Barry Sherwood wrote:
I used to tell folks the bugcatcher and capacity hat
were for receiving HBO!
Most believed it too.
Barry, KF5GC
Everyone asks me "who you talking to with that thing? Mars?"
The most asked question is "how far can you talk?"
When I tell 'em "half-way around the world", they get a blank look on
their face, as if to say "only half-way?" Then I say "Think about it -
if I go any further, then I'm not talking as far."
That leaves 'em thinking. Very few 'get it', until I explain that
talking more than half-way around the world means I'm not talking as far
as half-way around the world, which is as far as I can reach, from that
particular spot.
I do tell 'em that the best distance (DX) I've had from the mobile, is
Chattham Island (900km off the coast of New Zealand) which was the same
night I worked the Cape of Good Hope, in South Africa, while sitting on
the Shores of the Gulf Coast of Mexico, in Pascagula, Mississippi,
looking over the water at 10:30pm.
It was a good night, for barefoot (100w) SSB on 17m.
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73 = Best Regards,
-Geoff/W5OMR
