[HCARC] Wild Neighborhood Rumors About Ham Radio Operators

[Don Murray via HCARC]

Gale...
 
 
LOVE IT!!  Nothing like "creative" neighbors!!   ;-)
 
73
Don
W4WJ
 
 
In a message dated 8/10/2014 8:16:18 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
galeheise at windstream.net writes:

To  All-

This is a somewhat humorous story from my old neighborhood  in Northern 
Kentucky where I had the following antennas in the back yard  strung up in 
trees:

1.  A top and bottom loaded vertical for  160m.
2.  A 10, 15 & 20 meter 2 element quad.
3.  A 2  element 10 meter X-Quad (Expanded Quad).
4.  A full wavelength  vertically oriented 80 meter loop.
5.  Two phased cross polarized 2  meter antennas for tracking satellites.
6.  An inverted L antenna for  160 meters.  I had to put in ground wires, 
about 90 as I recall, for this  antenna.  I kept them on my own property and 
down the back of the  property to a street in a green belt.

Our daughter is purchasing  a house two doors down from this previous QTH 
and knows the neighbor who now  lives in the home adjacent to the old QTH.

I received the  following email from my daughter tonight after her 
conversation with the next  door neighbor.

Dad,

Funny story- We were at the festival tonight  and we were talking to the 
next-door neighbors – she's the one that used to  babysit for the Hirts. They 
told us they were trying to get firewood out of  the woods one night and got 
stuck in a bunch of wires! They said that the  neighbor across the street 
told them that the neighborhood rumor was that dad  was a Russian spy! LOL😘

My XYL sent a note back to our daughter  asking, why were they collecting 
firewood in the Spy’s backyard.

Take  care,

Gale
KM4DR







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