[Boatanchors] Boatanchor folks: See?

Tue Dec 18 17:36:55 EST 2012

I'm sure Don knows. He is one of the few that I am aware of in this area. (76 miles wast of Fermi  Labs. 

Before I came here I was confused about this subject.  Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.
Enrico Fermi

On Dec 18, 2012, at 15:51, "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <dfischer at usol.com> wrote:

> And I wonder just how many on this list know who Fermi was? Especially those in Chicago?
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Raymond Cote" <bluegrassdakine at hotmail.com>
> To: "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <dfischer at usol.com>
> Cc: "Boat Anchors List" <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>; "Ken Kaplan" <krkaplan at cox.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 4:27 PM
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> 
>> Nice story Duane. I can relate to it with some antics of my own. He he
>> 
>> 
>> Before I came here I was confused about this subject.  Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.
>> Enrico Fermi
>> 
>> 
>> On Dec 18, 2012, at 14:59, "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <dfischer at usol.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Ken,
>>> 
>>> A true tale -
>>> 
>>> My mother was born and grew up in a small town in northeastern South Dakota named Pierpont. Her brother, my uncle, absolutely hated fireworks. In SD class C fireworks were legal for ten days up, and including, July fourth.
>>> 
>>> My uncle farmed, but prior to that he had been on the Baltimore Orioles roster as a 'closing' or 'middle relief' left handed pitcher. His name? Some will remember Darryl Johnson.
>>> 
>>> I had a lot of talent and He got me a spring tryout with the Orioles AAA farm club, the Aberdeen Pheasants. They played in Aberdeen, SD for their home games. I was very excited about being given at least a chance. I was not a pitcher, rather a centerfielder.
>>> 
>>> Now my five years younger brother saw uncle Darryl walking toward his pickup truck, and us! Bob had seen somebody light and throw a firecracker on the ground near us. It never went off. Poor Robert had just picked it up when he saw his uncle come out of the drug store and walk toward him! He panicked and stuck the firecracker
>>> in the right hand front pocket of his Wrangler jeans. We all got into the pickup truck and uncle Darryl started to drive down main street. All of a sudden ... KABOOM! That firecracker in Bob's pocket exploded! Uncle Daryll jumped a foot and probably had to change his Fruit Of The Looms briefs when he got back to the farm!
>>> 
>>> My little brother turned more pale than Casper The Friendly Ghost! More from the terror of Uncle Darryl getting angry than the firecracker exploding in his right front pocket!
>>> 
>>> Everybody got out of the truck and uncle Darryl looked at little Robert's jeans. There was a hole in the pocket that looked like someone had peeled a banana! There was a little puff of smoke coming from that hole every now and then! Uncle Darryl had Bob drop his jeans and looked at his leg. Hey! Pierpont only had a population of a thousand and whomever counted the population for the census must have counted chickens, hogs, horses and cattle along with people living in farms outside the city limits to get a population of a thousand!
>>> 
>>> It was bruised and already turning black and blue! Some skin abrasions too. Nothing serious, fortunately! That firecracker exploded only about one inch from little Robert's right testicle! My little brother almost never had a chance for a low voice or children one day down the road!
>>> 
>>> I will never ever forget that image of Bob standing there looking both sheepish and terror stricken with that banana peeling like hole in those jeans and smoke coming out around his ankle! Did that stop my little brother from playing with fireworks? Heck no! Well, at least not until his eighth grade Health teacher explained what a testicle was!
>>> 
>>> - Original Message ----- From: "Ken Kaplan" <krkaplan at cox.net>
>>> To: "Boat Anchors List" <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 12:05 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Boatanchor folks: See?
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Um Duane, don't forget the fuse if it's still left after that Black Cat!
>>>> 
>>>> On 12/17/2012 10:54 PM, Duane Fischer, W8DBF wrote:
>>>>> As I recall from my middle teenage years, a well positioned Black Cat
>>>>> 1.5 inch firecracker worked very well when it came to the extraction of
>>>>> hard to get at capacitors or resistors. Since the extracted item was in
>>>>> a multitude of pieces, trying to test it for value, voltage handling
>>>>> etc. was rather futile! Play it safe, replace all of them! Then if the
>>>>> unit fails to work, you know it is due to a shorting power cord, as that
>>>>> is all that remains that you have niether tested and/or replaced!
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