[SOC] Wisdom come over from AMPS reflector

[Michael Coslo]

On 8/19/10 10:36 PM, "D.J.J. Ring, Jr." <n1ea at arrl.net> wrote:

> Tubes?  My word, I thought you were talking about tooting from eating too
> many beans.
> 
> Beans, beans - the musical fruit, the Morse you eat, the less you sound like
> spark gap.
> 
> If you eat a big can of B&M beans, you can get the frequency up to about
> 2,500 Hz if you eat them with crushed hot peppers mixed in.

Didn't Johnny Cash make a song about that?

I fell into a burning ring of fire,
I ate beans, beans, beans,
And the smell grew more dire,
And it burns, burns, burns,
That ring of ire, that ring of fire.

    - Mike -