[SOC] Texas legislation rumors

Sun, 3 Aug 2003 16:38:03 -0400

I actually have QSO'd with quite a few hams who run CW *while* driving. My
guess is at least 15-20 in the last 5 years of recent memory. One I talk
with often is a cross-country trucker driving an 18-wheeler! I don't have
the concentration to try it, even if I felt it was safe... which I don't
(for me). I wear headphones whenever I'm on CW for that reason... CW takes
up just too much of my brain.  Listening to 2m FM conversation takes
little... VERY little. :-)

73,

Mark W1EOF

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> Subject: Re: [SOC] Texas legislation rumors
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> Sorry, forgot to mention these:
>
> Paul wrote:  "Ninetynine times out of a hundred nothing will come of using
> a 'phone or rig
> whilst driving."  A good point.  I am prpared to begin answering my phone
> in the car only 99 consecutive times, ignoring the 100th ring.  Wouldn't
> want to tempt fate.  (This is similar to the idea of comedians Bob Elliot
> and Ray Goulding.  After they discovered that most accidents occur during
> trips of less than 25 miles, they resolved never again to travel
> such short
> distances.)
>
> I had a colleague who kept a spent 1.5 volt cell in his desk drawer.  When
> he wanted to go somewhere and avoid being disturbed, he'd slip it into his
> pager.  If anyone complained that he couldn't be reached, he'd look at the
> pager and say, "Darn, the battery must be dead."
>
> Remember the WWII US Army surplus leg clamp with the J-37 key attached?
> Did anyone else operate CW mobile, or was I the only lunatic around?  (No,
> not while driving....)
>
> 73
> John WA6QPL  SOC 263
>
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