[OKDXA] Well, Mister RH... Ya' Had To Go And Make It Personal...

[AC5UP]

This afternoon I'm moving some junque around and realize I have a 
perfectly good Kenwood 7950 2 Meter FM rig and six amp Astron power 
supply (with a Motorola logo on the front) just sitting around gathering 
dust. Sure would be easy to put the two together with a rubber duck on 
the back, and probably more than good enough to make the local repeater 
in BA. Especially since the BA machine isn't toned and neither is the 
K'woodie.

I did, and sure enough, when I threw out my call on top of a smokin' 
five watts the repeater kerchunked back at me. Full scale on RX, too.

Around 7pm I hear a net starting up and I decide to check in for the 
count. Net control has trouble copying my call. Net control tells me I'm 
light into the machine. OK, no prob, when I'm running a duck an entire 
universe is out there in terms of "something better".

About 10 minutes after I did my thing with net control here comes ol' 
K5RH with an attitude. Refers to me as his old friend.

Well, no problem with the friend part... But, old? C'mon now, Ross, 
you're so old that your pet rock calls you Dad. You're so old that you 
could hold a patent on the wheel if you had thought of it when you were 
a kid. You're so old that if someone told you to act your age, you'd 
probably die...

Old. Hmppppff.

Then he goes on to tell the net that I have a lousy signal. As if that's 
a bad thing. It would be the sign of an old mind, a careless mind, to 
not appreciate my motives for a lousy signal. I'm fair and take pride in 
that. I treat everyone alike and I've put lousy signals into almost all 
bands, all modes, all states, all continents and radiated some 
legendarily bad signals into more than a few DX locations. It would be 
pure hypocrisy if I put a good signal into the local repeater and could 
ruin my radio reputation. Even my cordless phone has a bad signal, and 
that's what I call attention to detail. It has taken years of hard work 
and dedication to make my call synonymous with a lousy signal and I'm 
not about to risk that for a local net!

So now you know. The legend continues.

PS: Neener, Neener.

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