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Comment by Scott Bidstrup on September 4, 2012 at 9:10am

Down here in Costa Rica, we refer to the nightly ranters on 75m. as the "finqueros cerdos" - the "pig farmers."  Most seem to display a level of ignorance suggesting that their only contact with education is a weekly trip down from the hills to town to visit the grocery store. They make me embarrassed to be a gringo ham down here, frankly.

Nice to meet you, James.  Look for me on 17m and 30m PSK if you are ever on that mode.

73, Scott - TI3/W7RI

Comment by Kevin Morgan on September 4, 2012 at 8:55am

Yeah, 75 meters is especially rant filled.  Nice to meet you.

Kevin AB2ZI

Comment by James Kz on September 4, 2012 at 7:04am

Well, I have not set up my station yet since I moved to Nebraska, but I will be soon. And lo! There are in fact freethinkers and atheists in ham radio (you wouldn't guess by listening to HF).

73, James, N4XMH

Comment by Scott Bidstrup on May 19, 2011 at 11:10pm

Yeah, sure, I'd like to get my hands on some of that gear.  But mostly, I can't wait for the Rapture, because it means we'll finally be rid of those sactimonious, self-righteous sonsabitches.  Any hell that Jesus has stored up for us in the post-Rapture era can't be any worse than putting up with their endless hypocritical moralizing and control freakery. 

 

And as an added bonus - we get 75 meters back!  With all that new gear to boot!  Sounds like heaven to me!

Comment by Nils R. Bull Young on May 17, 2011 at 8:09am

Dayton Hamvention starts Friday, 20 May and runs through 22 May. Think of all the stuff we can loot up on come Sunday when the raptured have departed. And while I'm at it, what's the grid square of Heaven? Or Hell, for that matter?

Comment by Scott Bidstrup on May 8, 2011 at 7:04am

I haven't heard anything on that sked either, Huck.  Dunno whazzup with that...

 

Kevin, I am a big fan of antenna modeling, too.  Been using MultiNEC, which is kinda buggy, but is a modeler's dream - you can set up to three variables and then let it calculate a range of test cases for you.  That is a FABULOUS tool - you can get to an optimum design pretty quickly that way.  Too bad it is not being supported anymore.

Comment by Huck Keithline on May 7, 2011 at 9:57pm

Are the crazies still meeting on Friday evenings?  Finally remembered to show up, but no one else did this time. SSB I assume?

Comment by Scott Bidstrup on April 2, 2011 at 10:42pm

10 PM Eastern is a bit late for us old geezers. I'm in bed and cutting Zs by then. Might be more participation at an earlier hour. Or if it were every night. Or preferably both. That would give me a reason to put up a decent antenna for 75. Would certainly be better than listening to reactionary old pig farmers in Texas complaining endlessly about "godless Marxist-fascist queers."

Comment by Nils R. Bull Young on April 2, 2011 at 9:08pm

The usual gang of crazies showed up Friday night last, 10 p.m. Eastern. I keep thinking there could be more. 3.675 MHz. Every Friday.

Comment by Nils R. Bull Young on March 1, 2011 at 2:45pm

First off, do it. And you should have bought a transceiver kit. No, maybe not. If you're old enough to have a serious range of essential tremor things going on, building a kit -- any kit -- is sure to make any intervention group close up shop.

My wife leaves the house when I build things. Yeah, it's that bad.

Just do the test, get on the air and, since you don't need CW any more, advance through the ranks until you are schooled in all the mysteries. Even if you have to memorize the more commonly posed questions & hope that you make accurate guesses.

That's how I did it.

3s & good health!

Nils/W8IJN

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