting, we went back over to Victor and Helen's house for
dinner – delicious meal! Meat (pork) loaf stuffed with hard-cooked
eggs – peppers – tomatoes – bread – fried shredded potatoes
and much dessert – preserved cherries – Russian marshmallows –
wine – they really put a lot of food out! At 11PM we walked for
miles back to the hotel – Helen also had bottled water and she gave
us some – I fell into bed! Dave's ankles have been hurting for a
couple of days and mine have not bothered me – but today was much
more walking than usual. The bottoms of my feet feel bruised from
the walking – especially since the streets are uneven and made of
large uneven stones. I fell into bed and into sleep – Needless to
say we didn't want to get up the next morning.</span><p></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">(SPECIAL
MEMORY) of the in-tourist hotel we stayed in!!!! It was very nice but
I couldn't understand why all the walls were about 24 to 36 inches
thick – and there were small holes at the top of the walls –
later learned that we were probably being watched the whole time we
were in the hotel!! Guess they got a laugh out of us taking a bath in
the ice cold water and tub and shivering! I did get smart and the
few hours we did have water – I used a rubber pad and stopped the
water from running out and filled the tub up with water – we had a
Samivar in the room to heat water for coffee and tea and I used it to
heat water whenever we needed it to take a bath!!! Yea! It also made
sense that we were being watched because when we came back into our
room one day I noticed that my clothes in the suitcase seemed to have
been moved around! The next day, I put a string across the clothes
and yes, when we got back, the string was moved around!!</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWuCL2bjUjtSXkaGz6uYiS8Wkrc1ivm-QtAiH_NM3ZAvWRKefuCQET7pEcj_MybC3_UUr_KEdc05dj_TtN4J2R-PFx9IIdgHi0Qel-H1eqrnq0b2ywbJ6yNRxjq2VWbQ6WWo1FmzCW2AJz8SG0ZJO897_tPu85JFZwljnp__xOmy1cgiAy_eWZqkKj0Xg/s2955/20230621_192338.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2154" data-original-width="2955" height="146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWuCL2bjUjtSXkaGz6uYiS8Wkrc1ivm-QtAiH_NM3ZAvWRKefuCQET7pEcj_MybC3_UUr_KEdc05dj_TtN4J2R-PFx9IIdgHi0Qel-H1eqrnq0b2ywbJ6yNRxjq2VWbQ6WWo1FmzCW2AJz8SG0ZJO897_tPu85JFZwljnp__xOmy1cgiAy_eWZqkKj0Xg/w200-h146/20230621_192338.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;">THURSDAY –
We awoke with the sun shining – a beautiful day. Had a quick
breakfast (bread, crepe of egg – hot tea) We met Victor on time and
walked through town to the school – The class is really going well
– Had good break with the participants in the cafeteria. Took
pictures etc. - </span><p></p><p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">Victor brought lunch from home again today – Good –
Sausage with chives and creamed cheese on bread. We had a tomato and
yellow peppers – also hot tea – I sure could use a nap right
now!!! I went out to an art gallery – the park and a museum this
afternoon. </span></p><p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">We are going to Vlad's for radio contacts and to meet
Paige – the girl from the US who's living here in Russia for a
year. Julia and Helen should be there also. Helen came to visit us
at lunch. Her sweater was a beautiful hand-knitted one and she said
she knitted it. I'm going to send her some yarn for her to use. In
the afternoon I went out to a few shops. The stores are almost all
bare except for a few items here and there – clothes were very out
of date – like 1950's and very poor quality – no shoes anywhere –
a few household items but not a full line of anything. This
“supermarket” was out in a big field – no roads- walks, etc.
Very different. There were hundreds and hundreds of large tall apartment
buildings out there and clothes hanging on each balcony. They have
no washing machines or if they do get</span> one <span style="font-size: large;">they have to
wait for years for their name to come up to buy one. The same is true
for all appliances – TVs, Ref, stoves, etc.</span><p></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">After the trip
outside of Lvov, we took the tram back to Lvov and took a long walk
thru 2 parks which were really beautiful. We had an ice cream cone
which was wonderful – very rich like real cream in it. We walked
again and back into town. </span><p></p><p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span>We had coffee and sweets </span><span>around 6 at a
coffee house and then called Victor to come meet us so we could go
back with him to his Dad's </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0srhJrCTZjJJ9dgm8eKIQGPotS_8DLVq8DPf5kWi-CKPDDGJOExQuJBq13jWIyCFgohdj5daDfOp2ts32SPrZLmLQy1a0qlm3XgGfDb6JQkx9nMxRWFLO_gPIkCFUgIE83b-ZDb8BgTw6v4ylstRvJasfbbt06L9RmPzWUS4V_2yrqZk-Zt_m0KBQJpg/s3024/20230621_192305.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2192" data-original-width="3024" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0srhJrCTZjJJ9dgm8eKIQGPotS_8DLVq8DPf5kWi-CKPDDGJOExQuJBq13jWIyCFgohdj5daDfOp2ts32SPrZLmLQy1a0qlm3XgGfDb6JQkx9nMxRWFLO_gPIkCFUgIE83b-ZDb8BgTw6v4ylstRvJasfbbt06L9RmPzWUS4V_2yrqZk-Zt_m0KBQJpg/w200-h145/20230621_192305.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span><br />house for dinner. Julia and Helen were
waiting and we had dinner before the American girl Paige and her
Russian Dad came in to visit</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">. </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">She will be here for 1 year. She's a
ham radio operator and is really excited about Victor's computer.
Dave gave Paige our recorder to use and she put a message on it for
us to give to her parents.</span><p></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">We left Vlad's
to head back to the hotel when Paige left and for the first time, we
didn't walk the 2 or so miles – we took a taxi and my feet sighed
with relief! We didn't need a rocking chair when we got to the hotel
– we took our showers and I washed out some clothes – then hit
the sack! No trouble sleeping at all – 7:15 came much too early.</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">FRIDAY –
Morning was cool and a little rain falling – the wind also blowing
some. We had a little breakfast – more cut thin sliced Polish
sausage – cold bread and sugar water and this morning baked mush
</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCLxlJ8P-19453zbHD0ddGXhKyojlJir9h7zzooU9-7sKl_APqrjikLcmJm0jasRXDQ18_TBcb5-YVlNe7NPoVW4ECMrj3SZAoqut5PKtTec5THgS2VQURl80G3oOiJWRSo6ndAKy5EGEqmpAt26qBcre0y91mySJ9I2zFL0uYZP4BV2sdVz1UbhiZkio/s3024/20230621_192352.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2449" data-original-width="3024" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCLxlJ8P-19453zbHD0ddGXhKyojlJir9h7zzooU9-7sKl_APqrjikLcmJm0jasRXDQ18_TBcb5-YVlNe7NPoVW4ECMrj3SZAoqut5PKtTec5THgS2VQURl80G3oOiJWRSo6ndAKy5EGEqmpAt26qBcre0y91mySJ9I2zFL0uYZP4BV2sdVz1UbhiZkio/w200-h162/20230621_192352.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dave and Gaynell having lunch <br />with Sponsors of the <br />Workshop</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><br />again with “mayo” and hot tea. 8:30 we met Victor exactly on
schedule and walked to the school – Lecture and classes – a
pretty good day and lots of excitement in the experiments. After we
give out the Certificates Saturday we will go to Victor's Dad's house
to work radio while we're out – It's almost lunchtime now – I
hope I get awake before too long – I'm soooo sleepy. I worked on
the Certificates and pictures today and have them all finished. Vlad
and Alex came for us to go to lunch. It was 12:30 when we left
because so many people wanted “to talk” to Dave</span><p></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">We drove “in
a car” to the Restaurant – guess what? Not open!!! They kept
knocking and finally someone let us in. They were having a wedding
party there and were closed – said No Food. We did get to eat
after an hour's wait. Their salad consisted of sausage patties with
tomatoes and cabbage and hard-cooked eggs and bread. Not too bad.
Then came some kind of soup with little round noodles, a few veggies
and cabbage. You don't dare drink the water here so we had bottled
mineral water. We finally got through and then had to drive back
over to the school, but no one was upset that we were late –
they're used to waiting for everything. We got started back to work
at 2:30 and at 4, the course was over and all the participants
gathered around and presented us with many gifts and me flowers –
also very touching and they said many wonderful things to us
(which Victor translated) and we all cried – I think we've made
some long-time friends. The folks here are very receptive to help and
so warm and friendly. We started packing up at 4:30 with the help of
the 2 Vlads (engineer at Institute and a helper) Alex and Vladimer
came to drive us to the hotel – and we put all the teaching thing
in our room.</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">At 7 we went
down to the restaurant to meet with Serge and _________, the sponsors
of the course for a dinner. Had a wonderful time, but they really
mixed the food with toasts – Vodka – champagne and then wine. Had
a wonderful band and I danced with Serge, who's a wonderful danger –
said he'd never danced with an American woman and he hadn't danced in
5 years – could have fooled me! It was very late when we came back
up to the room so Victor stayed with us since he would have had to
walk home 3 or 4 miles then come back Saturday AM.</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">SATURDAY –
We went to school to give out the Certificates. Afterwards, Dave and
Victor went back to Vlad's to work the radio and I did some touring museums. I only walked at least 10 miles!!!! got back to the
hotel and I was very tired so I tried to take a bath and go to bed,
but no water, so I used water from the Samivar to wash my face and
brush my teeth and went to bed. At 11:30 Mike, Victor's brother,
walked Dave back to the hotel so Victor wouldn't have to – Victor
was very tired after all the translating and proposals.</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">SUNDAY – We
had a wonderful day planned - the weather was warm and sunny and
some friends of Victor's (they both have a car) came to the hotel at
11:45 to pick us up for a trip out to the country – </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Z0RLkzoV9eA1WiV3bfSRDd860oDyg6pJq7edWe3ZyzQjk7B88fquWULR-BiP0KyKUR-kEPQHicic-xdtguaW0FtEBwo3DD2d3TT_Z2Al7OTY4VZVeyhYAPD7j9TgALlxtGxK3t9I9vYr9FDjXaPbk2jN9GUjfaHs9mDqyUwZsVbsgxe5NQCh2z6GiSU/s4032/20230619_112916.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Z0RLkzoV9eA1WiV3bfSRDd860oDyg6pJq7edWe3ZyzQjk7B88fquWULR-BiP0KyKUR-kEPQHicic-xdtguaW0FtEBwo3DD2d3TT_Z2Al7OTY4VZVeyhYAPD7j9TgALlxtGxK3t9I9vYr9FDjXaPbk2jN9GUjfaHs9mDqyUwZsVbsgxe5NQCh2z6GiSU/w108-h144/20230619_112916.jpg" width="108" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />about 50 miles
away – to see a castle and art museum. Dave and I had our usual
breakfast in the hotel – cheese, bread and some kind of souffle
(about the size of a 50 cent piece) and a hot tea – we were glad to
get that because at first they told us they weren't serving any
more!! Never know! We took 2 cars – 12 of us and you can only put 2
in the front seats. That meant 4 in the back of a car that is about
the size of Dave's little Subaru. Very interesting!! Nevertheless we
had a wonderful time.</span><p></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">Took pictures –
toured and about 2:30 we stopped for picnic in the woods. Wonderful
– the people here are sooo nice and giving. The </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc_Req60W0g_6Dr3xyN_5DF3d1Gz7yHxQTbV-Tiy52VgpQ2hpLo-1v4Qj7oWzBUSJPPBcWL5yojwgoLH2dnbz7c3Slh6yABcz8vayx_gOCsOtyekvjpkGFEyx-o1fYu-kNWWsaWTWJiP2ph1Z7LTyK1w0lG9BI7mPvCZPqykmsbHQ5gO9bcO1dgIdgCUg/s2813/20230621_192428.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2045" data-original-width="2813" height="115" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc_Req60W0g_6Dr3xyN_5DF3d1Gz7yHxQTbV-Tiy52VgpQ2hpLo-1v4Qj7oWzBUSJPPBcWL5yojwgoLH2dnbz7c3Slh6yABcz8vayx_gOCsOtyekvjpkGFEyx-o1fYu-kNWWsaWTWJiP2ph1Z7LTyK1w0lG9BI7mPvCZPqykmsbHQ5gO9bcO1dgIdgCUg/w158-h115/20230621_192428.jpg" width="158" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />woman had fixed
everything – it was all really good – slices of bread with polish
sausages on them – jars of canned vegetables – green beans –
carrots mixed together – evidently they cook the veg some and put
in jar with little vinegar water and can – jars of chopped vegs
(like a relish) and something like mushrooms in tomato paste /w/
vinegar canned. (In fact, I think it might have been egg plant
instead of mushrooms.) Anyway, it was good – a baked chicken –
mineral water – pieces of tomato and peppers – a sm cake and even
some coffee. Great! I got back to Lvov and they dropped me off at the
hotel and Dave went to Vlad's to work on the radio all night.</span><p></p><p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">ANOTHER SPECIAL MEMORY - Helen told Julia that she needed to learn to speak English so she could talk to GayGay - Julia said "I don't need to learn English - GayGay understands me anyway!"</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">MONDAY –
This morning it is rainy and very disagreeable so I got dressed and
went down for breakfast - was as usual. Vic met Dave and they went to
Mr. Sudrogin's office for a meeting. We are going to have lunch here
at the hotel with friends. In the afternoon Vic and Dave and I
stayed in the hotel and dictated a few Thank You letters on the tape
recorder. We are going to make copies of the tape and send to the
people who </span><span style="font-size: large;">wrote letters
and supported our trip to Lvov. Also to the ones who donated
equipment, etc to bring to Russia. That afternoon we walked to the PO
to get envelopes and stamps - </span><span style="font-size: large;">Guess What?
They were out!! Had to walk on further and finally found some. We
then walked to a small shop and bought a large number of </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgoEXDn2qyZCbDTtEk4MyN_uklqhX0CNLfDFO0RbeLjevByG35_r0OYlJDFbD6Om0D9YVhBSJzj1wTmK0jr6evYQq0JarbK0mSAKTzXAQpSU1gLaNl-N4X2_R53YgmSxUui-2ym--I9OoGqqZ7DsxeIeh40vzUqE0WtSps4bt_UOQzW5fUglEH22kxmkY/s4032/20230621_192537.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgoEXDn2qyZCbDTtEk4MyN_uklqhX0CNLfDFO0RbeLjevByG35_r0OYlJDFbD6Om0D9YVhBSJzj1wTmK0jr6evYQq0JarbK0mSAKTzXAQpSU1gLaNl-N4X2_R53YgmSxUui-2ym--I9OoGqqZ7DsxeIeh40vzUqE0WtSps4bt_UOQzW5fUglEH22kxmkY/w150-h200/20230621_192537.jpg" width="150" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />Ukrainian
hand-painted “Folk Art” wooden eggs. We are working on a
marketing program through Brookfield (this is our Christmas Tree
Business and we ship Christmas trees all over the US – one tree to
one customer) to sell them direct mail. We do hope we can help the
Ukrainians market some </span><span style="font-size: large;">art products in
the US. After purchasing the eggs, Dave, Vic and I went to a museum,
a couple of very old beautiful Churches and then to a coffee house for
cake and coffee. Dave and Vic walked back to Vlad's and I stayed at
the hotel – it had rained all day and my shoes were soaked. Dave
stayed at Vlad's apt again tonight so I called him and got ready for
bed – I have really slept well every night I've been here – even
staying here in the hotel alone – I slept great.</span><p></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">TUESDAY AM -
Never moved all night! I just got back from breakfast. They sat some
old man from Germany with me at the table for breakfast. He spoke
some English so we got along fine – He left Kiev in 1945 and has
not been able to get a Visa to return until now. He is a journalist
and will be here for a month. Two weeks to write and hopefully 2
weeks to tour and see where he grew up. He's Polish – was very
interesting.</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">I talked with
Dave and he's having a ball on the radio – Vlad has been so kind
and seems to enjoy having Dave over there. Dave's hoping to make over
1,000 contacts while he's here in Lvov. We are to have lunch here in
the hotel at 1PM with some folks – I'm going to go to a couple of
museums and go buy more Ukrainian eggs. Called Vic and he came down
town to meet me and we walked back to Vlad's and on the way, we
stopped by to meet Victor's friend who walked on with us to Vlad's.
