[SixClub] 6-meter amp is sold and the contest is "When?"

[Roger (K8RI)]

kd4e wrote:
> Can you load up the runners on a sled?  ;-)
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Hey! That reminds me, when I was a kid we actually had a "cutter" that 
was in very good shape stored overhead in the small barn. We gave it to 
my uncle (my mother's brother) as they still used a team of horses into 
the 70's. although the majority of their work was done by his son and 
grand sons with the big tractors, Clarance still cultivated beans the 
first time through with the horses and a cultivator he could ride on.  
It was some times comical as he'd get the horses headed down a half mile 
long field and then fall asleep. When they'd get to the other end the 
horses would just stand there until Clarence would wake up and get them 
headed back. Then he'd go back to sleep.  Doing that on a tractor was a 
good way to get a bad case of what we called "cultivator blight" <:-))

If there is a job that requires fewer brain cells than cultivating beans 
the first time through, I haven't found it yet.
Early one season (in the 50's) I was moving slowly across the field in 
the heat and about half asleep. Suddenly there was a tremendous roar and 
I spun around to look behind me while stomping on the brakes to minimize 
the "cultivator blight".  There was a huge cloud of dust forming with an 
T-33 (or F-80) pulling up. He had to have been within a few feet of the 
ground. He was probably laughing all the way back to the base.

If you really need to know, it was a rather bad case of "cultivator 
blight" and it took me some time to find and get back lined up with the 
proper rows before continuing on.

73

Roger (K8RI)
>> Back to the contest: I was thinking of just sticking up a 1/4 wave 
>> vertical for the contest as I've had good luck with them, but there's a 
>> foot and a half of snow out there that's really slippery and the ground 
>> is uneven.  Out temps are just getting above freezing for highs which is 
>> well above normal for this time of year and makes walking on it like 
>> walking on grease. That left leg is working pretty good on flat ground 
>> that ISN'T slippery. <:-))
>> Whether I get on or not, I hope the band opens and you all "work the world"
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>> 73
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>> Roger (K8RI)
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