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

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And I thought I was old!

Wat are a: PS: Neener, Neener.??

Bob k5sit 73

 ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "AC5UP" <ac5up at windstream.net>
To: "Discussion of OKDXA" <okdxa at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 9:16 PM
Subject: [OKDXA] Well, Mister RH... Ya' Had To Go And Make It Personal...


> 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.
> 
> Disclaimer: Some of the assertions in this e-mail may not be completely 
> accurate. The reader should conduct independent research into the 
> validity of any claim made here to verify its accuracy.
> 
> 
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