A P P L
E S L I C E S
The Weekly Reader of the "22
CREW"
RADIO CLUB OF JHS 22, POB 1052, NEW YORK NY
10002
516,674,4072 FAX 516,674,9600
CLASSROOM NET 7.238 MHz 7AM M-F
WEEK 4 OF 2008-OUR 28TH
YEAR
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JUST 10 DAYS FROM
TODAY....WE LEAVE FOR ORLANDO AND THE HAMCATION....
NOW YOU MAY MISS:
DINNER OR YOU COULD MISS THE TRAIN AND MAYBE YOU COULD MISS WORK........BUT YOU
DO NOT WANT TO MISS BEING ON "TEAM 22 CREW" IN ORLANDO....JUST
LOOK AT THOSE SMILING HAPPY HAMMY FACES ABOVE...YOU TOO CAN BE IN THAT PICTURE
FOR ALL THE WORLD TO SEE IN UPCOMING EDITIONS OF "APPLE SLICES" AND WHO KNOWS
WHERE ELSE.
BEFORE SENDING THIS
EDITION TO THE PRINTER, WD4DUG, WE MADE A CALL TO THE BEST WESTERN IN ORLANDO
... THEY ASSURED ME THAT THERE IS STILL ROOM AT THE INN FOR "TEAM 22
CREW" MEMBERS...
SO...IF YOU HAVE NOT
YET TAKEN THE PLUNGE...DO IT NOW...EVEN BEFORE YOU FINISH READING ALL OF WEEK
4...HERE IS THE INFO YOU NEED:
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BEST WESTERN
2014
W Colonial Drive
Orlando, Florida, 32804-6908
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Phone: 407-841-8600 |
Fax: 407-843-7080
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NOW HERE IS A
HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT...GOT A LOCAL VHF NET? GOT AN HF NET? GOT A CLUB
MEETING COMING UP THIS WEEK? LET THE HAM RADIO WORLD YOU ARE IN KNOW THAT
THE "22 CREW" WILL BE LOCATED AT TABLE 72 IN COMMERCIAL BUILDING 1...AGAIN THAT
IS:
7 2
D A
Y T O N 2 0 0 8
IN CASE YOU HAVE NOT
SEEN YOUR CALANDAR LATELY TODAY IS JANUARY 27TH....ONCE AGAIN
WE
ARE WORRIED!
NORMALY WE GET SOME
KIND OF COMMUNICATION FROM THE HAMVENTION PEOPLE BACK IN DECEMBER...NOTHING THIS
YEAR...BY NOW WE HAVE THE RESERVATION FORMS AND HAVE THEM FILLED OUT AND SENT IN
SO AS TO KEEP THE SAME SPOTS WE HAVE HAD FOR THE LAST 20 +
YEARS....1336/1337/1338....AGAIN NOTHING FROM DAYTON AT ALL....
WITH ALL THE FOLKS NOW
READING "APPLE SLICES" WE WOULD LIKE YOU TO LET US KNOW IF YOU HEAR
ANYTHING....
FOR THE LAST 5 YEARS OR
SO THERE IS ALWAYS SOME DRAMA INVOLVED WITH THIS HAMFEST...IN THE END IT ALL
WORKS OUT BUT GETTING THERE IS A REAL T R I P!
SO...BE OUR EYES AND
EARS AND PLEASE SEND AN EMAIL IF YOU HEAR ANYTHING.....
K 2 G S
L
CLUB MEMBER
IC DAY WINNER
2006
REGULAR NET
CHECKIN
AND
NOW
GRANPA....WELL SORT OF....
IF YOU GET UP
GET ON AND START YOUR DAY THE "22" WAY ON THE CLASSROOM NET YOU KNOW
BOB-K2GSL....FOR SEVERAL YEARS NOW BOB HAS BEEN WITH US ALMOST
DAILY...THIS MAY CHANGE FOR AWHILE AS THE GSL HOUSEHOLD HAS
GROWN...
SEE BOB HAS THIS
DOG...A GREAT DANE....NAMED KISSES:
THATS KISSES AT 8
MOTHS...HERE SHE WAS JUST AN INNOCENT TEENAGER...BUT LIKE ALL OF US KISSES HAS
GROWN OLDER AND NOW .. JUST THIS WEEK .. SHE IS ALSO A MOMMY:
SO THE "GSL" HOUSEHOLD
HAS GROWN ASTRONOMICALLY IN THE LAST WEEK WITH 9 NEW MOUTHS TO FEED...THATS 8
GIRLS AND 1 BOY IN THE PICTURE ALONG WITH MOM...SO BOB YOU MAY NOT NEED A
COLLEGE FUND BUT YOU SURE WILL NEED A DOG FOOD FUND AND FROM LOOKING AT THE SIZE
OF MOM PROBABLY THE TWO FUNDS WILL PROBABLY BE ABOUT EQUAL!
