Do a google search for the April fools stories in various ham magazines.
I would love to find if the British ones were on the web somewhere.
-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Shaun Oliver
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 12:59 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: antenna hight
hmmm. rectal reflection. wonder if we could calculate some times the
band would be open. perhaps during extreme flatulence?
there's a thought. one for ips to investigate. fart wave propagation.
Shaun
web sites:
http://www.myspace.com/blindmanshaunoliver
http://blindman.homelinux.org/~blindman/
skype: brailledude
On 26/03/2008 9:13 AM, the old scribe known as Colin McDonald was able
to impart this pearl of wisdom:
> I convinced my YL, since she really doesn't like the connetations of
XYL, to
> become a ham less then a month after i got my ticket.
> She's blind as well, so there are less issues surrounding antenna
placement
> then what i have heard from those with sited spouses.
> She doesn't mind me having a 60 foot random wire strung up along the
living
> room, dining room and kitchen ceiling.
> also, as long as an antenna is out of the general work or walking
area, and
> she won't trip on it, or otherwise have cause for adult utterences
directed
> at me, then she's happy to let me put antennas where ever I so desire.
> She gets funny ideas of where to put antennas when they do inhibit her
> demestic navigation though hi hi.
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "john vernaleken" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 3:59 PM
> Subject: Re: antenna hight
>
>
>> Shaun,
>>
>> Half the challenge in Ham Radio is keeping the XYL happy.
>>
>> Good luck
>>
>> John KC2QJB
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Shaun Oliver" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 6:39 AM
>> Subject: Re: antenna hight
>>
>>
>>> hmmm. that would upset the zyl and I refuse to do that. not only
that, I
>>> don't have the means to get any higher than 20 feet.
>>> I might consider using thinner wire so long as I can push up to 100
>>> watts through it, even though I shan't be outputting more than 10.
>>>
>>>
>>> Shaun
>>> web sites:
>>> http://www.myspace.com/blindmanshaunoliver
>>> http://blindman.homelinux.org/~blindman/
>>> skype: brailledude
>>>
>>>
>>> On 25/03/2008 8:17 PM, the old scribe known as Howard Kaufman was
able
>>> to impart this pearl of wisdom:
>>>> I don't know, the higher the wire, the harder it is to see from the
>>>> ground.
>>>>
>>>>
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