[Lowfer] Locked on 185.301000 Khz.

Wed, 02 Oct 2002 17:29:27 -0400

Larry

Yes, I would imagine so. BTW, thanks for the capture this morning. Looking good down
there. You may notice intermittant outages in VD as I shut the TX down for receive
antenna testing.

Jay

Larry Putman wrote:

> 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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