[R-390] YOU DO NOT WANT TO COME TO THE SOUTH

[rkofler at aol.com]

In my opinion, this baloney is way off the topic of this list.

Roger
K7DDG

-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn <wa4aos at aol.com>
To: r-390 <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thu, Aug 18, 2011 12:36 pm
Subject: [R-390] YOU DO NOT WANT TO COME TO THE SOUTH


  Having lived in the South My entire life, I can tell all of you folks 
not from here this is one more horrible place to live! ! !
Please don't visit, vacation or otherwise travel to our pitiful corner 
of the country. The Warm climate and easy access to both mountains and 
oceans and all of the large lakes loaded with fish,
  will distract you from listening to the good ole boys on 75-meters.  
Our close proximity to major interstate highways will only give you 
reason to get on the road and visit some of our wonderful southern 
cities, like Atlanta, Columbus,  Charlotte, Asheville, Wilmington, 
Raleigh, Miami, Daytona, Orlando, Birmingham, Huntsville, Knoxville, 
Nashville, Richmond, Roanoke, Columbia, Myrtle Beach, Louisville, 
Lexington and many others. Again, decreasing your monitoring time to 
the aforementioned 75-meter QSO's.
The plethora of excellent universities, will be of little use to those 
reading this reflector, anyway, since most readers are above 40 and 
already FULLY educated..I am speculating here.
Our friendly and cheerful folks will only allow you to make more 
friends and once more keep you from monitoring 75-meters.

The amazingly low property taxes we pay here in the pitiful south would 
only force you to buy more R 390A's, as pretty much all REAL southern 
Hams own, then you will have to buy a larger house. You are better off 
just giving those dollars to the tax collectors and not deal with the 
accululation of radio boxes, boats, tractors, guns and dawgs.
Our lower land and property prices allow many of us to buy acreage and 
we have to hassle with towers and beams and quads and antenna farms and 
cutting grass and having cookouts and in many cases peeing in our front 
yards and not being seen by anyone..

Many of us in the South are disliked by our current president since 
most of us own weapons and know how to use them, Most of us do not 
subscribe to the idea of. "goo to you by way of the zoo,"   thus 
believing in a higherpower we call GOD, So,  many of us do have guns 
and Bibles.. That alone makes southerners undesirable folks to mingle 
with, especially,  if you show up on our properties during the wee 
hours of the morning to steal our toys. After our Coon's and German 
Shepard's chase you down and we make target practice of your fanny, we 
will open the good book and say a few words over your sorry carcass 
before we feed you to the hogs.

Truly, living here in the south has it's hardships and the extra money 
we have is a real burden. We have to make decisions like, do I want 40) 
R 390A's and 20) R 390's or do I want 60) R 390A's and 40) R 390's.. 
It's rough to live here and you are better off not even thinking about 
moving to the south as SO MANY of your fellow citizens from the north, 
in particular,  have already done to escape, high prices, taxes and 
snow.  Yea, we usually only have enough snow for things to be pretty 
for 2 or 3 days and then  it goes away.. But, please don't worry about 
us poor ole southerners; we have our crosses to bear and we do the best 
we can..

We don't have Boston baked beans and we don't know our tax collectors 
by name but we are getting by.. Please stay in your neck of the woods 
and don't curse yourself with our hardships..

And to North Carolina Tom.... Tom I am still waiting on your inventory, 
( 4-years now,) of over 100) R 390A's. I am catching up with a combined 
count of 122 pieces Combination's of R 390, 390A, 391, 392 and 389's..
What can I say, it's rough to live here in the SOUTH ! ! !

Glenn WA4AOS
DSM LABS
Laurens, SOUTH CAROLINA
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