Radio "Off" brings back memories. A few years back,
a good ham friend of ours, with whom we had a daily
ragchew on the Baltimore Beltway, told us this
story:
"Following our sometimes long ragchew on 2 meters,
on one of Baltimore's famous repeaters - he drove
a little farther north on his 58 mile daily commute
toward his home in Pennsylvania (Stewartstown, PA),
at the end of his workday. Ah ... the Baltimore
County repeater (K3SP) had activity. A younger
voice was on, in a QSO. Sounded familiar he thought.
He listened for while - but the talking went on and
on. He wondered who this ham was? He even heard some
familiar names mentioned? .......
Turns out his 5 year old, at home, had turned on his 2
meter rig - and was talking on the rig "like Daddy
always does"!
The only other "rig off" incident, happened to me
on a Saturday night - when I took the wife out to
dinner. While on our trip south, I was explaining
how our local repeater and its gang worked. I
even mentioned names and characters, and even
told her about a couple of cranky ones. Turns out
my 2 meter rig was on, and keyed - throughout
that whole personal conversation. I guess all
of Baltimore got wind of our converstation that
night! Wonder what else I said that night?
Fred, de N3CSY
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