Two people came by with proposals for us to consider. Ukrainian
clothes (art work). We left Vlad's at 11 and they drove us back to
the hotel – wonderful – not having to walk those miles at
midnight! I was pretty hungry because I couldn't find anything with
food for dinner. Dave stayed at the hotel on Tuesday night with me
and we packed things up and got ready for our trip home via 2 days in
Moscow. Breakfast as usual at hotel – no service and not too much
food – I went to see a couple of museums then met the guys back at
the hotel for lunch with Vlad and his wife. Dave, Vic and I walked
back downstairs for signing proposals meeting. Then we went to Vic
and Helen's for a wonderful celebration and Ukrainian meal. Hated to
tell Julia goodbye – They had more gifts for us – Everyone had
gifts for us!!</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span style="font-size: large;"> Vic walked me
back to the hotel at 11:00 and Dave went to Vlad's hoping to talk all
night on the ham radio – the signals to the State were bad so
nothing – only 2 contacts. I packed a little more when I got back
to the room and took my bath. We had heat for the first time!!! I had
washed some clothes out and I figured they would be dry by the next
AM.</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"> THURSDAY – I
got up at 6:30 to be ready to leave for the train by 7:30 – Victor
and Dave arrived on time and I watched from my window and Mr.
Sudogrin and the car arrived. He had a bouquet of peach colored roses
for me and we make our trip to the car with 4 big bags, etc. Guess
what? Soviet car – only room for 2 people and our luggage –
Victor goes with the driver to the train station and Mr. Sudogrin,
Dave and I start walking. The driver comes back after 30 minutes and
picks us up – at the station we are greeted by many people –
Helen, Vlad and another Vlad – Victor's brother Michael and a guy
from Plasticks with another proposal. They all had flowers for me too
– red carnations – peach roses and white </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieH32bTXWI-W0rQqKjDEpnTDK3X1Kg8WxOIcShIO1Ky3Zv9TrDQTK1EbH0b5bHSKRZotcqeg--0BBpft5We5rH1LKPSa1iJIQC_Ta5m5TNQglzfDmFOjxN42pM0VqR6vS2qY48uUWpDrh7j4uR9ZjZwQgQ5-6dmJP_AZ4F2kY8VqF8UICC0EO4WKhyEjo/s3024/20230621_192407.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2382" data-original-width="3024" height="158" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieH32bTXWI-W0rQqKjDEpnTDK3X1Kg8WxOIcShIO1Ky3Zv9TrDQTK1EbH0b5bHSKRZotcqeg--0BBpft5We5rH1LKPSa1iJIQC_Ta5m5TNQglzfDmFOjxN42pM0VqR6vS2qY48uUWpDrh7j4uR9ZjZwQgQ5-6dmJP_AZ4F2kY8VqF8UICC0EO4WKhyEjo/w200-h158/20230621_192407.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />geraniums – really
touching. We all cried and “kissed” and hugged a lot – our
train left right on schedule from Lvov for Moscow – Victor, Dave
and I had a sleeper to ourselves and we then had breakfast – THANKS
to Helen and Vlad. Sure tasted good – fried fish and meat –
cheese and cold bread – tomatoes and peppers! Then we slept for a
couple of hours and had plenty of time (23 hours) to visit and catch
up on our tape (for letters) and writing</span><span style="font-size: medium;">. </span>
<p></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">Our trip has
been wonderful!!! I never dreamed of anything like this!! I'm
returning home with so many emotions – So much happiness for such a
wonderful trip and sadness for leaving our wonderful friends who are
faced with such a hard life and not a whole lot to look forward to –</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">(Written from
the plane going home) I can hardly wait to see Jarrad – he's at
our house waiting for us!!! I've missed him and Mom Larsen more than
anyone – I hope everyone at home is well – it's like we've
skipped 2 ½ weeks. Fall has gone and leaves have fallen – I've
really been surprised at how similar Lvov and Floyd are – the
seasons are alike – Lvov reminds me of a city 50 years ago and so
much like living (buildings, etc) of 200 years ago. Very strange!
Many of the streets (most) are still stone paved. Most of the
buildings that are used as apt flats were built during the beginning
of the century. It's like moving back in time – nothing new –
everything stopped being built before WWII. They're still in the
30's. I can not believe the lines – lines for everything – You
have lines in the bread stores – lines in the tool stores – can't
get water- shortages of everything – they don't even know what
cleaning supplies are – never heard of – have to use hand soap if
they have it to do dishes with and wash clothes with.</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">I was just
telling Dave here on the plane – I wish I could record all this –
I can't write fast enough to get all the happenings down – I really
Thank God for letting us have and experience such a wonderful 2 ½
weeks. I truly hope Dave and I together can do something to help
these wonderful people.</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">The train ride
to Moscow was good – slept OK and arrived 1 ½ hours late – crazy
trains and I'm afraid really bad train tracks – I really learned
about trains on my way from Moscow to Lvov – no TT, only newspaper
and very little pieces of it – I brought </span><span style="font-size: large;">US toilet
tissue with us on trip back from Lvov to Moscow – was prepared!!!</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">MOSCOW visit on the way back to US -</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">Vladimir met
us at the train station at 11 – we were scheduled earlier. He took
us straight out to the country to his home – took 1 ½ hours to get
there – this is Friday. When we arrived (he and Victor and two
friends had met Dave and me when we got to Moscow on our way to Lvov)
we found out that we would be staying in his home – very unexpected
but we've learned to go with the tide and not make</span></p><p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifu0gQmpi1ZU5ob6yA2xxSkeaEaXepC2GakJl0iuOfdzaVcZJBUAwPnZZIv6Yw5AzKE-ZHzl9TGVZ8oRXHiL77kolMgeY_0mwOM16EyAT-g2XVRYCftDzrsv2fdspPoiGa5RaSPcAUHLHS_Tw-wpVmH3tC7HuO4wknhCG3dEe3shJYmUr5kMjfND6RAgU/s2955/20230621_192501.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; font-size: x-large; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2468" data-original-width="2955" height="167" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifu0gQmpi1ZU5ob6yA2xxSkeaEaXepC2GakJl0iuOfdzaVcZJBUAwPnZZIv6Yw5AzKE-ZHzl9TGVZ8oRXHiL77kolMgeY_0mwOM16EyAT-g2XVRYCftDzrsv2fdspPoiGa5RaSPcAUHLHS_Tw-wpVmH3tC7HuO4wknhCG3dEe3shJYmUr5kMjfND6RAgU/w200-h167/20230621_192501.jpg" width="200" /></a><br />waves!!! Vlad and
Ludmila gave Dave and me their room – Vlad's Mom had arrived on
October 4 to live with them and they have 3 children – Michael 3 ½,
Olga 5 and Katrina about 8 or 9. They are such wonderful kids – we
still haven't figured out where they slept – they gave us their
room – we slept on an old couch which opened into a very large bed
– I couldn't figure it out and when we checked, they had put a
piece of plywood on the top then covered it with some type of feather
tick (??) clean! Sheet and then the traditional Russian cover – a
kind of sheet with a wool blanket inside – they had the same at the
hotel in Lvov. They really only had 4 rooms – kitchen, living room
and 2 bedrooms. Vlad's mother had a bed in a portion of one room (it
had previously been partitioned off for Vlad's office – she sleeps
in there and the children have the other portion – large room with
bunk beds, etc. Kitchen w/eating area – living/dining room and our
master bedroom – two closets had been converted into baths – all
Russian homes/apts we've seen have little room for toilet seat and
little room for sink & tub. If only candid camera had been around
for the bath Dave and I took our first night – no one else took one
– we both had to lean over the small sink to get the door shut –
we got ready and I got in the tub – told them we were ready for the
water and took a very quick bath – lukewarm – when I stepped out
of the tub, Dave almost had to sit on the basin. Earlier in the day
– after we had put our bags in our room, Ludmila had a lunch for us
– some kind of buttered toast w/sausages on it and melted cheese on
top – she's really a wonderful cook – had other relishes etc
also.</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">After lunch, we
drove back into Moscow to see George at his home – he's “Chief of
Police”. Beautiful home – up 3 flights of steps – </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGiGC2k9VpaPweK9SKIGPid3GpTIKQddoziPL89COTsxfFoLEhLQ3gAUGUJ4UNXgEHXQVMs15GNW0FQpXnWrYoc1RvpyyXylRVsGyIqwg0plErVN-heBvcKlbiqvqcDYr5qZ_xnpEIbx1204C_SRszuhrzDlo2l3GzGE5-7NEsm8JdZUc7b6h1r0HPzT8/s3488/20230621_192445.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3488" data-original-width="3024" height="153" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGiGC2k9VpaPweK9SKIGPid3GpTIKQddoziPL89COTsxfFoLEhLQ3gAUGUJ4UNXgEHXQVMs15GNW0FQpXnWrYoc1RvpyyXylRVsGyIqwg0plErVN-heBvcKlbiqvqcDYr5qZ_xnpEIbx1204C_SRszuhrzDlo2l3GzGE5-7NEsm8JdZUc7b6h1r0HPzT8/w133-h153/20230621_192445.jpg" width="133" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />1800's
stairway past coded doors – apt. was very nice. The best we've
seen in our stay in Russia! He offered us coffee and gave us many
gifts – one of which was a Soviet Union Police Hat (used) postcards, etc.
We stayed for over an hour here and would have stayed longer but it
was Vlad's Mother's Birthday and Ludmila was fixing a special
celebration meal. George's wife and daughter came back and we
visited his ham shack – his daughter gave us gifts also.</span><p></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL8zoIUYAatcwBXFJcQhBDyAF1nfNhhWlA620lB_kjAYlFz0avXk-Mnfa2XVELdzhej4pP7Cy62b8rGzpI5VMaa3Ad2ZwKa9AWf59YMSTlQln1hCpyJ96B1d0YdCI0Xreie1p5iQ-OTw8p1Vn9w-k__zOLd042L_2jxwrrRBvHG3G35GzyVFxvrO0ix2w/s3006/20230621_192452.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2861" data-original-width="3006" height="158" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL8zoIUYAatcwBXFJcQhBDyAF1nfNhhWlA620lB_kjAYlFz0avXk-Mnfa2XVELdzhej4pP7Cy62b8rGzpI5VMaa3Ad2ZwKa9AWf59YMSTlQln1hCpyJ96B1d0YdCI0Xreie1p5iQ-OTw8p1Vn9w-k__zOLd042L_2jxwrrRBvHG3G35GzyVFxvrO0ix2w/w166-h158/20230621_192452.jpg" width="166" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />We rushed back
to Vlad's and his family for celebration meal – had a wonderful
Russian meal – they always have lots of salads – at least 4-6 –
then meal – dessert and coffee – always toasts with Vodka – each
course. They also had a couple visiting – he works with Vlad –
very nice people. It was after midnight when we all settled in –
slept until 9 Sat AM. Had a big breakfast – leftovers from
celebration meal etc. and coffee (with grounds, etc) always black
with sugar</span><p></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"> After
breakfast and some construction work on the house – had ½ doz
workers out – Vlad, Ludmila, Victor, Dave and I took off to tour
Moscow. The kids stayed with Vlad's Mom – we drove around – </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGfTd6-cyZFopiyrkQeKo5VUgeohciOxfb84fphjwIjVqcyDKVVYV_2QcSjYW68h06WwWfQ___pp6J5pRPtzst0FGkTl382y4fFDde2dCQVfCMUuPi-SHTmrCH5SUOmadSWfNQpdKP-ayuznOyUN600lLCpirfOhjrUhP3n_ekcuQMSQbMLc8yEu2gnak/s3024/20230621_192529.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2186" data-original-width="3024" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGfTd6-cyZFopiyrkQeKo5VUgeohciOxfb84fphjwIjVqcyDKVVYV_2QcSjYW68h06WwWfQ___pp6J5pRPtzst0FGkTl382y4fFDde2dCQVfCMUuPi-SHTmrCH5SUOmadSWfNQpdKP-ayuznOyUN600lLCpirfOhjrUhP3n_ekcuQMSQbMLc8yEu2gnak/w200-h144/20230621_192529.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />went
to the largest antique/folk art flea market I've ever seen. Bought
souvenirs – tried to find a restroom or restaurant for coffee but
failed on restaurants – Finally had to settle for underground
restroom, just off Red Square – served the purpose anyway!!! At
least I learned – always be prepared for any situation – Always
carry tissues with you! Took pictures – Tried to get gas but all
the lines were over an hour long so we drove home.</span><p></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPWzM1f-_SWMU0AdR8VsFEozRPOSsuPUO_WzuaZ2Pp3nWBSUPuh9WbdoqKwfRTUDNzpev8aAQj5A43zWtJmz_SLhBZ9r9uPUjd8Bausew70kWdYyECEIth22jqnufmC6QTceLgapPWf3vMclyX_D-5ywRrrTcLbZUTGyfkuSUT4Y2BGR4YatFTAi-T474/s3024/20230621_192510.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2264" data-original-width="3024" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPWzM1f-_SWMU0AdR8VsFEozRPOSsuPUO_WzuaZ2Pp3nWBSUPuh9WbdoqKwfRTUDNzpev8aAQj5A43zWtJmz_SLhBZ9r9uPUjd8Bausew70kWdYyECEIth22jqnufmC6QTceLgapPWf3vMclyX_D-5ywRrrTcLbZUTGyfkuSUT4Y2BGR4YatFTAi-T474/w171-h128/20230621_192510.jpg" width="171" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />Saw McDonald's
in Moscow – The line was VERY long – over several blocks long.</span><p></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">Couldn't
believe it. When we got home Ludmila fixed chicken and potatoes –
lots of other leftovers and we had dinner – after dinner and dishes
and putting the children to bed, we sat around and talked and packed
for today. At 11PM Ludmila goes to the kitchen and starts cooking.
