What was the wine they were serving with that pasta?
73, Lou K2LKK

At 08:08 PM 10/26/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Oink oink!!
>
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>----- Forwarded message from "Richard Brummer, K2JQ" <[log in to unmask]> -----
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>To: "Rob Matherly" <[log in to unmask]>, "Flying Pigs" <[log in to unmask]>
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>I had an experience with a "wet noodle contact" years ago.
>
>We had a local ham and his family over for dinner, and we got to talking
>about the sensitivity of the local two-meter repeater.  The comment was made
>about being able to get into the repeater on a wet noodle.  Oddly enough, we
>were all devouring a rather large bowl of spaghetti.
>
>I got the bright idea to place a strand of spaghetti in contact with the
>antenna connector on my IC-2AT.  We succeeded in making an actual contact on
>the strand of spaghetti.  My friend went a step further and took the
>spaghetti and dipped it in sauce, and we tried another contact.  The signal
>was actually stronger with the sauce-covered strand !
>
>73,
>Dick  K2JQ
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rob Matherly <[log in to unmask]>
>To: Flying Pigs <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Friday, October 26, 2001 8:30 PM
>Subject: [fpqrp] Fw: [Live-Wire] Pasta noodle antenna
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> >Oh Brother!!!!!
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