[HCARC] Wild Neighborhood Rumors About Ham Radio Operators

[Kerry Sandstrom]

Gale,

Great story.  Does your daughter now deny that she knows you, much less 
that you're her father?

So, you're from Georgia, the one who's capital is Tbilisi not Atlanta!

You were fortunate to be in northern Kentucky, other places might have 
suspected you were using that radio stuff to talk to the mother ship on 
the far side of the moon or using it to report the locations of stills 
and marijuana plantations to the Feds.

Kerry


On 8/10/2014 8:12 PM, galeheise at windstream.net wrote:
> To All-
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>    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:
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> 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.
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>    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.
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>    I received the following email from my daughter tonight after her conversation with the next door neighbor.
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> Dad,
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> 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😘
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>    My XYL sent a note back to our daughter asking, why were they collecting firewood in the Spy’s backyard.
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> Take care,
>
> Gale
> KM4DR
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