She fixed tea and the most wonderful little pancakes – potato cakes
or something – ate with your fingers and put things on top – she
had whipped cream – stewed apples – honey – fish etc – Very
good. At 12:30, Dave and I went to bed and I just fell asleep
immediately – Never moved until 7:30 when I heard Ludmila up –
had a big breakfast – crepes with cream-apples-honey-fish etc on
them – coffee etc.</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">We left for
the airport at exactly 9 and arrived at 9:30 – really good – Many
people trying to get thru Customs. At 11:45 we finally got thru and
got to the plane – We've had lunch, it's 3:30 and I'm ready for a
nap – Big lunch – I've finished my journal now so I'm going to
sleep for awhile. My watch says 3:40 PM – New York is 8 hours
earlier so it's only 7:40AM our time in States – we get to NY at
3PM so it's really confusing, isn't it? We're to arrive in Roanoke
at 9:30 tonight – will really be a long day!</span></p>
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</p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Information and News about Historical Computers, People, Events & Computer Museums </div>David Larsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15992035338072848594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7481558333507842193.post-24461702850997232732022-11-10T14:50:00.000-05:002022-11-10T14:50:02.117-05:00First Trip to Soviet Union 1990 <p> David and Gaynell Travel to the Soviet Union in October 1990 - their first Trip.</p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="30" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://archive.org/embed/SovietUnionOCT19908914" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="500"></iframe> <br />David & Gaynell tell about their first visit to the Soviet Union 1990 in own words<br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="CENTER" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b>Soviet Union Oct. 1990</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Dave:</b></span><span style="font-size: small;"> Hello this is David, David Larsen kk4ww. We’re going to discuss our first trip to the Soviet Union in 1990.</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Gaynell:</b></span><span style="font-size: small;"> And this is Gaynell, kk4www, I’m Dave’s wife and we were very excited about this first trip that we made to the former Soviet Union back in October of 1990.</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Dave:</b></span><span style="font-size: small;"> It started out in April of 1990 we were at the Dayton amateur radio convention called Hamvention and we were there working with Glen Baxter, k1man, who’d had some contact with Victor Goncharsky, ue5we amateur radio station in Ukraine, and we met them at the ham radio convention in April. Glen was saying that they needed somebody to go to the Soviet Union and Ukraine and help. Victor Goncharsky who was on his first visit to the U.S. from Ukraine said yeah David we need somebody to come help us come into the real world of radio because they’d been so suppressed to use the more modern digital technologies and communication techniques in Ukraine. We were using AMTOR and they wanted us to come over and start showing them how to use AMTOR which is a digital mode of communication sent over the amateur radio bands. The Soviet citizens generally up until then had not been allowed to use digital radio communications because it could be a little bit clandestine and of course the Soviets were very concerned about secret communications. They said hey we need somebody to come over and Gaynell and I both said well that sounds really interesting we think we’ll make the trip and so that was short of the story. What can you add to that first meeting we had there with Glen and Victor?</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Gaynell: </b></span><span style="font-size: small;">Well I remember that Glen couldn’t go to the dx dinner and we invited Victor to go. So we left and went and picked him up at the hotel and Dave and Victor and I went to the dx dinner. At the dinner Dave got sick and felt really bad so he got a taxi and went back to our hotel. It was really strange, we had only met Victor like the day before and here I am in Dayton Ohio not familiar with the area but taking a Soviet ham radio operator and getting him back to his hotel and then I drove back to our hotel by myself.</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Dave:</b></span><span style="font-size: small;"> Well as I recall I was just finishing up my year of teaching, I had about another month to go there at Virginia Tech where I was teaching instrumentation and automation. So we got our passports and figured out what we wanted to do and we actually went over in October of 1990. Gaynell was just looking at the photos here and saying she remembered my mother living here.</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Gaynell: </b></span><span style="font-size: small;">Yes Dave’s mother who was 89 at the time in 1989 came to live with us from Texas. Her name was Ruth Larsen and at the time shed been living by herself in an apartment in Texas and was getting to the stage where she really didn’t need to be by herself so Dave and I invited her to come live with us and she did. I went down in 1989 in September and picked her up and brought her back to Floyd and we just had a wonderful year together. Then when we decided after the amateur radio convention in Dayton that we were going to Russia we called Dave’s sister in law out in Colorado and she volunteered to come live in and stay at our house and be with mom Ruth while we were gone. So my mom and dad came up and picked us up and got us to the airport for our flight out.</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Dave: </b></span><span style="font-size: small;">Well at that time (we’re looking at some photos here) we could take four bags, no, three 70 pound bags and we had them all packed up, maybe it was four 70 pound bags each. I see a picture here of Gaynell’s mom and dad and my sister in law when we were getting ready to leave in October. It was quite a short time, very exciting, I don’t remember where we flew out of but we flew into Moscow the only place you could fly into the Soviet Union and then you were dispersed from Moscow. So we flew into Moscow and that was quite an experience because it was our first trip to the Soviet Union. Victor and about five other ham radio fellows met us there at the airport. There weren’t a lot of people traveling to the Soviet Union especially hams. It wasn’t rare but there was not a lot so we were quite a novelty there. The first few days we spent in Moscow before we went over to Ukraine and we did operate some ham radio at a radio operator’s home there in Moscow. He was a district chief of police or something like that for ham radio his call was uk3aap and a very nice gentleman. He was so nice when we left there he gave Gaynell his cap and we still have that in my office it’s a very nice Soviet police officer’s hat.</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Gaynell: </b></span><span style="font-size: small;">Yes it was quite an experience. Dave and I neither one had traveled over in that part of the world and to go and visit with all these Russians of course I was the only girl around with all of them but it was just fascinating. They were so accommodating and when we arrived there in Moscow Victor had already ridden a train for 24 hours from Lviv, or Lvov at that time, from Lvov up to Moscow to meet us. And he met with Urikat Uten who was from down at Uleanovs Russia and also George came up with Victor from Lvov and we just had a wonderful visit there in Moscow. Victor arranged for us to spend the night with some friends that were originally from down in Lvov and they were living in Moscow at the time so we went over and spent the night with them and then caught the train the next day for the 24 hour ride to Lvov Ukraine.</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Dave: </b></span><span style="font-size: small;">Well it was pretty interesting our first trip on a Soviet train. We had many, many train trips after that but when we got to Lvov we were met at the station by Victor’s father, u5wf. We called him ham dad Vlad he was Vladimir Goncharsky. I don’t remember his age at that time but he was a ham during the 30s and served in WWII. He had been a ham, a very famous ham in the Soviet Union and an amateur radio operator. And Victor Valgluten and George Telijank met us and some other people. Victor’s brother Michael, and then I don’t remember exactly what we did then we must have gone over to their home but we had many good visits and we operated some ham radio from there as well. It was so interesting now in 2014 looking back on these photos of 1990. Tell them a little about your visit with Helen and Julia there when we visited with them or anything on the train.</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Gaynell: </b></span><span style="font-size: small;">Yes, well actually Helen and Julia came along with the other guys, ham dad and all to meet us at the train we went back over to the house. Julia at the time was just 4 years old in 1990 so it was just wonderful to get to know her and it was just really unique because everywhere we went that first trip Julia was with us and she held on to my finger the whole time and of course spoke no English and Helen spoke a little bit but very little so after we left that year, Helen told Julia, she said now you need to learn to speak English because Gaynell doesn’t understand Russian and Julia looked and she said oh, Gaynell understands me anyway I don’t need to learn to speak English. So that was a memory that I had from that first trip that stuck with me.</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Dave: </b></span><span style="font-size: small;">Well we had some really wonderful meetings that they arranged for us and the thing looking back on it now, you know we made some of those early trips to foreign countries thinking you know it’d be one trip and we’ll sort of lose track of people but really every trip we made, and we made dozens of trips to many countries and we became very good friends with them. In fact, over the last years since we’ve been, since that 1990 trip I think Victor’s visited the U.S. 4 times. We were not always his host, but we hosted him here in Floyd at the foundation for amateur international radio service at least twice and Helen has been over probably three or four times and we always take them out to the Dayton amateur radio convention and of course we visited them probably, what 15 or 16 times over the 20 years or so there at their home in Lvov. And many things have changed, Helen’s mother has long passed away, of course we met her when we were there the first few times and Victor’s father u5wf has passed away and some of our friends we met have passed away that’s what happens when you get older but we sure had a good time on that visit. I remember one of the first things we did</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Gaynell: </b></span><span style="font-size: small;">Well they put us up at a hotel</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Dave: </b></span><span style="font-size: small;">Yeah I’ll let you tell about that. There was a picture of that hotel I think the Intourist hotel. It was our first and only experience with an Intourist hotel in the Soviet Union. We stayed at another hotel, but it wasn’t quite an Intourist, one time but yea, I’ll make some comments about our stay but I’ll let Gaynell tell about that first Intourist hotel. I do remember this, Victor and Helen they took us to dinner the first night and the food there was not expensive but for them it was very expensive and we didn’t think too much about it at the time but the Intourist hotels were there at that time to keep track of the tourists and also to more or less get as much money from them as they could so their prices were a bit high in terms of Soviet times. Tell a little about that first hotel visit there.</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Gaynell: </b></span><span style="font-size: small;">Oh it was quite unique. We spent the night and I couldn’t figure out why the walls were so thick between the different rooms and then we found out there was a passageway in between these walls and if you’d be lying in bed and look up you’d see little holes around the ceiling where I’m sure they had spies where people could go in there and spy on you. Also our luggage, we went to the meetings the next day and when I came back I realized that our suitcases had all been gone through and so the next day I put a string across some of it and needless to say everything was kind of messed up when we got back. But the really funny thing was the first morning that we went, we never stayed in these hotels very much except this first time, and we went to have breakfast that morning, Dave and I together, and we walked into the quote, Intourist breakfast room, and I saw all these glasses of juice sitting on the tables and we sat down at a table for four and it was just Dave and me, but of course we couldn’t drink the water there and I guess we didn’t have bottled water at the time I’m not sure. But I was so thirsty and I sat down at the table and I drank the first glass of juice and then I reached over and got the second one. Then some people got up and they had left some of their juice in the glasses and the waitress came through and immediately took the little bit of juice in each glass and poured it in another glass at the table so I learned a lot that morning.</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Dave: </b></span><span style="font-size: small;">Well we certainly did but we did enjoy that. I’m remembering now our justification for the trip. Victor and Helen invited us to the Soviet Union, but they couldn’t as private citizens just have visitors, we had to have, or they had to have a reason for us to come so what Victor did was very clever. He arranged for us to teach a workshop with my specialty of computer instrumentation and automation there in Lvov to engineers and my understanding of this is I was probably the first American to do a teaching there in Lvov. Lvov is a very large city in western Ukraine about 7-800-900,000 about 900,000 people and he arranged for us to teach a workshop. That’s one of the reasons we had all those suitcases. It was full of teaching equipment plus it also had one computer in there that we took over for Victor. But we taught the workshop and I remember the first day of the workshop, by the way, Gaynell was talking about those hotels or the hotel room and I remember Victor and Helen saying when we were in the hotel room to not say anything except general conversation because we were being listened to and we were very cautious and paranoid about saying anything. But when I was doing my workshops, the first morning there were three KGB agents at the workshop and I wouldn’t actually have known that but my Ukrainian friends informed me. Then after lunch there was just two and the rest of the time there was only one and so only the one stayed with the whole course to make sure what I said and that I didn’t try to, you know do spy work and so forth and I was told by my guests to not speak about religion or politics to just stick to the topic and I’d be fine. We were followed downtown quite a bit too. Victor was always mentioning it that we were being followed, that was really a new experience for us but the workshop was very successful. They enjoyed it and I learned a little bit later that the workshop was sort of paid for on a local basis by George Sauros who was working hard to use some of his funds to, you know try to help democracy to come about in the Soviet countries. And I didn’t know it at the time that he had put up the money for it but we saw George Sauros at a workshop, I don’t know, 7 or 8 years later in New York, it was New York or Washington DC and I asked Mr. Sauros about that and he remembered that workshop because it was a very unique thing and he remembered funding that so that was certainly interesting. So we thank George Sauros for helping us get to that very first trip. So I remember I mentioned we brought a computer along, and it was an IBM 5100 luggable to run the AMTOR digital communication program and the interesting thing was the last time we were in Lvov, which was 6 or 7 years ago so it would’ve been around 2005 or 2006, that computer was still running. Even though it was highly modified and been repaired many times it was amazing that over a period of over 20 years, that computer was still running. It was just really pleasing to see the use that it got. Of course we took many more computers after that and that’s another story.</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Gaynell: </b></span><span style="font-size: small;">The one thing I wanted to mention was Lvov was (even back in that time and more so now) the water situation was terrible. Of course you couldn’t drink the water at all but in the Intourist hotel even, we only had water certain hours of the day and our water in the hotel only came in at three in the morning. So Dave and I found a piece of rubber and put over the drain and we left the faucet open on the bathtub so that we could actually have some water the next morning and we had what they called a samovar which was a thing you heat water in to make your coffee or your tea so that’s the way we took our baths. We heated our water with the samovar so we’d have warm water for baths.</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Dave: </b></span><span style="font-size: small;">Well see there were a number of things that just seemed to stick out in my mind. First of all I did enjoy the workshop and Victor did the translation for us because most of the engineers that attended could probably read English but they didn’t have a practice of the communication language so they couldn’t understand us too well but it worked fine and we had a lot of fun. Lvov itself is an old Austrian city. Many years ago it was built up. It was a beautiful city; the architecture there is absolutely beautiful but during the Soviet times from 1917 on it was really not kept in a very good state of repair at all. About the only thing that had been repaired was the opera house it had been repaired but the other buildings were still in a pretty bad state of repair. But there were a lot of beautiful, beautiful buildings in Lvov and I remember another incident. We were visiting an electronic manufacturing facility there in Lvov on our first trip and they gave me a rotary calculator. It’s a blue thing with a crank on it and does addition and subtraction and that’s in our museum Bugbook Computer Museum it’s there now and that was our memorabilia piece from our first trip. I remember going to that meeting too. In those days it was a big habit to drink a lot of vodka and that meeting was about ten o clock in the morning and they brought out the vodka and they said we don’t normally have vodka this time of the mornings but we all had to have a few shots of vodka to continue the day. And of course we stayed, well didn’t stay then, but we visited ham dad Vlad and operated amateur radio there in Lvov and just really had a great time with all of that. Oh they did take us to some of the historical museums and so forth and there’s a clock museum, other museums, kind of a nature/ cultural museum with the older style homes and so forth. And in one of the museums, I bought a Ukrainian wedding dress for Gaynell, it was a new one. We also bought some as we went out into the hinterland of the Carpathian Mountains we bought some older clothes but we did buy one very beautiful wedding dress. It was a wedding dress wasn’t it? Yeah, a colorful wedding dress and we have that in our observatory along with the other Ukrainian things we purchased. Looking through the pictures I see they took us out to a castle. I don’t know just where it was in Ukraine, it was quite a ways out of Lvov but it was a very interesting thing. Unfortunately the tour guide spoke in Ukrainian so we had a little trouble with that. We didn’t eat in restaurants much, they would carry food along and we would do picnics. Of course there weren’t a lot of restaurants; quite honestly they were kind of few and far between. Of course I will say one thing, when we were in Moscow, looking at these pictures here, we got to visit red square for the first time and the Kremlin. We didn’t get in the Kremlin but we got to where we could see the Kremlin. McDonald’s was fairly new, I see a photo here too of a McDonald’s there near red square and it was so popular the line (2 or 3 wide) went clear around the block, I mean all the way around. There were hundreds of people waiting in line to get their McDonald’s whatever. Of course, needless to say we didn’t bother waiting in line for that, but that was certainly a new experience for us too. Oh yea looks like the