[Heathkit] OFF TOPIC QUERY

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

How bad is the plasma? Well I am totally blind and get the audio through my 
talking microwave! At first I thought the MW was swearing at me for cooking 
on the wrong heat range! However, I dismissed that thought when I was 
crawling on the living room floor feeling the carpet for something I had 
dropped and suddenly thought I was having psychic visions from Aliens! There 
were all sorts of swirling colors in my mind's eye, a low buzz with 
indistinct voices just below the noise floor and then a commercial for some 
'improve your abdominal tone' with this girdle like thing that you wore and 
it tone your gut by giving you electrical shocks to exercise the muscles! At 
first I thought it was that TV dinner I ate with those little franks and 
spicy baked beans causing some gas to backup between my ears and cause 
lustful desires. But like who gets cranked up over a gut girdle that 
electrocutes you while causing sporadic bladder leaks that trickle down your 
legs! I knew it had to be for real when the guy doing the commercial at a 
speech rate indicative of amphetamine use asked for your credit card number, 
bank routing number, blood type, how many teeth you still had, your age in 
months and Social Security number in triplicate!

I wonder if they will ever fix that quirk of causing the garage doors in my 
neighborhood to open when you change channels with the TV remote? Although 
that is not nearly as annoying as my new water saving pink porcelin throne 
that has voice recognition and 'flushes' on command or when you press the 
mute button on the TV remote! My grandson's girlfriend was using the 
facilities when he hit the mute button to call in a pizza delivery. When 
that pink porcelin wonder did an automatic flush she screamed so loud it 
shattered my cheap crystal goblets from the 'blue light special' and that 
poor girl shot out of the bathroom like a July fourth skyrocket coming out 
of a morter tube and was five houses down the street before my grandson 
caught up to her with her clothes!

Duane W8DBF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike McCarthy, W1NR" <mike at w1nr.net>
To: <mrapps at grandrapids-mn.com>; <kenwood at mailman.qth.net>; 
<heathkit at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 6:47 PM
Subject: RE: [Heathkit] OFF TOPIC QUERY


> First of all DON'T buy a plasma TV!  They are terrible RFI generators that
> will render your radio reception useless.
>
> Current stations are assigned UHF digital channels but most will switch 
> back
> to the current VHF analog channels in 2009.
>
> Mike, W1NR
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: heathkit-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:heathkit-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of
> mrapps at grandrapids-mn.com
> Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 6:34 PM
> To: kenwood at mailman.qth.net; heathkit at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [Heathkit] OFF TOPIC QUERY
>
> Hi OMs
>
> My beloved Sharp TV said "phssst" and died.  I might as well replace it 
> with
> an HDTV device.  Where in the spectrum are the HDTV channels located?  If
> UHF, I may be too far from a transmitter for it to work.
>
> KoDCF / Tony
>
> IN God we trust
>
>
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