Oink oink!!

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----- Forwarded message from "Richard Brummer, K2JQ" <[log in to unmask]> -----

To: "Rob Matherly" <[log in to unmask]>, "Flying Pigs" <[log in to unmask]>

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


>Oh Brother!!!!!
>


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