weddings, didn’t they seem to have the weddings on Saturdays? We went to a number of weddings</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Gaynell: </b></span><span style="font-size: small;">They were open to the public</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Dave: </b></span><span style="font-size: small;">Yeah, all the weddings were sort of open to the public. The brides tried to have nice white wedding dresses, gee it was just great. They’re very friendly and I see here too that we visited a number of craft shops and bought a lot of Ukrainian crafts, particularly the wooden eggs that were made primarily up in the Carpathian Mountains. The Ukrainians were and still are noted for their wood art. There are a lot of forests and beautiful wood in Ukraine and a lot of people do carvings and painting of wood. We still have a lot of those and actually we sell, and still sell and we go to meetings like the Dayton Hamvention we’ll sell the Ukrainian crafts and we get new ones as well to sell and help us support our Foundation for Amateur International Radio work at n4usa. Looking at these pictures reminds me of something else too. In those days of course we didn’t have digital cameras, so as I said, Gaynell and I had already been making many trips and during the 90s, the late 80s and the 90s. We made many trips to a lot of countries both for the Foundation for Amateur International Radio Service and for the university, because I did international development helping with the understanding of various universities to set up a student and faculty exchange. We did that in Russia with Uleanis Technical Institute out on the Olga River and down in Ukraine I think we did one with Lvov Polytechnic Institute and I think we did one at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute as well. One thing that was a tradition then, very much a European not just Ukrainian but a European tradition was when your guests arrived, especially the ladies, you give them flowers. I see some nice pictures there with Gaynell holding roses and so forth and that tradition has died down recently especially during the war that’s going on right now at this moment with the Russian folks invading eastern Ukraine. But it was a very big tradition then. We stayed those few days when we were in Moscow, before we went down to Ukraine, with one of Victor’s friends who lived in, I believe it was his granddad’s house, a very old house in a suburb way out, a little bit out of Moscow. But we talk about a suburb, the roads were dirt. There was actually no gravel on the roads in the subdivision. Very primitive and the homes of course were very primitive but we had a good time there with him that’s for sure. And she made some wonderful food. I remember the crepes were just wonderful along with a lot of other things. Yeah she had three young children there, which was fascinating. We were back to Moscow a number of times after that but we sure remember that first visit visiting the Kremlin and downtown Moscow and of course the airport was sort of fascinating in itself and the train rides, 24 hour train ride between Moscow and Lvov a new experience for us. We enjoyed that immensely. Well I guess that kind of wraps up our trip, we’ll make a few kind of final comments about that very first trip. We have some wonderful letters here and notes from our friends written during our first trip and trips after that. One thing Gaynell’s been good about is making a photo album of all our trips so we have dozens of photo albums with, gosh it must be a hundred photos in this one. I was mentioning the photography well we had to take the regular 35 mm cameras with lots of rolls of film and it was very expensive to develop all that film when we got back. We’d usually make 10 to 20 rolls of film on a trip</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Gaynell: </b></span><span style="font-size: small;">Copies of some of them</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Dave: </b></span><span style="font-size: small;">Yeah and then make copies of the pictures. Well all that changed when the digital cameras came out. We could just take all the pictures we wanted and then we’d only have to make copies of the good ones. So the economics of that got good and of course video cameras were a little too expensive for us on those first few trips so we didn’t have video but we certainly have on later trips. Technology’s been a wonderful thing for us. But that first trip was a great experience and it started a whole new world for Gaynell and I of traveling to the former Soviet countries and our friends Helen and Victor Goncharsky.</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Gaynell: </b></span><span style="font-size: small;">And I think the one thing that just stands out with me is the fact that when we first started these trips of course we hadn’t started FAIRS, our foundation, then but we knew that after a couple of trips over there that that was going to be something that we needed. We needed to have a nonprofit status so that we could have more clout going to the governments and things like that and that really paid off. And we thought well you know we’ll go to Russia and we’ll get to meet these people and that’ll be fine but we’ve stayed friends with almost all of the folks that we’ve visited in all of these foreign countries. And Christmas lists are now about 500 instead of 150 or so, so every year we still correspond and try to keep up with all of our friends in these foreign countries.</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Dave: </b></span><span style="font-size: small;">Well you know after that trip we made some publicity about it and then some other people came forward and wanted to travel over there with us and one of those was John Douglas, n0isl, from Minnesota. And John worked for Control Data, I believe that was the name of the company, and we did realize there was a big need for computers at the personal level and again Soviets were starting to let people have computers in their homes but there were very few available. A few fellows started to make home computers but John contacted us about traveling with us and since he worked at that large computer firm they had a lot of small computers and he gathered up 50 or more computers for us to take over there and he was going to go on the next visit to the Ukraine. The next visit was in the spring of ’91, May of ‘91 and we’ll do that visit later but I do want to lead up to it a little bit. When I got the computers together we thought we’d just send them over here for Victor to distribute. Well we couldn’t make any headway to get the computers into the Soviet Union. We tried various things and basically they would not accept them, there was no way. So I wrote a letter to Gorbachev, President Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union, in November of 1990 and told him what I was doing and that we’d had this workshop in Ukraine and we had these computers we wanted to get over there. I’ll have to say, Gorbachev was very good about wanting to get his citizens updated on technology and bring them more into the western world so to speak and also the whole country wanted to be more in line with the modern times. Well I sent that letter to him in November and then in January I was talking to my friend Victor, u5we, on the radio and he asked me, he said David, I understand there’s a letter you wrote circulating around the Kremlin and I replied to him, well yes Victor we did write a letter but I said I don’t think we put anything in it that would get any of us in trouble. It was very general about the computers were trying to donate to the Soviet citizens and particularly the folks there in Ukraine and so Victor told me that he had been asked to come to Moscow for an interview about the Larsens. The Soviet security people wanted to know did we really come and teach this workshop, were we spies you know, were we people that were trying to overthrow the government. All those sorts of things and were we there on just a technology sort of basis. So Victor did go to Moscow as he was invited and he told me he had a round trip ticket and I said well that’s probably a good sign. As a result of those interviews he was able to actually work up an invitation and as I said. By getting the workshop together the second time as well, we taught each time we went over there, the workshops sort of justified all that. But he got all that together and next trip, well to finish the story a little about the computers, a little bit later in the winter I got I letter from dosov I don’t exactly know what that stands for but it’s part of the military that basically controls the amateur radio communication and the letter (which I have it in my files in fact I’ve done a blog on it and printed that on a blog) but the letter basically said well (I’m paraphrasing) due to your letter you wrote to Gorbachev, we’ve been instructed to help get these computers into the Soviet Union. My understanding was that the letter circulated around the various bureau agencies and they decided it was probably a good thing to let us bring those computers into the Soviet Union. So we were told that if we contacted Aeroflot in New York, they would send the computers to Moscow and of course they were not cooperative for a while and after a few correspondents back and forth we did ship the computers to Moscow and they kept them in quarantine until John Douglas and Gaynell and I went over and that’ll be another story for our next trip about how we distributed those computers. Well I think once again that wraps it up for the first trip, October 1990, to the former Soviet Union it was a fascinating trip and we’ll continue this discussion with our second trip in May of 1991.</span></div><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Information and News about Historical Computers, People, Events & Computer Museums </div>David Larsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15992035338072848594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7481558333507842193.post-5707129268616237132022-02-23T11:50:00.006-05:002022-02-23T15:43:52.389-05:00N4USA David creator of this blog is back for more postings.<p> Hi - It has been a long time ago to my last post here at the Bugbook Computer Museum Blog and I hope to do some updating for my readers and followers. I would like to hear from those interested in the history of microcomputers and the work we have been doing here for the past 73 years . It was 73 years ago that I attended the Remington Rand school for the Unvac computer.</p><p>Take a look here at where I started with computes in 1957. WOW</p><p><a href="http://www.bugbookmuseum.blogspot.com/search?q=remington+rand+6" target="_blank">See info on Remington Rand Univac - David 1957</a></p><p>"David Larsen" <a href="http://www.kk4ww.com" target="_blank">Davids 68 years of Ham Radio</a></p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Information and News about Historical Computers, People, Events & Computer Museums </div>David Larsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15992035338072848594noreply@blogger.com0Floyd, VA 24091, USA36.9112443 -80.32005028.6010104638211544 -115.4763002 65.221478136178845 -45.1638002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7481558333507842193.post-61506703945378606952020-10-20T15:40:00.001-04:002020-10-20T15:40:57.394-04:00Intel 8008 Microprocessor began as a 'Computer Terminal Corporation 2200" - an Electronic Data Terminal<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The first 8 bit Intel microprocessor -the 8008 was the result of designing the Computer Terminal Corporation "CTC 2200" logic into a single chip. The CTC2200 was a successful project to design an electronic version of the 'workhorse' Teletype data terminal of the 60/70s - the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype_Model_33" target="_blank">Teletype</a> was an all mechanical communications terminal with hundreds of gears and levers. . CTC contracted Intel to design a microprocessor however the process was slow and CTC did not use the design.The result was Intel had its first 8 bit microprocessor (8008). <i><span style="color: red;"> <b>See short story about the interesting origin of the 8008 at the end of this post.</b></span></i><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">We are fortunate to have this CTC 2200 in our computer collection and on display in<a href="http://museumqr.blogspot.com/2014/04/audio-introduction-to-bugbook.html" target="_blank"> the museum</a>.</span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">CTC's TTL-based desktop personal computer, called the Datapoint 2200, was unveiled in 1970, with cassette tapes for 130KB of mass storage and 8K of internal memory.</span></span><br />
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The design includes about 100 small scale integrated circuits along with discrete components- transistors - resistors -diodes and capacitors. In this photo you can see 4 printed circuit boards under the display and in back of the keyboard. Their are 4 printed circuit boards under the tape deck area and 4 memory boards next to the CRT display.<br />
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The unit was designed to fit in the same area as an IBM Selectric Typewriter. This did not give much room and the unit is packed with cards and circuits.<br />
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Here you see the large heat sink on the back of the terminal. It is heavy and weighs about 40 lbs.<br />
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The 4 memory cards each contain 4Kb of RAM for a total of 16 Kb. The CTC2200 machines with 16Kb sold for $16,000.<br />
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The unit had <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">2 read-write cassette decks for 130KB of mass storage.</span><br />
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A view of the high voltage for the CRT and Memory area.<br />
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The only serial number I have found so far is 498 on the corner of this card.<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b><i>Here is some great research about the first microprocessor - Ken Shirriff's <a href="http://www.righto.com/2015/05/the-texas-instruments-tmx-1795-first.html" target="_blank">Blog</a> </i></b></span><br />
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<u><b><span style="color: blue;">Short story about the origin of the Intel 8008 microprocessor.</span></b></u><br />
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The Teletype was the communications terminal used from the late 50's until in the 80s - first as a data terminal connected to the telephone system with a modem. It was used to send messages to users and mostly for sending and receiving telegrams. Later the Teletype was used for a minicomputer printer and paper tape punch to store the data. Long distant voice calling were so expensive and unreliable it was rarely used in the 50's and 60s'. <br />
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The Teletype was a totally mechanical device that could decode 8 bit data strings - ASCII code - and print all capital letters on paper & also punch paper tape for permanent Storage of the data. The Teletype could also read the paper tape and convert the code into the 8 bit serial ASCII data for transmitting over a telephone line using a modem. The word Byte for 8 bits of data most likely came from this sending and receiving alphabetic characters as 8 bits of data. <br />
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The Teletype was a great invention however it was a mechanical monster with 100's of cams and levers that could and failed often. It was a mechanical device and very noisy & distracting in and office.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the end of 1960's, 2 graduates at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, Harry Pyle and Victor D. Poor, came up with the idea of a high density integrated circuit which would be programmable</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: justify;">.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"> Harry and Victors ideas were used to create the logic of the CTC2200 and this became the code for the 8008 microprocessor.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"> </span>When transistors and more importantly integrated circuits became available and all electronic version of the Teletype became possible.<br />
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The Computer Terminal Corporation produced an electronic replacement for the Teletype the "CTC 2200". The CTC 2200 was actually programmable terminal using a custom designed 8 bit computer. The computer was made from discrete components and and small scale integrated circuits. Microprocessors had not been designed in the late 60's when the CTC2200 was developed.<br />
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The engineers at CTC did have the idea to put the computer logic they had designed into the CTC2200 on a single chip - making a microprocessor. A design team went to Intel to have them design and make a microprocessor using the logic in the CTC2200. Robert Noyce of Intel when approached with this project did not like the idea as he thought a computer on a chip would hurt the memory chip market of Intel by competing with computer makers using the Intel memory chips. However Robert Noyce did agree to make the chip for $50,000.<br />
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The CTC engineers also went to Texas Instruments and ask them to make the same chip to be sure they had a backup source. The Texas Instrument chip did not function properly and was not used. The Intel chip was a long time in development. The CTC team decided to just build the 2200 terminal with there current design of about 100 small scale integrated circuits and give up the rights to the intellectual property rights for the Intel microprocessor design --and did not pay the $50,000 to Intel. Giving up the intellectual rights to the microprocessor is among the worst business decisions ever. <br />
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Intel went ahead with the full development of the microprocessor and called it the 8008. The microprocessor used the same digital logic and operational software codes as CTC2200 .<br />
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The computer logic in the CTC2200 then was an original 8 bit computer that used the 8008 software code and was the beginning of 8 bit computers (8008 microprocessor) for Intel.<br />
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Here are some links to more complete stories of the CTC2200 / Intel story. Some of the information I used came from these references.<br />
<a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9111341/Forgotten_PC_history_The_true_origins_of_the_personal_computer" target="_blank">Computer World </a><br />
<a href="http://history-computer.com/ModernComputer/Personal/Datapoint.html" target="_blank">History of Computers</a><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.alanweinkrantz.com/san-antonio-has-claim-as-the-birthplace-of-the-personal-computer-read-all-about-it/" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; color: #747474; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #111111;">San Antonio "</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #747474; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #111111;">Express-News"</span></span></span></a></span><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datapoint_2200" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><i><b>Their is a lot more to this very interesting story of how the first Intel 8 bit 8008 microprocessor came about - <a href="http://bugbookmuseum.blogspot.com/2014/06/vintage-computers-datapoint-2200.html" target="_blank">here is the REST of the STORY </a></b></i></span><br />
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I remember for many years I did not think I would find a CTC2200 and wanted to have one for it is one of the first programmable microcomputers. During the late 80's I was able to find not only this fine example and the source also had a model the CTC1100. The CTC 2200 and 1100 now are part of the "Bugbook Historical Microcomputer Collection"</div>
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The Intel <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPROM" target="_blank">1702A EPROM</a> (1971) has only 256 bytes of memory - today the USB Flash drive has 1 Terabyte of memory --- that is an incredible <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;">4,000,000,000,000</span> times more memory.</span> This is a number so large I just can not sort it out in my mind. </div>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Moore's law</a><b> seems to be working after 56 years. Gordon Moore made the observation and prediction in 1965 that the density of components on a silicon chip would double every 2 years. </b></div>
