[Lowfer] Locked on 185.301000 Khz.

Wed, 02 Oct 2002 16:54:49 -0400

I scared my wife this morning when I yelled
" I Got VD!!!"


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay Rusgrove" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 1:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] Locked on 185.301000 Khz.


> John
>
> Whew! I have just returned home from my brief stay in the asylum. Imagine the
> hard time I had convincing the doctors that there was nothing wrong with
> me...all the while pounding my fist on their desks screaming, "IT'S MY HZ, IT'S
> MY HZ, IT'S MY HZ". Doctors are screaming back "What hurts?", What hurts?, What
> hurts?" I yell "301, 301, 301, IT'S MY HZ, IT'S MY HZ, IT'S MY HZ". A vicious
> cirle indeed, not unlike a twisted Monty Python routine.
>
> Twasn't cesium after all, but rubidium! Trace amounts apparently leaked from my
> frequency standard leading to bizarre, yet not completely irrational, behavior.
> All is slowly returning back to normal...seems like just a distant dream now...
>
> Jay Rusgrove
> 185.301 VD
>
> John Andrews wrote:
>
> > Dear Mr. Rusgrove,
> >
> > You are exhibiting one of the symptoms of acute cesium poisoning. Seek
> > medical treatment immediately. You are making hyperfine transitions in and
> > out of reality. Thus far, it is a mild case, with only the delusion that you
> > own 1 Hz of spectrum. If left untreated, the disorder will increase the
> > bandwidth.
> >
> > In the final stages of the disease, the victim can only be employed as a net
> > control operator. While the syndrome is not inherently fatal, it may lead to
> > bizarre behavior that produces that result. Take the case of the poor fellow
> > that was horribly electrocuted while trying to slip ferrite beads over a 300
> > kV power line, while screaming "Kill the PLC's...Kill the PLC's..."
> >
> > John Andrews, W1TAG
> >
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