Tonight's Topic: "Mixed Bag of 3 Trivia Questions -- #20:
"WIN System 2014 Campout --
Shorty
[K6JSI] Special"
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Accordingly, for tonight's questions we have chosen as our topic the inventor of the Western Intertie Network (aka WIN System), Jeffrey Stouffer -- better known to all of us Insomniac-Net denizens as Shorty [K6JSI]!
Accordingly, we are asking you to answer just 3 simple Shorty questions.
Please give us your best K6JSI answers -- SUFFIX ONLY -- from any of the 3 (reuseable) answers of "J", "S", or "I" (if applicable!) for each question.
So, how much do you know about "the Man" behind the WIN System?
++ "Mixed Bag of 3 Trivia Questions -- #20: "Here's Shorty [K6JSI]! -- a WIN System 2014 Campout Special" ++
Question #1: How old was Jeff Stouffer when he got his first Amateur Radio license and what was his first call sign?
J. 10 years old -- NO0DLE, or
S. 12 years old -- KN6JSI, or
I. 18 years old -- K6JSI
Taken
from Shorty [K6JSI]'s
QRZ.com biography page:
"My real name is Jeff, but at 6' - 6" tall, most everyone calls me 'Shorty' on the air. I was first licensed as a Novice Class Amateur Radio Operator as KN6JSI in 1953, at 12 years of age. The Novice Class was only good for one year, and was non-renewable, so my Mom drove me down the the FCC Building in Downtown LA during the summer school break in 1954, where I passed the General Class exam in front of an FCC examiner. That got rid of the 'N' in my call sign, and I've been K6JSI ever since. It also allowed me to operate on Phone, which was AM back then."
Question
#2: After he and
his AMer
buddies lost the "Sideband Wars" in the late 1950s and early sixties, Shorty discovered FM
repeaters -- which when linked together
-- not only had good quality audio, but you could also talk "long"
distance (without the skip). "My real name is Jeff, but at 6' - 6" tall, most everyone calls me 'Shorty' on the air. I was first licensed as a Novice Class Amateur Radio Operator as KN6JSI in 1953, at 12 years of age. The Novice Class was only good for one year, and was non-renewable, so my Mom drove me down the the FCC Building in Downtown LA during the summer school break in 1954, where I passed the General Class exam in front of an FCC examiner. That got rid of the 'N' in my call sign, and I've been K6JSI ever since. It also allowed me to operate on Phone, which was AM back then."
In 1990, he started the WIN System (Western Intertie Network) by linking several southern California repeaters together.
But why? What did Shorty originally have in mind when he began the WIN System?
J. He wanted to show all those other repeater owners in SoCal, that he didn't need "no stinkin' expensive CB, CW, SSB, or other HF radios to do DX" (i.e., long distance), or
S. He wanted all licensed Amateurs to join in and have fun talking to other HAMs on the WIN System -- even if it was just with their portable radios, or
I. He wanted to get rich quick with a new fangle UFO-style, auto-patch, laser-light, cell-phone, smoke-n-mirrors technology that had a hypenated word as its brand-name.
Taken from the WIN System's System Information Package, page 5, last paragraph:
Shorty built
the WIN System with portable radios in mind.
Getting a repeater to talk is not a difficult thing to do on a
high-level mountaintop location. Getting a repeater
to HEAR is the trick. That is why the WIN System
has spent the extra money to run two antennas and feed lines at most
Sites. It gives the repeater the maximum possible ability
to hear. It is the way virtually all commercial and cellular
repeater Sites operate. You will find that you can usually “get into”
the WIN System! It hears!
J. The reception antenna is usually shorter and thinner -- which makes it both lighter and more wind-resistant -- ideal for mounting higher on any tower (especially on windy mountain tops), or
S. Getting a repeater to HEAR is the trick -- i.e., so YOU can usually "get into" the WIN System!, or
I. At a height of 6-foot, 6-inches, Shorty -- who played as a "Wide Receiver" on the USC mighty football team during college -- prefers it that way -- "no exceptions!"
Taken
from the WIN System's System Information Package, page 5, last paragraph:
Shorty built the WIN System with portable radios in mind. Getting a repeater to talk is not a difficult thing to do on a high-level mountaintop location. Getting a repeater to HEAR is the trick. That is why the WIN System has spent the extra money to run two antennas and feed lines at most Sites. It gives the repeater the maximum possible ability to hear. It is the way virtually all commercial and cellular repeater Sites operate. You will find that you can usually “get into” the WIN System! It hears!
[SOURCE: listed with question]Shorty built the WIN System with portable radios in mind. Getting a repeater to talk is not a difficult thing to do on a high-level mountaintop location. Getting a repeater to HEAR is the trick. That is why the WIN System has spent the extra money to run two antennas and feed lines at most Sites. It gives the repeater the maximum possible ability to hear. It is the way virtually all commercial and cellular repeater Sites operate. You will find that you can usually “get into” the WIN System! It hears!
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-- Also, during the segment, you can also hear N5ZUA, N6WI, K6UFX, KI6MAH, WB6IAG, K6TZ, K6IXQ, K4GET, KD4JMV, VE3JIW, N7MJM, et. al. in a WIN System demonstration.
[SOURCE: Ham Nation -- Episode 13 -- August 16, 2011 -- timemark = 29:54; also for a laugh, check out the mad-cap radio parts recovery segment at timemark = 54:00]
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Thank you!
Shelley [KF7TBA] & LW [K7LWA]
K7LWA.INS@gmail.com
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