Some years ago I was a volunteer fireman in a small Upstate NY town. On one of
our pumpers, a '58 Mack, one of the two (redundancy, y'know) battery strings
(two huge 6V batteries in series) was self-discharging if the rig sat idle in
the barn for more than two or three days. Determined to find
I, too could tell my stupid stories that have
occured over my 41 year ham career, but I won't bore
you; you're operating time is too valuable:-) But I
will say that I adopted a philosophy a number of years
ago that has covered me many times. It is that I
always reserve the right to be wrong,
Classic Homers of mine:
- Climb tree, install halyard rope for antenna. Forget to tie rope ends
together. Climb down tree,
breeze shakes tree, short end of rope goes up and over branch.
Climb tree *again*
- Two lovely NOS 837 tubes, ready to sell. Neat-and-clean but
Jim wrote:
- Two lovely NOS 837 tubes, ready to sell. Neat-and-clean but
not-perfectly-level
workbench. Concrete basement floor.
One lovely NOS 837 tube, ready to sell.
Well, at least it wasn't a 211, 25, 2A3, or some other vintage tube made rare
only due to vacuum tube audiofool demand.
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To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 1:49:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] One more on the stupid thread
Classic Homers of mine:
- Climb tree, install halyard rope for antenna. Forget to tie rope ends
together. Climb down tree,
breeze shakes tree, short end of rope goes up
On Jan 3, 2006, at 9:45 AM, Albers wrote:
It was at that moment that I discovered that Mack trucks of that
vintage had positive ground!! Ever see a box end wrench instantly
get converted to an open end??
This reminds me of a slightly apocryphal story. At a telephone
office, a fellow was
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