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<b><br /></b><b><br /></b><b><span style="color: red;">The USB Flash drive to the left has 1 Terabyte of memory.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red;">That is 1000 Gigabytes.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="color: red;">It would take 125,000,000,000 of the Intel C-2708 Chips to equal this amount of memory. A really big change in 56 years of technology. This 1 Terabyte USB flash drive cost $39.00.</span></b> <b><br /></b></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Please note the Intel C-2708 has 125 times more memory than the Intel 1702 EPROM at the top of page. </span></div>
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<b> A project to make presentation </b><b>displays for </b><br />
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I have 359 of these really nice Intel 2708<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPROM" target="_blank"> EPROM</a> chips purchased in 1987. These chips are all nice white ceramic with gold pins and gold tops. They are part of my 45 years of collecting microcomputer memorabilia. </div>
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What I want to do is make a presentation case/display for use as example of this early microcomputer and memory technology. </div>
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Curious about EPROM memories - take a look here at a my blog post about the very first EPROM - the Intel 1702A - Get an idea of how and why they were used. <a href="https://bugbookmuseum.blogspot.com/2015/06/eprom-erasable-programmable-read-only.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: red;">"CLICK"</span></b></a></div>
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A small Raspberry pie microcomputer can be included to provide many photos/videos and text that could be picked up on a smart phone using Bluetooth/WiFi connection. The unit could be connected to the internet with WiFi and linked to selected information on line about the history of microcomputers.</div>
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The use of these EPROMs is nice because the quartz window allowing a view of the IC chip. You should know the window was not put there for you to look into the IC - the window allows the memory to be erased by exposing the chip to UV light.</div>
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It would be very nice to include a way to see into the window on the 2708 and get some idea what the actual silicon chip looks like. This could be a magnifying glass or maybe a photo of the chip would be best. Of course with the smart part of the presentation case just a view of the proper web site may be best way to obtain more information.</div>
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More information about EPROM memories -<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKk7fVIZPE4" target="_blank"> here is my video of the 1702 <span style="color: red;">the very first EPROM chip</span>.</a> You will find this interesting. </div>
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<b><i>To build and market a beautiful small presentation case about microcomputer technology - most likely out of wood that could be on the desk or appropriate space on the wall. The unit could be just a nice piece on the desk of those who have an interest in microcomputer history or are currently involved in the technology. It would be a great conversation piece with the smart technology to bone up on the history of microelectronic technology and a real piece of history included - the Intel 2708 EPROM.</i> </b></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Information and News about Historical Computers, People, Events & Computer Museums </div>David Larsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15992035338072848594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7481558333507842193.post-19963809594715048502020-06-07T15:19:00.002-04:002023-07-23T17:47:03.159-04:00EPROM Antique Memory Chip -- Intel C-2708 <div style="text-align: center;">
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I have 359 of these really nice Intel 2708<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPROM" target="_blank"> EPROM</a> chips purchased in 1987. This chips are all nice white ceramic with gold pins and gold tops. They are part of my 45 years of collecting microcomputer memorabilia. </div>
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What I want to do is make a presentation case/display for use as example of this early microcomputer and memory technology. </div>
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Curious about EPROM memories - take a look here at a my blog post about the very first EPROM - the Intel 1702A - Get an idea of how and why they were used. <a href="https://bugbookmuseum.blogspot.com/2015/06/eprom-erasable-programmable-read-only.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: red;">"CLICK"</span></b></a></div>
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A<b><span style="color: red;"> Smart display/presentation</span></b> case is easily possible.</div>
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A small pic microcomputer can be included to provide many photos/videos and text that could be picked up on a smart phone using Bluetooth/WiFi connection. The unit could be connected to the internet with WiFi and linked to selected information on line about the history of microcomputers.</div>
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The use of these EPROMs is nice because the quartz window allowing a view of the IC chip. You should know the window was not put there for you to look into the IC - the window allows the memory to be erased by exposing the chip to UV light.<br />
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It would be very nice to include a way to see into the window on the 2708 and get some idea what the actual silicon chip looks like. This could be a magnifying glass or maybe a photo of the chip would be best. Of course with the smart part of the presentation case just a view of the proper web site may be best way to obtain more information.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bottom side of 2708 EPROM<br />
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All my IC chips have a 1977 date code of manufacture.</div>
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More information about EPROM memories -<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKk7fVIZPE4" target="_blank"> here is my video of the 1702 <span style="color: red;">the very first EPROM chip</span>.</a> You will find this interesting. </div>
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<b><i>To build and market a beautiful small presentation case about microcomputer technology - most likely out of wood that could be on the desk or appropriate space on the wall. The unit could be just a nice piece on the desk of those who have an interest in microcomputer history or are currently involved in the technology. It would be a great conversation piece with the smart technology to bone up on the history of microelectronic technology and a real piece of history included - the Intel 2708 EPROM.</i> </b></div>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Moore's law</a><b> seems to be working after 56 years. Gordon Moore made the observation and prediction in 1965 that the density of components on a silicon chip would double every 2 years. </b><br />
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<b><br /></b><b><span style="color: red;">The USB Flash drive to the left is a 1 Terabyte of memory.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: red;">That is 1000 Gigabytes.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">It would take 125,000,000,000 of the Intel C-2708 Chips to equal this amount of memory. A really big change in 56 years of technology. This 1 Terabyte USB flash drive cost $39.00.</span></b>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Information and News about Historical Computers, People, Events & Computer Museums </div>David Larsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15992035338072848594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7481558333507842193.post-44724048900267470052020-05-23T13:57:00.000-04:002020-06-07T10:20:42.650-04:00Computer Collector and Historians Resource Hub <div style="text-align: center;">
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I have listed "Computer Collector and Historical Information" collected and used during the past 12 years used in producing Videos and Writing Blog post. Blog post & videos cover several topics of my interest including, historical computers, amateur radio, land for sale by owner, tiny homes and Chantilly Farm. I have been involved with digital computers for the past 63 years. It all started with my attending a <a href="https://bugbookmuseum.blogspot.com/2013/11/remington-rand-univac-1957-my.html" target="_blank">training class at Remington Rand Computer Corporation</a> in St. Paul Minnesota in 1957. Teaching<a href="https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/vtpubs/spectrum/sp950406/5b.html" target="_blank"> "Electronic Instrumentation and Automation"</a> for 33 years at Virginia Tech and collecting microcomputers for more than 45 years . You will find more than 200 web sites in the links below. I hope you find this information useful - have fun.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.chantillyfarm.com/" target="_blank">Chantilly Farm Floyd Virginia</a> - </span>has a Geo-Cache ready for your hunt. </div>
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This is a sport just made for a time like this when we can not gather in large crowds and need to keep a social distance. Our Cache is named "Tilly's Trace" after a wild Bob White Quail who became a friend of our venue and for several years would follow our staff outside like a good buddy.<br />
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There are about 500,000 locations in the US - one will be near you - some in exotic places.<br />
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There are 11 within 10 miles of Chantilly Farm. This is a sport that may be available in your neighborhood.<br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;">What is Geocaching:</span><br />
Wikipedia: <b style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">Geocaching</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">is an outdoor recreational activity, in which participants use a</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif;" title="Global Positioning System">Global Positioning System</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">(GPS)</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;"> </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_navigation_device" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif;" title="GPS navigation device">receiver</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">or</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_device" style="background-image: none; color: #faa700; font-family: sans-serif;" title="">mobile device</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called "geocaches" or "caches", at specific locations marked by</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinate_system" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif;" title="Coordinate system">coordinates</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">all over the world.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocaching#cite_note-2" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[2]</a></sup><br />
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A typical cache is a small waterproof container containing a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logbook" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Logbook">logbook</a> and sometimes a pen or pencil. The geocacher signs the log with their established code name and dates it, in order to prove that they found the cache. After signing the log, the cache must be placed back exactly where the person found it.</div>
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1. Go to <a href="http://geocaching.com/">geocaching.com</a> and sign up by loading the official geocaching app.There you will find all you need to get started and be a GeoCache-hunter.<br />
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<span style="color: #222222;">3. To find our Geocahe just search cache location </span><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Chantilly Farm Floyd Virginia</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.87); font-family: "roboto" , "noto" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">A brand new Southwest VA geocaching adventure at Chantilly Farm you can embark on! Find the cache located on the farm and write your name in the log book! We hope you have fun and good luck searching!
This cache is in the heart of Southwest VA, surrounded by the stunning nature that makes this region so beautiful. Walk down this beautiful bird-watching trail and enjoy the sights and sounds of the outdoors! This trail is the home of Tilly, a beautiful and rare grouse that can be seen and heard while enjoying this short nature walk. This is a fairly easy cache to find with lots of great views, so have fun and enjoy! Note: This cache IS on private property, but geocachers have permission to be present. Have fun and good luck</span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Information and News about Historical Computers, People, Events & Computer Museums </div>David Larsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15992035338072848594noreply@blogger.com0Chantilly Festival Farm and RV Campground, 2697 Franklin Pike SE, Floyd, VA 24091, USA36.9328446 -80.225837211.410807600000002 -121.5344337 62.454881600000007 -38.9172407tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7481558333507842193.post-35244854550296353372020-04-18T14:44:00.001-04:002020-04-19T12:02:47.754-04:00Tiny house - Shipping Container Office and Commerce building<div style="text-align: center;">
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Roseau, Dominica the <a href="https://www.dominicaisland.org/the_nature_island_of_the_caribbean/" target="_blank">"Nature Island of the Caribbean"</a><br />
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During our <a href="https://bugbookmuseum.blogspot.com/2020/02/emergency-communications-center.html" target="_blank">"Ham Radio Mission" </a>to Dominica we visited a very interesting application of using Shipping Containers to make a small commercial building in the capital Roseau. The design and construction was really excellent. It looked a little out of place along the old buildings on main street. It has a great little coffee shop in one corner. The coffee was good and the price very reasonable.<br />
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The coffee shop is tucked into about 1/3 of a 20 foot container at ground level. The building is constructed from 3 containers.<br />
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The interior of the shop is small but well equipped. The shop also is a wine shop so you have lots of choices.<br />
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The menu is in Caribbean $. About 40 cents in US currency. You can get in town delivery for about 80 cents US.<br />
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You can see here a clever idea - the top container extends over the coffee shop and provides the roof area. A small garden and seating area is built in front of the coffee shop.<br />
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The other sections of the are small rental office spaces and a small conference room. It looked like about 6 offices were available and all done very nicely with A/C. You do not need heat on this beautiful Caribbean Island.<br />
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Looking back at the coffee shop where you can see the top container being used as roof for front of the shop.<br />
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The railing you see over the container is where a small outdoor seating area was made with a roof overhead to be used by the tenants and their guests.<br />
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The deck and seating area described with the photo above. It is nice with room for a dozen or so people. This also provides the access for the 3 offices on this level.<br />
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The whole country of Dominica is small 15x30 miles in size with a population of about 65,000. The capital Roseau has 15,000 people.<br />
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Look carefully and you will see a typical Dominica tiny house just over the roof of the while auto. The streets are very narrow and with autos parked on both sides there is barely room for one car to drive down the street. Look closely and you will see the ocean at the end of the street.<br />
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The island is still recovering from hurricane Maria in 2017.<br />
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We have visited the island 32 times in the past 23 years. Our purpose has been to help with Disaster preparedness communications.<br />
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<span style="color: red;">Video of Downtown Roseau <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P24MCQQs7OI&list=PLD0B3883611363342&index=2&t=0s" target="_blank">"CLICK"</a></span><br />
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The island is a mix of old and new buildings. The island historically over the past 300 or so years was dominated back and forth by the French and British. Most recently it was a a British Colony and the dominate language is English.<br />
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In this photo you can see some of the<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobblestone" target="_blank"> cobblestone</a> sidewalk that has been in place for hundreds of years.<br />
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<a href="https://www.dominicaisland.org/the_nature_island_of_the_caribbean/" target="_blank">Dominica is the nature island</a> of the Caribbean and has many beautiful water falls, hiking trails, hot sulfur spring bath pools & great Caribbean food - my favorite food!<br />
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You can see in the photo a cruse ship in port at Roseau. The ships make a 9 hour day stop, however, they are an important source of income for the island folks.<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Information and News about Historical Computers, People, Events & Computer Museums </div>David Larsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15992035338072848594noreply@blogger.com0Roseau, Dominica15.3091676 -61.37935539999998715.2785366 -61.419695899999986 15.3397986 -61.339014899999988tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7481558333507842193.post-64891599228611206752020-04-14T12:10:00.001-04:002020-04-15T11:32:45.735-04:00Amateur Radio SOTA - Frontier-women YO6EVA conquers Summits<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">
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<b>Heather Holland ZS6YE sent me a very interesting a copy of the "yl.beam #81 April 2020" a few days ago.</b><b>It had a very fascinating story about a YL doing SOTA "Summits on the Air" activity. It was interesting to me because I have had an interest in SOTA and my wife is an active YL ham - Gaynell Larsen KK4WWW. This is just a part of the full newletter - Thank you Heather ZS6YE</b></div>
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I think you will agree with me the Story of YO6EVA and her SOTA work is facinating. DAVID KK4WW - <b>ENJOY THE READ </b><br />
If you are not familiar with <a href="https://www.sota.org.uk/" target="_blank">"Summits on the Air" SOTO</a> you may find a new part of the ham hobby you will want join.<br />
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<b>Frontier-women conquers Summits</b></div>
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Women usually go to the hairdresser, go shopping, and usually do "feminine" things when they have time off. Éva Gajdó, a teacher of computer science at Tivadar Puskás Vocational High School, who teaches programming on CNC (computer-controlled) machines, does not like this. She climbs mountains. And up there on the summit, she transmits radio signals. It may seem a strange combination at first, but it is recognised as a sport. Established for less than a decade and a half, it is already gaining in popularity and Éva Gajdó has accomplished something very big in this sport in a short time. Her success is the envy of her fellow men, which as she is a Szekler, does not often happen. <i>(The Székelys derive their name from a Hungarian expression meaning "frontier guards".)</i><br />
