[AMRadio] You Might be a Phony Operator if...

[Bernie Doran]

well  how  about AM is limited to 2 kc or what ever makes a good story, and 
" well he must be illegal cause he be 7kc"   or what ever KC wide?   and 
could someone explain sweers for SWR that must be CB crap. --- Original 
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From: "jon baker" <ad5hr1 at yahoo.com>
To: "Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service" 
<amradio at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 5:48 PM
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] You Might be a Phony Operator if...


>   You always refer to yourself as "We" even when alone in the shack.
>   You use a computer to key and receive CW!
>   You think "homebrewing" involves beer or wine.
>    Gotta' be plenty more?
>   This thread may become quite fun?
>     Jon, AD5HR
> --- On Sun, 7/10/11, D. Chester <k4kyv at charter.net> wrote:
>
>> From: D. Chester <k4kyv at charter.net>
>> Subject: [AMRadio] You Might be a Phony Operator if...
>> To: amradio at mailman.qth.net
>> Date: Sunday, July 10, 2011, 12:39 PM
>>
>> You think a Johnson Kilowatt Matchbox is a "2.4 KW Tuner"
>>
>> You refer to one's name as the "first personal" or just
>> "personal".
>>
>> You end a QSO with "Seventy-Thirds" or "Threes".
>>
>> You try to enter an ongoing QSO by yelling "Contact".
>>
>> You finish an AM transmission in a QSO that is NOT
>> operating fast break-in,
>> and just drop the carrier with no prior warning like a
>> callsign, saying
>> "over", "back to you", "go ahead", etc., leaving the other
>> operator(s)
>> wondering if you lost power or your rig crapped out.
>>
>> You pronounce QRZ.com as "CUE ARE ZEE dot com".
>>
>> You tell someone with a strapping signal he is "wall to
>> wall, treetop tall".
>>
>> You call operating AM "Going to the AM side".
>>
>> You insert "there" between every two or three words in your
>> conversation.
>>
>> You call the phone bands the "SSB bands".
>>
>> You think the ideal horizontal antenna is the G5RV, and the
>> ideal 160m
>> vertical is 43 ft. tall.
>>
>>
>>
>> Depending on your knowledge, experience and attitude as an
>> amateur operator,
>> what others can you think of?
>>
>>
>> Don k4kyv
>>
>>
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