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HamFests and bacon

2003-03-21 by Roger Rossen

Thanks for all the responses guys,

I now know that I'm psychicly linked with the Great God of Analog - 
ohmmmmmmm.

Turns out that there's a fest in Grayslake this Sunday!  (thanks to 
GARE II) I swear - I did not know this...now I'm all creeped out...

Paul - funny on the RRs a Ham!  Actually my only relation to Ham guys 
is that I used to have to go do lectures for them when I did radio/TV 
interference location for the utility -  I still work there - but do 
not do that anymore.   I have a particular viewpoint of Ham operators 
that would definitely prove I am not one.  

The only thing that I could ever see, that these guys did, was to 
do "end-of-the-world" scenarios on a yearly basis (like the guys down 
south who recreate the Civil War drama)and mock up emergency 
communication posts to assist the gov. when the bombs start 
dropping...Also - there was never one Ham-dude under the age of 
seventy, when I did my lectures to packed halls - and I always 
wondered how are these guys gonna save us?...with Geritol IVs and 
such, scattering to the fields to erect their Dipoles?

OK - I'm just goofing  - for any Hams out there - I'm sure there are 
possibly many and I don't want to truly offend...

Well -  after gazing at MSNBC today - guess I need to eat my words 
anyways and hope we'll never need to rely on them for what would be, 
an extremely important thing!

Now - with my still up-in-the-air schedule, as far as going to AHMW 
on Sat.  - now I've got to just tell the wife I'm leaving early 
Sat.,"see ya Sun. nite."  This will not gonna go over well...

Oh Gawd - the stress of it all....

Lastly - a post questioning the purpose of a 'sub-oscillator' 
well "these are just oscillators that fill-in when the main one is 
sick"

And something about 'nylon hardware'...isn't that a garter-belt???

Ok I'll stop - have a great weekend everyone - don't watch too much TV

Rog

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