My idea of the average 'ham' is an overweight old guy, who lives in a house that looks abandoned, with a $20,000 tower/antenna setup, he drives a 15 year old car, dirty inside and out, that has many strange looking antenna's on it. The trunk is FILLED with the strangest assortment of things!
His garage is filled with WW2 or older totaly rusted out radio gems, as is the basement. I dont fit the description at all, at least, not yet.... Brett N2DTS ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service'" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 4:12 PM Subject: RE: [AMRadio] Hamfest creeps That's sad. Are these guys really hams or want to be hams and CBers? I can remember not so long ago when a ham radio operator was a very well respected member of society who had the ability to perform magic with radios and considered to be very bright. Do you suppose the CB revolution and all of the riff-raff (not to say there weren't and are a lot of good CB operators) it exposed society to has forever tainted the image of a good, CLEAN and HONEST ham radio operator? What a shame if it has. Rick/K5IAR For several years I carried a VHS camera to Dayton and other hamfests and made it a point to tape those types of losers. Then replayed at various club meetings, etc. A friend once stated that if a bomb landed on the Dayton Convention Center the nations gene pool would be dramatically improved! One time at Dayton I had several tables set up and another ham helping. One fat creep came by in a motorized wheel chair and he was noticed helping himself to my items. We both went and confronted him and he started making a scene. It ended when we flipped him out of his chair and all sorts of goodies rolled out. Security called a cop over and they hauled him off. Carl KM1H ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
