Subj : Re: Wannbe HAM
To   : Daryl Stout
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Thu Sep 15 2016 08:44 pm

-=> Daryl Stout wrote to TONY LANGDON <=-

 DS>   Like Tim Duffy, K3LR, does. From what I've seen, that is the ULTIMATE
 DS> contester's shack.

Most of mine for that price would be highly automated.  I'm not a contester, I
like building infrastructure. :)

 DS> more than have their money back, especially when they try to sell it.
 DS> So much of "no pecuniary interest". :P

As long as they don't use the radio to sell it. ;)

 DS>   Several years ago, when I ran a local traders net, there was one ham
 DS> who listed the same few items week after week. I never had a problem
 DS> with that individual. Yet, there was another one who had several
 DS> rotating sets of items, as it were. Rumor had it that he was doing it
 DS> as a business, which is a violation of the rules. He confronted me
 DS> once, and said "you're accusing me of running a business"...to which I
 DS> said "I'm not accusing you of anything. But, if the shoe fits, wear
 DS> it!!".

Hmm.  Well, they made it easy here, trading on air is not allowed at all.  In
fact, in the early days of IRLP and Echolink, I had to dump a net or two,
because they had a trading segment.

 DS>   A few nights later, I had a bizarre dream (I don't recall what I ate
 DS> for dinner, and I doubt I was being cannibalistic in eating ham (hi

LOL, and an interesting dream BTW.

 DS>   This ham also sat at one end of the couch, and his son at the other,
 DS> and they were talking to each other on the local wide aread coverage
 DS> repeater, with HT's. I'm still trying to figure out what purpose that
 DS> served. :P

Yeah, that does happen sometimes. ;)

 TL> DS>  þ OLX 1.53 þ E-mail returned to sender...insufficient voltage.

 TL>Maybe that was your problem? ;)

 DS>   I guess I shouldn't have sent it barefoot, and cranked my email
 DS> client up to 1.5 kw (hi hi). I went ahead and tried sending it from the
 DS> BBS's email address...I hope that one works, or I'll have to try
 DS> another one.

Guess propagation was down. :-)
 DS> ---
 DS>  þ OLX 1.53 þ Condoms should be used on every conceivable occasion.

Only when you don't want to conceive. :D


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