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Éva Gajdó has been roaming the mountains since she was a child. She became a true lover of climbing when one of her teachers took her on an expedition. Then life sank into the ordinary course of events: she got married, the children came and there was little opportunity to conquer the peaks.<br />
Several years ago however, talking about childhood dreams with a group of friends, Eve recalled that when she was sixteen, she was determined to climb Mont Blanc. But it seemed it would remain just a dream. Then, a few days later, a friend told her that the Szeklers were hiring amateur climbers and heading to Mont Blanc.<br />
"I didn't think, I called Tulit Sombor, and applied," says Eve.<br />
Two months of tough training was unsurpringingly not enough to qualify for the team. She also found her gear was unsuitable. She hiked in velvet pants and her ancient boots caused problems; the two months were agonizing. But Sombor reassured her that she had all the skills and with a little training, could climb Mont Blanc. It became a passion and she has not missed a weekend in five years and even celebrated New Year's Eve on top of a mountain.<br />
She applied for another expedition, but unfortunately before her departure she sprained an ankle. She was able to climb this year, but couldn't use the radio.<br />
In order to understand why Eve should have been broadcasting radio signals from the highest peak in the Alps and what activation means we need to introduce the sport called SOTA.<br />
The acronym comes from 'Summits on the Air', this radio competition was launched in 2002 by radio amateurs who combined there passion with mountaineering.<br />
The competition consists of climbing the designated peaks - at least 150 meters above its surroundings - by hiking, and from the 'summit' the hiker must establish at least four radio links with other radio amateurs around the world (meaning activation).<br />
The peaks score between 1 and 10 according to their height and can be activated once per year. The map provided by NASA to radio-operators in Romania has about two hundred SOTA peaks, of which 250-300 can be climbed under normal conditions, ie on a more or less well-marked path. A walkie-talkie can achieve the necessary score if it is successfully activated, that is, it has been climbed and a minimum of four mandatory contacts made. After earning a thousand points, the title 'Mountain Goat' and trophy will be awarded to the competitor. Achieving a thousand points usually takes several years to complete. Eva did a special job here too.<br />
Eve met a man in Jezer (Bosnia and Herzegovina) on a hike, while trying to establish a radio connection at the summit. He was interested in the subject, because there is a radio club at Puskás Tivadar Vocational School, Budapest, and he was wondering how to create something new and interesting for the students. At that time, he had no plans to start radioing himself, or that hiking would become a competitive climb. He asked a teacher at Transilvania University in Brasov, Csaba-Zoltán Kertész, if he would come and introduce SOTA to the children.<br />
Since January last year, Csaba has gone to St. George every Tuesday, trying to infect students with the radio virus. Because amateur-radio amateur is well-suited to the younger generation, SOTA is becoming more and more popular, including foxhunting, but knowing the basics of radio is essential.<br />
Eve had no childhood dream of becoming a radio amateur but her dedication to teaching led her there. Csaba Kertész enthusiastic for the Tuesday afternoon classes included taking the students on several trips, where they could experience "live" what walking radio was about.<br />
Eva thought that if Csaba couldn't come for some reason, it would be a good idea if someone could take care of the children. But to do that she needed a radio license.<br />
- You have to take a very tough exam: electronics, knowledge of frequencies, first aid. You have to learn the phonetic alphabet that is used in radio, to know what phrases can be heard and what are not, so there are ethical rules as well. She passed and received her radio callsign: YO6EVA. <br />
(YO = Romania ID, 6 represents the area, and EVA unique, individual)<br />
I'll do it in a year<br />
- As I had passed my exam, I went with Csaba to a SOTA marathon. It was staged in the Bihari Mountains, Romania, and was worth exactly one thousand (1000) points for someone who had done it for six or seven years. I told Csaba, as I go to the mountains, I could earn a thousand points in a year.<br />
In the beginning it was really hard because I didn't know anything about radio, I didn't have any equipment, I borrowed a walkie-talkie, which had only 300 meters range I went up the mountain and couldn't activate it. I persuaded Csaba to come with me to collect points, but the points accumulated very slowly. Finally, I bought a serious radio, and then the "party" started.<br />
- Has a thousand points been reached in one year?<br />
- Not easily, but it was. I went to Nagykő (Transylvania, Romania) alone and for the first time spoke on the radio and I was so scared I switched it off. There was bad weather at Nagyhagymás, I went up four times, but never activated it; in minus ten (-10) degrees activating radio was not a lot of fun. Disappointed I told Csaba it wouldn't work for me, but with the support of friends, somehow I hung on and continued. The biggest challenge was to get to the summits that I would not have gone to otherwise, I had to cut through a sign or path like in the jungle. Finally a thousand points were reached, 131 different peaks in a year.<br />
- 131 peaks in a year, one average every three days.<br />
- Most were the four eight-point peaks in a single day, 40 kilometers of walking at 3500 meters.<br />
What's next?<br />
With her unique performance, Eve has earned the envy of many of the male walkie-talkie operators, She reached a thousand points in May - since then, the number of activations in Romania has increased, with another SOTA marathon being organized by December 1, interest in the sport has revived..<br />
Although Eve has achieved what she set herself to do, she does not intend to stop walking but not as intense as before. Also because all of the closest peaks have been activated and new ones are usually a two-day hike away - She would like to climb the highest peaks in Europe, but she would need to take another license before she could broadcast abroad.<br />
Eve talks enthusiastically about everything, but when it comes to the mountains, her eyes shine the most. What does mountain climbing, mean to her?<br />
- Its an obsession with me, an addiction. The mountain has given me so much, I try to pass that on to the students. Everything revolves around the mountain, I don't go to the beautician or to the shops, and my daughter says you have seven pairs of hiking pants, but you just don't have anything to go to school. SOTA has exposed a whole new side of climbing and fox hunting.<br />
Author: Péter Váry O. Publication date: 2018-12-29<br />
Háromszék (Romanian publication in Hungarian) Saturday, December 29, 2018, Report<br />
Szekler at the summit <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.3szek.ro/load/cikk/119391/szekely-a-csucson&source=gmail&ust=1586808085897000&usg=AFQjCNFDQJU59FBFmyHN2f3otcODpKo3OA" href="https://www.3szek.ro/load/cikk/119391/szekely-a-csucson" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.3szek.ro/<wbr></wbr>load/cikk/119391/szekely-a-<wbr></wbr>csucson</a> </div>
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The YO SOTA Marathon is a mountain hiking and amateur radio event that takes place every year in the beautiful Carpathian mountains of Romania, being supported by the “Romania’s Radioclub” Association (ARR). The purpose is to operate radio equipment from mountain tops in the Summits On The Air award scheme, and is open to anyone interested in amateur radio. It lasts about a week (during August) and presents the chance to gather a large number of points in the award scheme.<br />
<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://qrpblog.com/yo-sota-marathon/&source=gmail&ust=1586808085897000&usg=AFQjCNHwXZeNlTaIM_IfGDagx5o9c8WrUw" href="https://qrpblog.com/yo-sota-marathon/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://qrpblog.com/yo-sota-<wbr></wbr>marathon/</a><br />
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<b>1st YL Mountain Goat in Romania.</b><br />
YO6EVA Eva Kelemen Gajdo reached a thousand points in May 2018 becoming the first YL Mountain Goat in Romania. An admirable achievement, showing great dedication and a nice example to follow. What is truly amazing, that she achieved this goal in just under a year after obtaining her HAM license, learning all about what it takes to operate a radio while hiking around the summits of Romania, whatever the conditions or difficulties. Hail, the rain, bad propagation could not deter her in achieving her target.<br />
<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://reflector.sota.org.uk/t/eva-yo6eva-newest-mountain-goat-in-romania/17546&source=gmail&ust=1586808085897000&usg=AFQjCNF845O8a0-Cdz5f9xL0LOA4CmWQAA" href="https://reflector.sota.org.uk/t/eva-yo6eva-newest-mountain-goat-in-romania/17546" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://reflector.sota.org.uk/<wbr></wbr>t/eva-yo6eva-newest-mountain-<wbr></wbr>goat-in-romania/17546</a> May '18<br />
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<b>Summits on the Air (SOTA) Background Information:</b><br />
It is a fun and challenging activity for Radio Amateurs and shortwave listeners that encourages portable operation in mountainous areas. SOTA has been designed to make participation possible for everyone – you don’t have to be a mountaineer! There are awards for activators (those who hike to the summits) and chasers (those who operate from home, a local hilltop, or another summit). There are no fees and you can participate on your own schedule. More info: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.sota.org.uk/&source=gmail&ust=1586808085897000&usg=AFQjCNGCzLWOMqhWVeFREuDA86oZZ9EvVw" href="https://www.sota.org.uk/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.sota.org.uk</a> </div>
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<b>Romanian yl Éva YO6EVA active on Argentina Mountain</b></div>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pollux76" target="_blank">Éva Gajdó YO6EVA </a>and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/csabazoltan.kertesz" target="_blank">Csaba-Zoltán Kertész YO6PIB </a> came to climb and activate Aconcagua during the first two weeks of January 2020. Aconcagua (LUM/PH-001) is the highest summit in the SOTA programme, altitude.6960m. However they could not reach the summit due to very high winds. They began their descent as per schedule feeling very disappointed, especially regarding the Mendoza radioclub friends who had supported the expedition, prepared to 'chase' (on air) and even to make 'summit-to-summit' contacts. They made 2 attemps and spent 3 nights at over 6000m.</div>
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On their arrival back in Mendoza, Eva and Csabone had one day left before catching their plane home to Romania. Tthe Argentina SOTA group was also disappointed and it was decided to activate another summit where they could communicate in VHF and HF as originally planned.</div>
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The route was chosen so that Eva and Csaba could enjoy seeing animals from the local Villavicencio reserve, mostly guanacos.Tthe group was also lucky enough to see several condors flying over the activated peak in the Paramillos area.</div>
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The group were surprised by the number of active stations that made contact. Many operators were keen to communicate their enthusiasm at contacting the visitors and to wish them a safe journey back to Romania. Unfortunately propagation conditions for HF were not good, although some contacts were achieved.</div>
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The Argentinas were happy that Eva and Csaba had managed to activate an Argentine summit and although it was not Aconcagua, that they had enjoyed the local hositality of Mendoza.</div>
<span style="color: #222222;"> LUM/PC-004, Paramillos 3356m This peak is not well known and does not have a name, near Termas Villavicencio, Mendoza (Argentina) Value 8 SOTA points,</span><b><span style="color: red;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxC0kf5kIGk&list=PLC83006C2E2099B86&index=4&t=46s" target="_blank">YouTube</a> </span></b><span style="color: #222222;">by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pollux76" target="_blank">LU1MAW Alejandro Ciro Weber</a></span><br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Information and News about Historical Computers, People, Events & Computer Museums </div>David Larsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15992035338072848594noreply@blogger.com0Ozun, Romania45.7908756 25.889419545.6137481 25.566696 45.9680031 26.212142999999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7481558333507842193.post-48205287349695810302020-03-29T14:02:00.000-04:002020-04-24T16:10:09.056-04:00Mitts Altair 8800 Microcomputer started a wonderful friendship<div style="text-align: center;">
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This Altair - one of several dozen in my "Bugbook Histroical Microcomputer Collection" has many stories to tell. One is John's visit last Sunday 3/8/20 to fly down from Philadelphia in his private plane and have breakfast with my wife Gaynell and I. one more story is the day he picked up the Altair 8800 in 2015. Many more however in this blog I will discuss these two.</div>
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John told me he would meet at 8:30 AM and he landed at 8:31- great timing into the Blacksburg/Montgomery airport on the Virginia Tech Campus.</div>
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That is John and Gaynell in photo to left just after touchdown. We had delightful conversation during breakfast at the <a href="https://www.innatvirginiatech.com/?&utm_source=GoogleMyBusiness&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=GMB&utm_term=invt" target="_blank">Inn at Virginia Tech</a>.</div>
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<b>This video really tells the story of John picking up the<span style="color: red;"> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYdsAZ4jc0Y%20--" target="_blank">Altair 8800 in 2015. Interesting "CLICK"</a></span></b></div>
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This Altair 8800 SN414 was probably in the first or second production run. Ed Robert the Founder of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_8800" target="_blank">MITS company</a> expected about 500 orders for his computer and was inundated with 5000 orders the first month. This is a very low serial number and a valuable microcomputer.</div>
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The earliest Altair 8800 in my collection was SN 21. I purchased this 8800 from a fellow that was one of the dozens that drove down to <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">Albuquerque, New Mexico and waited in the parking lot of the MITS companty to get there Altair first before shipments began. <a href="http://bugbookmuseum.blogspot.com/2019/08/computer-museum-of-america-grand.html" target="_blank">Altair 8800 SN21 is now located at the "Computer Museum of America" </a> in Roswell GA along with the other 13,000 items in my historical </span><span style="color: #222222;">microcomputer</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"> collection.</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://bugbookmuseum.blogspot.com/2015/09/mits-altair-8800-sn414-microcomputer_6.html" target="_blank">Here is a blog</a> </span>about the <span style="color: red;">Altair 8800</span> SN414 and John's 1995 visit.</b> </div>
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John describes his visit to the Computer Museum in his own words 1995<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="140" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://archive.org/embed/MITSAltari8800JohnSimkiss" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="500"></iframe></div>
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Just received (3/30/20) this photo from John - photo he made of the Chicago Skyline on flight to pick up one of his family members. Nice to have your own plane at this time with conoronvirus restrictions on commercial air travel. Great view.<br />
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Collecting historical microcomputers for more than 45 years and teaching about "Computers and Instrumentation " for 33 years at Virginia Tech has been the<a href="https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/vtpubs/spectrum/volume17/sp950406/5b.html" target="_blank"> experience of a lifetime</a>. Many I have had many great times and met wonderful people during this time. You can see a few of the stories on my <a href="https://bugbookmuseum.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_31.html" target="_blank"><b>Blog Site</b></a>.<br />
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The amateur radio operators in Dominica provided critical Emergency Communications after <a href="https://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=mcafee&type=E211US1144G0&p=date+of+hurricane+maria" target="_blank">Hurricane Maria</a> destroyed much of the Island in 2017. That seems a long time ago, however, a lot of work is still needed to be ready for the next major disaster. The members of the "Dominica Amateur Radio Club Inc" (DARCI) have been working hard to have all the interested amateur radio operators ready. They have been helping with <a href="https://bugbookmuseum.blogspot.com/2020/02/emergency-communications-center.html" target="_blank">repairing the club station</a>, radios, antennas, training new hams, and partnering with local & official groups to build a network of ready hams and equipment. </div>
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David<a href="http://www.kk4ww.com/" target="_blank"> "KK4WW/J79WW" </a>and Gaynell "KK4WWW/J79WWW" visited Dominica in late January 2020 as Directors of the "Foundation for Amateur International Radio Service" <a href="http://www.fairs.org/" target="_blank">(FAIRS)</a> and worked with DARCI. We provided service and equipment for the Club. <a href="https://bugbookmuseum.blogspot.com/2020/02/emergency-communications-center.html" target="_blank"> <b>See short report on the visit "CLICK"</b></a></div>
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<a href="https://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=mcafee&type=E211US1144G0&p=date+of+hurricane+maria" target="_blank">The Hurricane Maria was a category 5 storm</a> - an extreme storm - reportedly more severe than the very intense<a href="https://www.dominicagardens.com/hurricane-davids-ravages.html" target="_blank"> hurricane "David" </a>in 1979. Many ham radio operators that were able provided emergency communications.<br />
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A photo of Joseph J73JT and his HF/VHF/UHF station in the East Coast Village of Castle Bruce. Joseph was ready when <a href="https://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=mcafee&type=E211US1144G0&p=date+of+hurricane+maria" target="_blank">Maria </a>damaged the island. Power/water/internet and telephones were out of commissions for a number of months. Joseph packed up his station along with solar power and made his way to the village medical clinic. He was the only source of critical communication for a number of months from his village.<br />
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I mention Joseph because he was the first one who invited FAIRS to visit and help the Dominica Hams 23 years ago. We have made more than 30 visits during this time. J73JT has kept his station operational and ready for emergencies the past 23 years and had many opportunities to provide emergency communications. </div>
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Some ham <a href="https://www.dominicavibes.dm/news-257127/" target="_blank">news from Dominica </a><br />
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1. First of all, you will be visiting the Nature Island of the Caribbean - it is beautiful and interesting, with friendly people. The island is very small - 375 sq miles - loaded with water falls, rivers, rain forest, hiking trails, tall mountains, <a href="https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipOn3i6zcCTDbSlGjascxj2jWbBtTthQnrOa5Hjde1Ya9CSUBHgoiuWh3XBMpn63Xw?key=eXhQYmFnSC1vOTcyWjNEbjl5VW8yZ05qbjF6Vzdn" target="_blank">hot sulfur springs</a> and it is known as a good dive location and a population of about 65,000. In other words - an interesting and nice place to visit and practice your ham radio skills.</div>