I C O M D A Y 2 0 0 8
WELCOMES 3
NEW PLAYERS
THIS WAS A GREAT
WEEK FOR ICOM DAY...WE GOT THREE NEW RECRUITS...BUT...NOW HEAR
THIS....ALL THREE ARE RETURNING PLAYERS AND ALL THREE ARE HONOR ROLL "22
CREW" MEMBERS AND ALL THREE HAVE BEEN WITH US FOR MORE THAN 20
YEARS!!!!!
CAL-W9JAN CAL HAS BEEN A CLUB MEMBER SINCE AT
LEAST 1987... IN OUR LOGBOOK HE IS #2263...OUR LOGBOOK HAS 30,364
ENTRIES...SINCE 87 HE HAS BEEN A SUPPORTER PLUS NEVER MISSED A SINGLE ICOM
DAY...AND NOW GET THIS.. FOR THE LAST TWO WEEKS THAT WE HAVE BEEN PAYING
ATTENTION HE IS THE FIRST ONE TO CHECK IN TO THE NET EACH
MORNING!
STU-WA4JUO
HE USED TO HAVE A TEN-TEC AND NEVER COULD SEEM TO GET RITE ON 7.238 HENCE THE
SPECIAL PHONETICS Just Usually Off....NOW HE HAS AN
ICOM AND WE UPGRADED HIM TO Just Usually On...PLUS STU SENDS
A BAG OF IN THE SHELL PLANTERS PEANUTS EACH CHRISTMAS OF WHICH EVEN TODAY
WE ARE STILL PICKING UP OLD SHELLS HERE AT HQ...JUO HAS BEEN ON THE HONOR ROLL
SINCE AT LEAST 1986 HE NEVER MISSED A YEAR AND HAS BEEN IN EVERY ICOM DAY SINCE
THE BEGINNING... HIS LOGBOOK # IS 964
W8CNJ-ROGER
IN THE BOOK ROGER IS #776...ROGER USED TO LIVE IN LAS VEGAS AND IN THE EARLY
80'S ON THE 21.395 CLASSROOM NET ROGER WAS ALWAYS THERE..HE WORKED COUNTLESS
NUMBERS OF KIDS OVER THE YEARS ON 15M AND MADE THE SOUTHWEST COME ALIVE FOR SO
MANY YOUNGSTERS AS ONLY HAM RADIO PLUS GREAT PEOPLE CAN DO...HE HAS
SUPPORTED THE CLUB NON-STOP SINCE THEN AND HAS NEVER MISSED AN ICOM DAY...ON OUR
TRIP TO FT WAYNE AND THE HAMFEST SEVERAL YEARS AGO HE WAS THE STAR MEMBER OF
"TEAM 22 CREW":
NEXT MONTH ROGER..WHO NOW LIVES IN
OHIO...IS HEADED TO A MONTH OF RELAXATION IN THE GEORGIA WOODS...HE WILL HAVE A
706 AND A DIPOLE AND PROMISES TO GET ON THE NET FROM:
OH AND WHEN ROGER CHECKS IN .. IF YOU
HEAR A LITTLE WOOFING IN THE BACKGROUND:
HIS LONG TIME PAL HONEY WILL BE
JOINING HIM!
2008 IC DAY
PLAYERS LIST
761175 &
761176................GEORGE-NK8T
761177 & 761178
& 761179.........................JOE-W2LED
761180.........................................CAL-W9JAN
761181................................................STU-WA4JUO
761182.........................................................ROGER-W8CNJ
B I R T H D
A Y S
JANUARY 27-FEBRUARY
2
TODAY...JANUARY 27....A DOUBLE
HEADER!!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO KIM-N8FY....KIM IS ONE OF THE MANY
MICHIGONIANS THAT START THEIR DAY THE "22" WAY ON THE CLASSROOM NET...PLUS IF
THE CONDX ARE ...ahhh DIFFERENT SHE CHECKS IN ON THE HOTLINE...KIM HAVE
THE BESTEST BIRTHDAY EVER AND WE ARE SO GLAD YOU ARE WITH US....
K E 4 W-DAVE WE MET DAVE FOR THE FIRST TIME ON
DECEMBER 17 1994 ON 3.903 MHz DURING A CONTEST WE WOULD THINK AS THE UTC TIME
ACCORDING TO OUR LOG WAS 0503...DAVE RAPIDLY JOINED THE RANKS OF THE "22
CREW" HE GOT US TO THE MYRTLE BEACH HAMFEST...WHEN HE MOVED TO ARKANSAS HE
GOT US TO THE LITTLE ROCK HAMFEST ... HE ACTUALLY CAME AND VISITED US IN THE
CLASSROOM AND MET THE KIDS .....HE IS WHOLLY RESPONSIBLE FOR MAKING THE LAS
VEGAS NATIONAL TEACHERS MEETING THE ROARING SUCCESS IT IS TODAY...AND...HERE HE
IS IN ACTION..NOT AT THE SLOT MACHINE BUT AT THE PODIUM IN LAS VEGAS
...TODAY IS HIS BIRTHDAY...HAPPY BIRTHDAY PROFESSOR
DAVE!!!!
