[AMRadio] Occupy Fifteen Meters

[Rob Atkinson]

you might be a true AMer if:

you don't own anything that can tx or rx slopbucket
you never operate above 40 m. and don't understand why anyone wants to
you transmit until the tube envelopes (GLASS only please) on the PA
finals no longer have anything printed on them
you spend all of your time in the flea market at hamfests and never go
inside where the commercial vendors are
you can't fathom why anyone would want to buy one of those modern
little rice or rice-a-roni boxes that can't be repaired without a
microscope
your happiest day was getting a good deal on a modulation reactor
you dream of getting on the cover of Electric Radio
you wonder what the heck Logbook of the World and eQSL are
you won a packet modem at a hamfest and have no idea what to do with it
you went to a club meeting and dozed off during the demonstration of PSK31
you dozed off again the following month during the talk about six and
ten meter operating
you see nothing wrong with removing a wall to get a broadcast rig in
your basement
you cannot imagine a ham shack anywhere other than a basement
you think Flex Radio is some body building show
you wouldn't be caught dead with a manufactured antenna
you think balun is how they say "balloon" in some foreign country
you make repairs to your Viking 2 while the other guy is transmitting


Rob
K5UJ


On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 7:30 PM,  <manualman at juno.com> wrote:
> What's a "true AM'er"? Is it, one that 9 tons of boatanchor stuff in
> their shack; one that presses the AM button on their solid-state rig more
> then once a month; or one that starts an AM transmission and goes on and
> on and on and on until the markings burn off the glass of the final
> tubes??
>
> Pete, wa2cwa