[HoustonHam] Uh ohhhh, NOT good news!!

[Brian K. Gaskamp]

I believe this is false due to the date it was written, April 1st.


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From: "Chris Boone" <cboone at earthlink.net>
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Subject: [HoustonHam] Uh ohhhh, NOT good news!!


>
> Solar Cycle 24 Canceled - Ham Radio Operators Furious!!
>
>
> Story written: 1 April 2008
>
> Released: 22 August 2008
> Written by: Dr. Hugo S. Dere
>
> Dayton, Ohio (IPP) - The next solar cycle was assigned the number 24 but 
> has
> been canceled by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Scientists 
> were
> able to predict that this cycle would have been 30% to 50% stronger than 
> the
> previous solar cycle and it would have started a year later than 
> previously
> thought.
>
> Scientists have been unable to accurately predict the intensity of future
> solar cycles until recent times. All of that changed recently when the
> Predictive Flux-transport Model was developed and put into effect. This 
> new
> method is thought to be 98% accurate.
>
> Dr. Povenmire Finootch of the Mount Palomar Astronomical Campus and the
> senior legal representative of the IAU takes full responsibility for
> canceling the next solar cycle and has a black eye to show for it. He
> recently got into a scrap with the head of the North American Ham Radio
> Association, Joe Raydideeo, over the canceling of solar cycle 24. Dr.
> Finootch claims that the IAU has complete authority over anything related 
> to
> the visible as well as the invisible portions of the electromagnetic
> spectrum.
>
> Ham operators take advantage of the increase in solar electromagnetic
> activity by bouncing radio signals off of the ionosphere to each other in
> the form of radio waves which are transmitted via upper and lower sideband
> and cw ( continuous wave or Morse code). When the solar cycle is in full
> swing it is possible for a Ham operator in North America to talk to his
> counterpart in New Zealand using a mere 5 watts.
>
> Dr. Povenmire Finootch admits that he has a black eye but that 
> nevertheless
> he had thoroughly throttled his opponent during a fist fight they had 
> during
> the Ham Operator's Convention (HOC) in Key West last week. The two had
> become embroiled in a fierce argument over whether or not the IAU had any
> business sticking its nose into the business of Ham operators and this
> argument evolved into fisticuffs to the delight of nearby bar patrons.
>
> Dr. Povenmire Finootch seemed to go over the edge when Raydideeo claimed
> that Dr. Finootch would not know the the difference between Ohm's Law vs
> Kepler's Law if it "bit him on the ass". Dr. Finootch replied, "Neither
> would you then!" Dr. Finootch did not realize that the Ham operator had a
> well concealed "hair lip" under his moustache and the Ham operator was
> equally unaware that Dr. Finootch had a wooden eye. The Ham operator
> responded by saying, "Woudn't I, Wouldn't I" to which Doctor Finootch
> replied, " Hair lip, hair lip!" And thus the fight was on!!
>
>
>
>
>
> Some names and part of the story were changed to not protect the innocent
> but to make it sound better J! Note the dateline of it...(Next year, they
> need to put it OUT on the date written).
>
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