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2. Provide training to new hams, install/repair antennas, install/repair HF, VHF/VHF radios, </div>
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3. Perhaps you would be able to provide some radio equipment, an HT, HF, Power Supply or Antenna. This would not be required, but just a nice thing to do. It is possible to carry some equipment with you on the plane. </div>
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4. Provide ham fellowship with ham radio operators. It is always interesting and rewarding to make new ham friends.</div>
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5. <a href="https://dxnews.com/j79l_dominica/" target="_blank"> Do some interesting DXing</a> - Dominica does not have many ham operators that operate in the HF DX bands and you would easily find yourself in in an exciting pileup. You can get your Dominica license before you arrive. See Gaynell having fun operating a <a href="https://youtu.be/Y7Rggy0IPdU" target="_blank">DX pileup as J79WWW/J79USA.</a></div>
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6. Contact the <a href="http://www.ntrc.dm/en/license/forms-publications" target="_blank">Dominica <span style="color: blue;">National Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (NTRC)</span></a> about <span style="color: red;"><b>obtaining a license</b></span>. NTRC<a href="https://www.facebook.com/ntrcdom" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"> Facebook </span></a></div>
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The morning net is operational Monday - Friday 7:30 AM EST or 11:30 GMT.</div>
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Here is how to check in - get signed up for<a href="http://echolink.org/" target="_blank"> Echo Link</a> .</div>
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1. Sign into Echo Link.</div>
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5. Sign into J73Z-R</div>
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6. You should be logged in now. Clement J73CPL is President.</div>
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You do not need to be a licensed amateur to use <a href="https://zello.com/" target="_blank">Zello</a> as it is only an internet VOIP talkie application. <br />
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Net starts at EST net will be at 7:30AM or 1200GMP</div>
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1. I run this net and my ID or <a href="https://zello.com/" target="_blank">Zello</a> name is #N4USA</div>
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3. Search for channel "FAIRS Ltd" sign in.</div>
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4. Should be ready to go.</div>
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I always have Dominica hams checking in.</div>
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Plan a trip to Dominica and enjoy some useful/interesting amateur radio Volunteer work. Contact me and I can help David KK4WW/N4USA<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Information and News about Historical Computers, People, Events & Computer Museums </div>David Larsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15992035338072848594noreply@blogger.com0Canefield, Dominica15.3318333 -61.387074599999991-10.235834700000002 -102.69566859999999 40.8995013 -20.078480599999992tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7481558333507842193.post-60634900994762524922020-02-16T17:56:00.000-05:002020-02-28T16:46:48.156-05:00Emergency Communications Center - Dominica Amateur Radio Club Site<div style="text-align: center;">
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Restoring the Club Site after Hurricane Maria</div>
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David and Gaynell Larsen - Directors of the <a href="http://www.fairs.org/" target="_blank">"Foundation for Amateur International Radio Service" (FAIRS) </a>visited Dominica to assist DARCI in late January 2020 and here are some of our activities. <a href="http://www.arrl.org/news/global-effort-under-way-to-restore-dominica-s-amateur-radio-capabilities" target="_blank">Many have assisted DARCI in recovering from Maria </a>. A lot of amateur radio work is still needed - if you would like to help give me a call 540-392-2392.<br />
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Club members David J79USA, Tony J73TP, Gilbert J72GPG, Clement J73CPL - holding talkies and other equipment donated by Jay Wilson at <a href="https://disasters.org/" target="_blank">Disaster Emergency Response Association (DERA)</a>. Photo taken in front of restored club house.<br />
The building is made from two shipping containers with a truss roof and a nice room between the containers. The roof was also destroyed by <a href="https://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=mcafee&type=E211US1144G0&p=date+of+hurricane+maria" target="_blank">hurricane Maria.</a><br />
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You can see the 2 containers with roof overhead with the room between containers. The room is very useful for meetings and other gatherings.<br />
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Solar panels are on the roof for off the grid operation during storms and power outages. The battery backup charged by the solar panels is below ground in a hardened container. The club also just buried the main power connection to the grid for a better chance of main power not failing.<br />
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Wood was salvaged from this shelter and used to repair the roof of main club house. The repair of this shelter will have to wait until the club has funds to do the work<br />
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You can see that the outdoor shelter was also damaged along with part of the security fence being blown over.<br />
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Gilbert J72GPG is the maintenance officer and he and Tony repaired the rotator and a new triband beam. New coax feed line was installed making the antenna system operational as new. The tower did withstand the hurricane so it did not have to be replaced.<br />
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The 50 foot tower at the home of J73CPL where Gaynell and I stay while in Dominica was totally destroyed by Maria. We need some help to get a new tower and beam up at that location in Wotten Waven.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There is a lot interest recently from members of the <a href="https://dapd.weebly.com/" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; color: #224466;">Dominica Association of Persons with Disabilities (</span><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #4466bb; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DAPD</strong><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); border: 0px; color: #224466; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">)</span></a><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial; cursor: pointer; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial;"><span style="color: #4466bb;"> </span>to become members of DARCI and assisting with emergency communications. Several DAPA members have already joined DARCI and are helping to operate as net control for the regular morning mobile net.</span></span><br />
The club has been asked to do some amateur radio training for DAPD in Dominica and I am sure this will result with more DARCI members. These members can make significant contributions to the Radio club.<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Information and News about Historical Computers, People, Events & Computer Museums </div>David Larsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15992035338072848594noreply@blogger.com0Canefield, Dominica - Dominica Amateur Radio Club15.328927 -61.388107315.2983 -61.4284478 15.359554000000001 -61.3477668tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7481558333507842193.post-83216975363411679842020-01-26T16:10:00.000-05:002020-04-24T16:13:06.036-04:00Tiny house Campground Micro-Cottage rental<br />
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<a href="https://www.chantillyfarm.com/" target="_blank">At Chantilly Farm Floyd, Virginia</a></div>
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The micro-cottage is a very functional weekend camping cabin for two. The cottage is insulated - heated in Winter and Air Conditioned in the Summer. It has beautiful woodland as backdrop with a great mountain view out the front.<br />
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<a href="http://www.chantillyfarm.us/" target="_blank">Here is a good view of Chantilly Farm from from an overhead drone.</a> Look close and in the upper left when video is starting you will see where the Micro-cottage is located - it is not much more then a small white dot.<br />
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The cottage is Micro - about 10 x 8 feet. Still it is very functional inside and many features outside - picnic table - Fire pit - water hydrant - outdoor lighting - short walk to bath house - nice flat area for tent and AC power.<br />
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Here is group of about 10 with most sleeping outside or just coming for the day. This was an <a href="http://www.arrl.org/field-day" target="_blank">amateur radio field</a> day event with lots of socializing, grilling and eating.<br />
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Inside the cottage is equipped with small refrigerator - Microwave - cabinets for storing provisions. Small table that can be used inside or outside - two metal chairs and two camp chairs. A nice view from the windows inside looking toward the mountains.<br />
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<a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Chantilly+Festival+Farm+and+RV+Campground/@36.9336832,-80.2293349,1141m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m15!1m9!3m8!1s0x884d87003716c651:0xd19e1903d18503c6!2sChantilly+Farm+Camping+and+RV+Park!5m2!4m1!1i2!8m2!3d36.9329714!4d-80.2258909!3m4!1s0x0:0xba781552e9b21be!8m2!3d36.9328446!4d-80.2258372" target="_blank">Location of Chantilly Farm on Google Maps.</a><br />
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Two bunk beds with good lighting for reading. WiFi is also available. It is not intended that guest would spend the entire day inside as it is beautiful outside. The farm has a good many activities with Disk Golf - <a href="https://chantillyfarm.com/wp/hiking/" target="_blank">Hiking/Bike trials</a> - 100 acres of woods to enjoy the Flora and Fauna. Acres of open grass land for ball games - kite flying and more. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grifOkogPSg" target="_blank">More about trails </a><br />
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Nice long distant view out the front of Micro-Cottage. Picnic table and fire pit with grill also next to cottage.<br />
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<a href="http://www.floydinfo.com/" target="_blank">Here are my Blog posting about Tiny Homes at Chantilly Farm and more.</a><br />
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<i><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Reuse of products - The micro-cottage was used as a small office at a different location before converting it to the current use.</span></b></i><br />
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This is just some reminiscing about old times when I had a small historical microcomputer museum in Floyd, Virginia. The entire collection was acquired by the<a href="http://www.computermuseumofamerica.com/" target="_blank"> "Computer Museum of America"</a> in 2016. I am proud to still be working with historical computers as a Board Member at the "Computer Museum of America".<br />
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<i>Please note this is not complete - it is a work in progress with a total of 19 cases of display material, some wall pieces, and Ham or Amateur radio station. </i><br />
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Next Step is QR code on each cabinet to click on with smart phone and get the audio of that case.<br />
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<i><span style="color: red;"><b>Welcome to the Audio Tour of the "Bugbook Historical Microcomputer Museum" Floyd Virginia</b></span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: red;"><b> David Larsen KK4WW Curator</b></span></i><br />
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Display Case #1 Audio Description "Bugbook Historical Microcomputer Museum'<br />
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Display Case 2 Bugbook Computer Museum Audio description<br />
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Display Case #3 Audio Description "Bugbook Computer museum"<br />
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Display Case #4 Audio Description "Bugbook Historical Microcomputer Museum'<br />
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Display Case #5 Audio Description "Bugbook Computer Museum"<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10.56px; text-align: center;">Amateur Radio Station N4USA</td></tr>
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Display Case #7 Audio Description "Bugbook Computer Museum"<br />
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Display Case #8 Audio Description "Bugbook Computer Museum"<br />
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Display Case #10 Audio Description "Bugbook Computer Museum"<br />
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Display Case #11 Audio Description "Bugbook Computer Museum"<br />
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Display Case #12 Audio Description "Bugbook Computer Museum"<br />
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Audio introduction to the "Bugbook Historical Microcomputer Museum"<br />
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Audio Introduction to our "Chantilly Farm Office" here in the Village Green.<br />
Jason Gallimore is our "Event and Festival Planner and Promotions Manager"<br />
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Display Case #13 Audio Description "Bugbook Computer Museum"<br />
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Display Case #14 Audio Discription "Bugbook Computer Museum"<br />
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Display Case #16 Audio Discription "Bugbook Computer Museum"<br />
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ASR 33 Teletype Audio Description "Bugbook Historical Microcomputer Museum'<br />
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"Foundation for Amateur International Radio Service" (FAIRS) in the Bugbook Computer Museum. The Curators of the museum also are Directors of FAIRS.<br />
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"Foundation For Amateur International Radio Service" Audio for banner and radio<br />
Station N4USA in the "Bugbook Historical Microcomputer Museum"<br />
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The Datapoint 2200 terminal - was an 8 bit programmable computer that came to market in 1971 --- way before Apple, IBM or Microsoft.<br />
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Datapoint 2200 terminal - audio description of the terminal/ computer in the "Bugbook Historical Microcomputer Museum'<br />
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We have several original Apple 1 computers in our museum however for security reasons we don't feel comfortable displaying the originals.<br />
This Apple 1 on display is a clone made for our museum by Brandon Cholodenko. It is a beautiful example of the an original Apple 1 and is an operational computer.<br />
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Apple 1 computer display in the "Bugbook Historical Microcomputer Museum'<br />
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Information and News about Historical Computers, People, Events & Computer Museums </div>David Larsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15992035338072848594noreply@blogger.com05000 Commerce Pkwy, Roswell, GA 30076, USA34.0384424 -84.3402380999999658.5164054 -125.64883459999996 59.560479400000006 -43.031641599999965tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7481558333507842193.post-3325205005648334112020-01-18T16:43:00.001-05:002020-04-23T10:15:31.422-04:00Tiny House Campground Bunk House rental<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We have two primitive small tiny house's at <a href="https://www.chantillyfarm.com/" target="_blank">Chantilly Farm</a> campground used as bunk house rental units. They are surprisingly popular rentals and super simple & functional.</div>
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<i><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grifOkogPSg" target="_blank">Enjoy hiking and bike trails that start next to the Bunkhouses.</a></b></i><br />
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The bunkhouses are located in a nice setting with a fire pit for outdoor pleasure and cooking. Each Bunk house generated about $3000 for the 2019 year. This is a good return as these units have been set up and used on three other farms during the past 10 years. First as a hunters cabins then moved and used on two other farms as weekend camping cabins for the family.<br />
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Camper like the clever way we have named the Tiny Homes after local animals and events. Bunk House A named "Cheery Chipmunk". Bunkhouse B is "Rising Rainbow".<br />
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WiFi is available at each bunk house from one of the five WiFi towers on the farm. </div>
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The inside is finished with 2x4 studs shown as part of the interior wall. The furnishings include one led light blub - four bunks - one table and 4 chairs. The AC power is minimal and only useful to charge your cell phone or computer. </div>
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Chantilly Farm is very close to the <a href="https://www.visitroanokeva.com/things-to-do/blue-ridge-parkway/?gclid=CjwKCAiAmNbwBRBOEiwAqcwwpfyHZ20QyapeEue_sNi5yaoNDYjdMPwssciI6jnGVc_sCNohqfLdnxoChXAQAvD_BwE" target="_blank">Blue Ridge Parkway.</a><br />
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These are unheated however it is surprising how many times we rent these out in rather cold weather. Motorcycle campers really like these bunk houses in place of setting up a small tent. It is a no brainier when it is raining to rent a bunkhouse instead of setting up a small tent. Simple bunk beds work just fine and Campers furnish there own bedding. </div>
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Children's play area with local deer grazing near camping area.</div>
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New Ham radio technology knocks on our
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The person I’m going to tell this
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Peter is the FAIRS member who was
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Recently Peter has bought and installed
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APRS Packet radio nodes UR0WUB-1 and
UX5DH-3 in Lvov using the equipment from the “Eurasia Foundation”
grant No. 95-0031 “Ukrainian Digital Amateur Radio Network” is
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In late December 2018 I introduced
Peter to a new digital mode FT8 and proposed him to try it by using
the equipment he had: ICOM IC7000 transceiver and FD4 multiband
dipole. Several weeks were spent to cure RF feedback and bad SWR
issues but finally the first FT8 QSO was made on 30m. It did not take
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For less then a year almost 7000 QSOs
were made on all bands 160 to 6 meters, DXCC awards (Mixed and
Digital) were received. As Peter told me, he was dreaming to put DXCC
on the wall from his first steps in ham radio when he saw them in Ham
Dad Vlad’s U5WF (UB5WF) shack and finally after almost 60 years
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To improve his DXCC Challenge totals on
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meters. This antenna was found to be much better then FD4 both for
receive and transmit on 160-40 meters. The table below shows Peter’s
DXCC Challenge totals achieved in less then a year with a simple
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So the opinion that DX-ing is easy with
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call UX5DH on the screen and realize that it is possible to come back
on the HF bands after many decades of absence and still have a great
fun. Welcome aboard, Peter!
