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I wave a WAC (Worked All Continents) award, so take your pick. My most favorite person to chat with was a ham in Vladivostok. He was a master at the key. I was hard-pressed to keep up with him. But he was also a great conversationalist. There were times we talked for over an hour on most every subject we could think of. The most interesting callsign I ever encountered was from Thailand. It was HS5IS. This call consists of nothing but dits, no dahs - a real challenge, even with a speed key.

As for voice, there was a ham in Australia who had an accent I could cut with a knife, but was always filled with stories. I loved chatting with him.

When you've been a ham as long as I have (1957 to 2025) there is hardly a country I haven't at least exchanged signal strength and readability with.

Bill

If we go by date, I first used a computer in 1962. Built a lot of Heathkit H-8's for friends who didn't know which end of a soldering iron to hold. The H-8 was built around an Intel 8080A. I built an interface between it and my ham RTTY machine.

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Me sets switches for the first 16-bit octal (hi bit = parity) word then presses the SW to E, E to M, and enters the next word in the switches. This is a Burroughs D-82, or as the Navy called it, a AN/UYK3. For two years I was the only person in the world that was allowed to program it (in fact, the only one who KNEW how to program it).

The is a shot of the front panel of the emulator I programmed just for the heck of it a couple of years ago. It is fully functional.

And now I know I'm way off topic, so I'll show myself out.

Bill

I go back to punched cards and mag tape drives.

Bill

Deep condolences, Alan. Welcome back. Take your time to ease back into the site.

Bill

Ten purr-cent.

Bill

I've noticed this myself and, sadly, I'm one of those missing from the site. I notice that my last posting was on October 10 and still appears in the "new Books" listing. I remember not too long ago when any given post would be knocked off the list in a short as time as a week or less. I've been on the site for almost fifteen years. When I first joined, there were a great deal more active members. Following the Big Crash, when we lost two years of posts, that seemed to turn off a lot of members who never came back.

I used to do a large amount of reviews most every time I logged into the site. Now, I hardly do any. In my case, I'm sure my sloth is due to having amassed almost 1000 points. If I want to post anything, I already have the points I need, thus there isn't a push to gather more by reviewing. I know this is a psychological reason, but it still exists.

I've been procrastinating on my current novel, What Doesn't Kill Us..., for some time now. My brain says "Why doesn't anyone review it?" and then my more practical side answers by saying: "Well, you didn't review them so how can you even wonder why they don't review you?" It's a lose-lose situation and I. for one, am having a hard time resolving it. Even my writing/editing here at home is affected by this procrastination, and I feel badly because of it.

Bill

Kdot is correct. In Firefox, if you go to image on your profile page and right-click it, choose "Inspect," you will get a lot of info, including the URL of where that image is stored. Now, do the same thing to the Forum image. It will be a different URL indicating a storage folder for TNBW images. I'm guessing, as Kdot suggests, it is updated infrequently.

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You are the one who sets the price. If you go to the Amazon URLs in my profile, you'll se what mine go for. They both run in the 130-150K word range.

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I don't know, Dirk. Never tried anywhere else (other than the 50 rejection notices I received before going to KSP).

Bill

Since I self-publish using KSP (Kindle Self Publish) from Amazon, I download their free software called "Kindle Create." It will allow inserting pictures, formatting title/extra pages, separation into chapters, etc. There are several formats to use as well (reflowable [novels], comics, kids', and print replica). This allows exporting epubs, pdf, and most of the other formats. If you DO use Amazon to publish, then there is an "upload to Amazon" button that takes care of sending it to get published.

Bill