[Boatanchors] The SSSOBs Inspire Me Again

[Al Klase]

Here, here!!!

But, where is the Old man now that we really need him?

Al

Al Klase – N3FRQ
Jersey City, NJ
http://www.skywaves.ar88.net/

On 4/24/2016 4:47 PM, David Stinson wrote:
> Amazing how with 400 KC of available, mostly empty band space, the 
> SSSOBs must squat in the AM window.
> One good thing, though:  It inspires my corny-song-writing eccentricites.
> Now if I could only hire some backup singers....
>
> How many remember Marty Robbins and "Big Iron?"
> ----------------------
>
> Big Iron on The Air
> (3 DE AB5S)
>
> To Thirty Eight Ninety came
> a new Old Man one day.
> And the hams all gather round to hear
> just what he had to say.
> Then they looked at their S-meters
> and it stood up all their hair.
> The Old Man there among them had
> The Big Iron on the air.
> Big Iron on the air.
>
> Now lurking in the shadows was
> a guy named Sideband Sid.
> He hated all AMers and
> he'd jam them like a lid.
> The hams said the law would catch him
> but the Feds just didn't care.
> Sid said he'd jam The Old Man with The Big Iron on the air.
> Big Iron on the air.
>
> Was seven in the evening and
> was time for them to meet.
> Sid started playing Slow Scan and
> said he was never beat.
> Sideband Sid had a signal,
> was S-9 and maybe 10,
> but The Old Man threw The Big Switch and was 50 Over then!
> 50 Over then.
>
> It was over in a moment and the hams all gathered round.
> Sideband Sid had QRTed and he made not another sound.
> Oh, he might have gone on Querming,
> but he made a fatal err,
> when he tried to jam The Old Man with
> The Big Iron on the air.
> Big Iron on the air.
>
> Big Iron, Big Iron.
> When he tried to jam The Old Man with
> The Big Iron on the air.
> Big Iron on the air.
>
>
>
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