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Village of 4 tiny houses is located at <a href="http://www.chantillyfarm.com/" target="_blank">"Chantilly Farm" </a> in the Beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains and 6 miles from the town of Floyd, Virginia. Chantilly Farm is a campground and event venue. See <a href="http://www.chantillyfarm.com/" target="_blank">" Chantilly Farm''</a> all the activities here at the farm. <i><b><a href="http://www.chantillyfarm.us/" target="_blank">video</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grifOkogPSg" target="_blank">Trails for a relaxing hike or walk on the farm.</a></b></i><br />
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Each Tiny house is 390 Sq. feet in size and set up for full time living however at this time we use each Tiny Home as office space. The village has many advantages compared to the 4 offices we rented for 17 years in the town of Floyd. Our town offices had no windows and was a boring work environment. Out here at Chantilly Farm we have 5 windows in each tiny house with wonderful mountain views. The rent in town was getting rather expensive and now we have our own place on the farm. Most of our business is at Chantilly Farm.</div>
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The Tiny Houses are tied together with a walkway that connects all the homes very conveniently. Each home has a front porch that fills the 28 feet of the front side of the house and makes a great place to watch the sunrise from the East. The homes are located on the South slope of the hill for great passive heat in the winter and melting our rare snow very quickly. You can see that each Tiny Home as a nice 6 foot wide porch with a covered overhang. Great a place for a rocking chair and watch the deer in the meadow.</div>
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Each Tiny Home has a full kitchen at one end with Stove, microwave, Refrigerator, sink , and cabinets.<br />
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This is the other end same office in the above photo and shows office set up with desk and file cabinets.<br />
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Each Tiny House is wired with 500 feet of CAT-6 internet data cable. There are 10 internet outlets in various parts of each tiny home. We can connect about any piece of equipment direct to the internet or connect various pieces of office equipment to digitally communicate with each other. The 4 Tiny Homes are each connected together with CAT-6 cable for inter office communication. A great office environment.<br />
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All 4 Tiny Homes are used as offices. Two are single offices, one serves two staff and one serves 3 staff.<br />
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Each home as a nice loft on each end that could be sleeping lofts. We use this lofts for storage space. You can see the loft on one end in this photo. Nice head room in the loft area.<br />
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Each Tiny House has an independent ductless mini split heating and air unit. Nice - each office can be set independently to satisfy the staff in that office. Very cost effective at about $750.00.<br />
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You can see the bath build out in this photo from the back side of village. The beautiful view we have from the front of the village. The Blue Ridge Parkway is only a couple of miles away.<br />
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This is the beautiful view from the deck of the Tiny Home Village. Nice!<br />
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It is expected that sometime in the future each of these Tiny Houses will be used as rental property here at Chantilly Farm and camp ground.<br />
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Chantilly Farm has many amenities along with the Tiny Home Village. We have a full service campground for tiny homes on wheels & RVs, multipurpose trails for biking or hiking, 9 hole disk golf course, large event barn, large stage. and much, much more. <a href="http://chantillyfarm.com/" target="_blank">Click here to see "Chantilly Farm" Web site</a>. <a href="http://www.chantillyfarm.mobi/" target="_blank">You can click here to see description of many features of the Farm Venue.</a> Enlarge the photo and you can see the Tiny House Village in center of the photo. Located in a beautiful part of the Blue Ridge Mountains. <br />
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Information and News about Historical Computers, People, Events & Computer Museums </div>David Larsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15992035338072848594noreply@blogger.com0Floyd, VA 24091, USA36.9112443 -80.32005019999996936.8985483 -80.340220199999962 36.9239403 -80.299880199999976tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7481558333507842193.post-23069778005658537492019-08-01T12:36:00.002-04:002022-11-15T16:11:04.099-05:00Computer Museum of America - Grand opining July 20,2019 <div style="text-align: center;">
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Roswell, Georgia - July 20,2019<br />
Up Dated 10/5/2020<br />
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Our entire historical microcomputer collection (Bugbook Microcomputer Museum) of 13,000 items was acquired by the Computer Museum of America. David Larsen</div>
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See videos of displays 10/5/2020<a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlN02MnqF-0iUOYGHwj8XThoiKRxdxpwR" target="_blank"> "CLICK"</a></div>
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The grand opening of the <a href="http://www.computermuseumofamerica.com/" target="_blank">Computer Museum of America</a> (CMoA) was an awesome event. The date was picked to to be the same day of the year on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing - July 20th. The museum founder, Lonnie Mimms, is a long time collector of computers and user of computers. The museum has so many exciting attributes & amenities it is hard for me to give proper credit in a short blog. Take a look at the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/CMofA/?__tn__=%2Cd%2CP-R&eid=ARDNl3Zz6YI-2ewtXx9REUotlZe7IYbycAJ0yxpeiQcbSoAVUlpFYQphbsKcptNFJFVkeV1XCmzHdHGX" target="_blank"> Facebook Page here</a>. <a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/bWvMsTWssLXx6VVcA" target="_blank">Look here of wonderful photos</a> of the opening.<br />
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<a href="https://computermuseumofamerica.org/" target="_blank">From Computer Museum of America - Web Site</a><br />
<span face=""open sans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-size: 16px;">"After 40 years of collecting technology and four years of testing temporary exhibitions, the Computer Museum of America <a href="https://computermuseumofamerica.org/" target="_blank">(CMoA)</a> will be opening the doors to its new permanent home on July 20,2019. The <a href="https://computermuseumofamerica.org/" target="_blank">CMoA</a> will preserve the achievements of the digital revolution to educate, entertain and inspire the innovator in us all."</span><br />
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Karin Mimms - Vice President speaks about goals of museum and introducing special guests at the Friday ( 7/13/19) Fundraiser Event.<br />
The opening week was in three parts - The Fundraiser Event on Friday the 13th, the Opening Celebration on Wednesday the 17th and the Grand opening for the public on Saturday the 20th.<br />
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NASA Astronaut Dr. Sandra Magnus was a very inspirational speaker about how her dream as a young person led to become a NASA Astronaut. Dr. Magnus made several shuttle flights and spent time on the Space Station. She is a wonderful enthusiastic advocate encouraging young people to pursue a career in<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science,_technology,_engineering,_and_mathematics" target="_blank"> STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Math)</a>. One the museums mission is to inspire young folks to develop an interest & career in the the field of science <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science,_technology,_engineering,_and_mathematics" target="_blank">(STEM)</a>.<br />
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The museum has a wonderful representation of computers and technology items on display with great information about each artifact. The museum has one of the largest collection of Cray Super Computers in the world.<br />
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This information came in the shipping container with the Cray-A.<br />
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Amazing supercomputer at that time.<br />
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50 miles of wire<br />
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The museum displays an excellent selection of Super Computers, Minicomputers, Microcomputers and some components of historical mainframe computers. This just the Grand Opening - there are 250,000 artifacts in the archives and the number of artifacts on display will be growing and rotating on a regular basis.<br />
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The museum has a good representation of Microcomputers on display - you can see some of them in the<a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/bWvMsTWssLXx6VVcA" target="_blank"> photos here</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://bugbookmuseum.blogspot.com/2014/07/vintage-computer-mark-8-40-year.html" target="_blank">The "Mark 8" </a>computer in this photo was designed by my colleague Dr. Jon Titus. Jon published his design in<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark-8" target="_blank"> "Radio Electronics" magazine in the May, June and July issues 1974</a>. Jon is given credit for being the one of the first to build an operational computer using a microprocessor chip and showing others how to build the computer.<br />
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The museum had a large number of interesting visitors for the Grand Opening day. Here is Dr. Cyndy Moya, Collections Manager at the<a href="https://livingcomputers.org/" target="_blank"> "Living Computer Museum"</a> in Seattle, Washington. On the right is Lonnie Mimms, Founder of the "Computer Museum of America". The "Living Computer Museum" founder was Paul Allen.<br />
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Some items on display from the old mainframe computers. Here are peripheral devices from the 1950/60s . A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keypunch" target="_blank"> key card punch</a>, collator, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_card_sorter" target="_blank">card sorter</a> and more.<br />
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Here is my <a href="https://archive.org/details/openingofthecomputermuseumofamerica7132019" target="_blank">audio description</a> of the aswsome events during the Inaugural Opening of the Museum<br />
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Visiting the CMoA and Roswell, GA for the the week of July 13- 20th Grand opening events for the museum was a very rewarding experience for Gaynell and I. To be with Lonnie and Karin Mimms and all the people that helped make Lonni's vision of a great computer and technology museum a reality was awesome.<br />
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This is just a start and the museum will be constantly evolving and expanding. Lonnie has more than 250,000 technology artifacts in the collection with more being added every week. The museum has a second level floor of about 120,000 sq ft for expansion and more could be added - lots of room for expansion.<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><i><b>When in the Roswell, Georgia area, I highly recommend a visit to the museum (About 20 miles north of Atlanta). The CMoA is open on Saturdays 10 to 5 PM and on Sunday 12 to 5 PM</b>.</i><b><i><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/5000+Commerce+Pkwy,+Roswell,+GA+30076/@34.0377273,-84.3415186,419m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x88f574bba147acfd:0x7c5ffc8ba7c5cb68!8m2!3d34.0384424!4d-84.3402381" target="_blank"> Here is how to get there - Goo</a></i></b></span><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/5000+Commerce+Pkwy,+Roswell,+GA+30076/@34.0377273,-84.3415186,419m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x88f574bba147acfd:0x7c5ffc8ba7c5cb68!8m2!3d34.0384424!4d-84.3402381" target="_blank"><b style="color: red;"><i>gle Map.</i></b><span style="color: red;"> </span></a><br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Information and News about Historical Computers, People, Events & Computer Museums </div>David Larsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15992035338072848594noreply@blogger.com02581 107th St NE, Dunseith, ND 58329, USA48.963393818163233 -100.1440746361885223.441356818163232 -141.45267113618851 74.485430818163238 -58.83547813618852tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7481558333507842193.post-51585805092253455052018-12-18T16:52:00.001-05:002022-02-24T16:36:44.757-05:00The Schoolsky Apple-1 computer in the Bugbook Collection.I purchase this Apple-1 computer in 1994 from Mr. Schoolsky who was a young friend of Steve Woznick during the start up of Apple. If he would have accepted the job offer he would have been the 6th Apple employee. Woznick gave this Apple-1 to Schoolsky during time when the Apple-1 was being sold in 1976. This computer has been made fully functional by my friend Win Heagy. This is the second Apple-1 Win has restored for me.<br />
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1. Original letter ( 12/1/94)to me from Adam Schoolsky with signature. Adam was the first owner and I am the second owner. I also have the envelope with the letter.<br />
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2. Envelope from Adam Schoolsky 1994.<br />
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2. Original hand written letter from Adam Schoolsky with signature to me about getting the literature and Apple-1 ready for shipping to me.<br />
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3. #58 on the Willegal Apple-1 registry. Mike Willegal for many years has been keeping track of all the known Apple-1 computers. All four of the ones I owned are on the registry and the Schoolsky computer is here <a href="http://www.willegal.net/appleii/apple1-originals.htm#Schoolsky">http://www.willegal.net/appleii/apple1-originals.htm#Schoolsky</a> you can see the site by clicking on the link.<br />
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3. Original Apple-1 14 page operation manual - mint condition.<br />
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One Page from the Apple-1 Operations Manual.<br />
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When you enlarge this drawing look at the names on the lower right. R. Wayne was a 10% owner in the first Apple partnership. He became concerned when the group wanted to borrow $50,000 to build the first 50 Apple-1 computers and sold his interest in the company for about $750. He was an owner for less then 2 weeks. Ron Wayne <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Wayne" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a><br />
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4. Front side of original Apple-1 computer advertising slick - 2 sided mint condition. Adam acquired this while helping Steve Wozniak during the first few months of the Apple Company start up. Adam would have been employee #6 if he had accepted the job offer to work full time at Apple.<br />
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Back side of original Apple-1 computer advertising slick<br />
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This is shows a note from Adam on the outside of the clear envelope containing the Apple-1 ad slick.<br />
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I have the original white box that all the Apple-1 computers were packaged in. This box has the name Woz ( The name Steve Wozinak uses) written on it.<br />
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Closer look at Woz written on the Apple-1 box cover.<br />
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Apple-1 computers stacked in boxes in Steve Jobs' bedroom from the very earliest Apple-1 computers. This photo shows the boxes used for the Apple-1 computers and is the same as the box I have. Adam Schoolsky sent me the Apple -1 computer in this box and said it was an original. The writing on the box also is a good indication of an original box.<br />
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An original 40 page program listing from the first West Coast Computer Faire in California. The Apple Computer Company was selling the Apple-1 computer at this faire. Adam Schoolsky was also at this show helping the owners Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs.<br />
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This is also the Faire where Wozniak and Adam Schoolsky did the Wozniak joke/spoof of putting out a brochure of a computer that was better than all the competition but did not exist. This spoof computer was called the "Zaltair" and now this is referred to as the "Zaltair Store".<br />
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Wozniak is a like to pull pranks on people and at this Computer Fair he had Adam Schoolsky help with what is known as the Zaltair prank. The prank worked this way -- a nice 2 sided brochure of a none existence computer ( Zaltair) was made up by Woz and Adam & 10,000 were printed. The Zaltair Computer had a better price and specifications then all the current microcomputers on the market. This caused a big commotion at the Faire and it was done in secret so no one new who had created the brochure. It was years later that Wozniak told Steve Jobs that he and Adam did the Zaltair hoax.<br />
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Back of Zaltair brochure.<br />
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An original copy of the very first Silicon Gulch Gazette - volume 0 number 1. The Silicon Gulch Gazette was published to promote the West Coast Computer Faire. It is interesting that the label was hand written with Adam Schoolskys mailing address.<br />
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An original copy of the Silicon Gulch Gazette Volume 4 number 2 addressed to Adam Schoolsky.<br />
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An original copy of the Silicon Gulch Gazette Volume 3 number 3 addressed to Adam Schoolsky.<br />
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"The First Apple" book by Bob Luther. I have this listed because Bob interviewed Adam Schoolsky and Adam discussed the sale of this Apple-1 computer to me. This is some of the documentation of my purchase<br />
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Also an interview with me and I also discussed the purchase of this computer.<br />
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The pages and text of these interview are listed below.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Page 250 from Bob Luthers book<br /> "The First Apple-1"</i></span></td></tr>
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Page 250 from Bob Luthers book "The First Apple-1"<br />
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This is about me discussing the purchase of Adam Schoolskys Apple-1 computer.<br />
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Page 256 from Bob Luthers book "The First Apple-1"<br />
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Page 266 from Bob Luthers book "The First Apple-1"<br />
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Steve Wozniak's book 2006 "iWoz" . Wozniak talks about the Apple-1 computer however I want to show how he worked with Adam Schoolsky in the very early days of the Apple Company.<br />
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The Apple-1 computer that I purchased from Adam Schoolsky is a result Adam being a friend and working with Steve Wozniak at the First West Coast Computer Faire in 1977. One of there projects was the Zaltair computer hoax that Wozniak and Schoolsky pulled off at this faire. The excerpt of the Zaltair story is in the next two slides.<br />
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Page 202 from the iWoz book shown above.<br />
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Information and News about Historical Computers, People, Events & Computer Museums </div>David Larsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15992035338072848594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7481558333507842193.post-60387381732905735022017-12-18T11:40:00.001-05:002022-11-15T16:21:18.728-05:0030 ton Vintage Computer collection moves to the "Computer Museum of America".<div>
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It was a 45 years effort and a great hobby to build my "Bugbook Historical Microcomputer" collection. The Collection was acquired by the Computer Museum of America and in February of this year (2016) it was all packed up and sent to the CMoA in Roswell, Georgia. A crew of 6 took 10 days to pack the 10,000 items. When the trucks were loaded one of them could not make it up the hill from the warehouse and I had to call a tow truck to help. Several tons had to be taken off that truck to keep it in the legal weight for the road. When the trucks weighted for the trip they were loaded with more then 30 tons of microcomputer artifacts. </div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7;">It is a real pleasure to have the collection now reside with a museum that is growing and can give good visibility our 45 year effort to build the collection. I am not sad to see the computer artifacts leave Floyd, Virginia and look forward to working with Lonnie Mimm's as a board member of his "Computer Museum of America".</span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Information and News about Historical Computers, People, Events & Computer Museums </div>David Larsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15992035338072848594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7481558333507842193.post-14916546182554832862017-10-06T08:39:00.000-04:002017-10-11T17:17:16.696-04:00Schoolsky Apple-1 sells for $401,000 delivered to new owner<br />
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The Schoolsky Apple-1 computer was sold by <a href="http://events.charitybuzz.com/schoolsky/" target="_blank">Chartitybuzz at auction</a> for $401,000 9/26/17. The currier "Dynamic Packaging" driver Paul Puletti arrived about 9 AM on Wednesday 10/4/17 for pickup and delivery to new owner. This computer has been part of David Larsen's "Bugbook Computer Museum" for the past 23 years. It will diven directly from the courier in Richmond,VA to the new owner in NY by FedEx Critical and should arrive Thursday 10/5/17<br />
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David Larsen seller of his Schoolsky Apple-1 computer on the left. On the right is Paul Puletti of Dynamic Packaging in Richmond Virginia. Paul will pick up the compute and take it to Richmond and<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukaqTj_ngQ4&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank"> build the special container</a> to send the Apple-1 on to the new owner by Fedex Critical custom delivery.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;"><i>David Larsen signs<br />pickup papers for<br />the Schoolsky<br />Apple-1 computer</i></span></td></tr>
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Assigning the Schoolsky Apple-1 over to the Currier Dynamic Packaging.<br />
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I signed off on the computer and it is now up to Paul to get it to the new owner.<br />
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The Apple-1 and the other items are loaded ready to go to Richmond, Virginia.<br />
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WOW This is the FedEx Critical truck that made the delivery from the Richmond office of Dynamic Packaging in Richmond Virginia to the new owner in NY. FedEx has two drivers for these high value loads.<br />
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We loaded it at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_617892410" tabindex="0">2:38 AM</span> 10/5/17 and it was delivered to its new home just under <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_617892411" tabindex="0">9 hours later</span> at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_617892412" tabindex="0">11:30</span>.<br />
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The Schoolsky Apple-1 computer as packaged by Dynamic Packaging and is the only cargo in this the truck (shown above). It must have been a little lonely in the back of the truck for the 9 hour trip to NY.<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukaqTj_ngQ4&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank"><b><i><span style="color: blue;">See how the Apple-1 computer was packaged in this wooden container.</span></i></b></a><br />
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<b><i><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://bugbookmuseum.blogspot.com/2017/08/charitybuzz-auction-of-my-schoolsky.html" target="_blank">Here is a detailed look at what was included with the Schoolsky Apple-1 computer.</a></span></i></b><br />
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<i><b><span style="color: red;">Video</span><span style="color: blue;"> - <a href="https://youtu.be/Js5W-qkARJ8" target="_blank"> shipping the Schoolsky Apple-1 from Floyd VA 4.24 minutes</a> </span></b></i><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><i><b>Video</b></i></span> - <b><i><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fMKh50bAmE" target="_blank">David describing the Apple-1 before it was packed up for new owner 2 minutes </a></span></i></b><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b><i>Video</i></b></span> -<a href="https://youtu.be/ue11-YQAqTg" target="_blank"> </a><b><i><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://youtu.be/ue11-YQAqTg" target="_blank">Documentation as part of Schoolsky Apple-1 computer sale 2.59 minutes </a> </span></i></b><br />
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"by David Larsen" Computer collector and historian. Working with Charitybuzz auctioning the Apple-1 was a great experience. Charitybuzz was a real pleasure to work with - I owe the team at Charitybuzz big thank you and lots of gratitude. David KK4WW<br />
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