JANUARY 31...ANOTHER DOUBLE HEADER
YOU THINK YOU FEEL OLD..TRY THIS.....STEVEN WAS ABOUT 12 WHEN I
FIRST MET HIM AT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL 22...HE RAPIDLY TOOK OVER AS THE STAR
STUDENT OF THE "22 CREW" EARNING THE NICKNAME THE "EARLY BIRD" AS HE CAME IN
EARLY DAILY TO OPERATE 7.238 ..HE GOT HIS HAM TICKET-KB2KUC.....TODAY
HE IS ONE OF NY'S VERY VERY FINAST AND TODAY...NOW HOLD ON...SIT DOWN...I CANT
BLV IT...HE IS 33!!!!!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY STEVEN!!!!!....now where is my walker..i know its
here someplace...........
ANOTHER JAN. 31....THIS TIME WE GO TO THE HILL IN NC AND SAY
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO "LITTLE TOMMY SUNSHINE" W 4 J A R...YEP OL JAR IS
YET ANOTHER YEAR OLDER....HAPPY BIRTHDAY THOMAS!!!
JANUARY 29....YET ANOTHER DOUBLE HEADER.....
V E 3 G F M....GREEN FUNNY MONEY....GRANT.....HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO
YOU....GRANT WILL BE ON "TEAM 22 CREW" IN ORLANDO...SO CMON OUT AND MEET HIM AND
WISH HIM A BELATED HAPPY BIRTHDAY.....
K 9 K E J - ORRIN.....WE DONT KNOW WHERE HE IS...COULD BE COSTA
RICA...COULD BE SAMOA COULD BE ANYWHERE...HE TRAVELS A LOT....BUT WHEREVER YOU
MAY ROAM (TODAY) ON LAND OR SEA OR FOAM....HAPPY BIRTHDAY ORONIOUS!!!!!
FEBRUARY 2
THATS GEORGE...N6VNI....TODAY IS HIS DAY...EVERYDAY IS HIS
DAY...OUR FIRST QSO WITH GEORGE WAS SEPT 7 1991 ON 10 METERS AND AS THEY SAY THE
REST IS HISTORY....I DONT EVEN KNOW WHERE TO START EXCEPT TO SAY THAT THE "22
CREW" WOULD NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO WITHOUT HIM...HE HAS HELPED US AT
COUNTLESS ARRL SW CONVENTIONS..HE HAS VISITED US HERE WE VISIT HIM
THERE...HE IS AN ICOM DAY PLAYER FOR YEARS AND .. HAS BEEN THE GUY THAT MAKES
EQUIPMENT DONATIONS POSSIBLE THROUGHOUT 6 LAND AND BEYOND...WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT
VITAL YOU TALK ABOUT VNI....HAPPY BIRTHDAY
GEORGIE.
THATS IT FOR THIS WEEKS BIRTHDAYS...DID WE MISS YOU
....PLEASE LET US KNOW AND PLEASE LET US KNOW IF WE DONT HAVE YOU ON THE
BIRTHDAY LIST SO YOU MAY BE
ADDED.
3, 4 0 1
BREAKING THE 3400 BARRIER THIS
WEEK AND LET ME TELL YOU IT HAS NOT BEEN EASY...BUT WE DID IT...THRU NO HELP
FROM ANY OF YOU THO...CMON.. WE NEED A hamradiomanuals POSTER BOY OR GIRL FOR
NEXT WEEK...DIG'M OUT AND SEND'M
OVER!
TEACHER'S
MEETING
JULY 12 & 13
2008
LAS
VEGAS
GOT A
LITTLE HOT THERE THIS WEEK BUT NOT TO WORRY...THAT CAN HAPPEN ANYWHERE...MAKE
PLANS NOW TO JOIN US AND MEET THE BIRTHDAY BOY THIS WEEK..KE4W..AND SO MANY
MORE
REPEAT
...DO
NOT MISS THIS...CALL THE PLAZA HOTEL
Toll Free: (800) 634-6575
AND BE A
PART OF THE EDUCOM
EFFORT!
NEED A TAX DEDUCTION FOR
2008?
BEAT THE
RUSH TO SPRING CLEANING...GET RID OF THAT ALPHA OR COLLINS OR MERCEDES OR BOAT OR WHATEVER IT IS YOU DONT WANT..REMEMBER WE PICK
UP AND WE TAKE PICTURES AND HAVE THE COFFEE
ON....CALL US TODAY!
THIS WEEKS SKED
EVERYDAY FROM CREW HQ..AT THE MOMENT....HOPEFULLY THIS WILL CHANGE...THE
ONLY WAY TO KNOW IS TO JOIN US ON THE CLASSROM NET!
DING
DONG