[WIARC] county-running funnies

[jim funk]

These were just too good not to pass on.  Comments from AA8HH on experiences
while "putting out counties":

Subject: You forgot these...

Message: 1. Looking into the rear view mirror and seeing your 40 meter
resonator hanging down on the back of the car...base broken and loading coil
starting to unwind.

2. Loosing your 40 meter resonator...Going back to look for it...finding it
laying in the Post Office driveway...and seeing it get run over by another
car while waiting for the same car to turn into the Post Office driveway.

3. Having to explain to every Tom, Dick and Harry what that contraption is
on the back of the car...

4. Having to explain to your XYL why you have to have such a monsterous
contraption on the back of the car...

5. Being told that "Your Yankee Butt ain't welcome here" in Craig, Virginia

6. Reaching down to turn on the radio and noticing that the control head is
missing...remembering that you left it on the desk in the hotel 15 miles
back...trying to explain to a confused hotel clerk why you need to get back
into the room you just vacated because you left your head on the desk.

7. Driving all over trying to find "high ground" to put out a county in West
Virginia

8. Asking a Convenience Store clerk how to pronounce the name of the county
you're in...Gratiot, MI...trying to keep a straight face when she tells you
it's pronounced Grash-hit.

9. Finding a perfect place to run the Catawba/Burke, NC county
line...Discovering that there is unexplained 40 over 9 noise level at the
line. The list goes on and on!!!