I suppose victim was yaesu'ed into buying it off ms ellie craft...hi Ken..G0ORH
Sent from my iPhone On 10 Feb 2010, at 11:16, [email protected] wrote: > In a related incident, another ham-radio enthusiast, Hezekiah > Bambershoot, > of Ft Jackson, was arrested at police headquarters for disorderly > conduct > and assaulting a police officer. Bambershoot initially came to > headquarters reporting he had been victimized buying a radio from a > mysterious > Californian named Ellie Craft. > > Ms Craft allegedly took advantage of Bambershoot by claiming to have > down-conversion which he mistook for a syndrome of the same name. > Bambershoot > was happy with his purchase until his friends told him how foolish > he had > been. > > According to Police spokesman, Ken Wood, "The poor man was > distraught and > raving about roofing filters. What the heck are they?" The arrest > report > filed by fellow-ham and officer, Ike Com, listed Bambershoot's > original > complaint as "radio mushiness" but notes, "I told him all my radios > sound > mushy but he was upset he couldn't hear it on his. When we tried > to calm him > down he became unruly." > > Su Yae, an EMT called to the scene, defended Bambershoot saying, > "When I > got there he was on the floor repeating 'A, G, C, Slope, Pre and A > T T' over > and over. He was babbling. They claimed he was clicking his heels > but I > didn't hear anything. The poor man was just frustrated because his > purchase had so many faults he couldn't find. I feel sorry for him." > > Bambershoot is being held on $10,000 bond. Police are still > searching for > the elusive Ellie Craft. > > Buck > k4ia > > In a message dated 2/9/2010 6:22:54 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > MAN HOSPITALIZED WITH ANXIETY OVER HAM RADIO > > Southland County Morning News > > Southland -- A ham radio enthusiast was admitted to County Hospital > today > suffering from anxiety over what he perceived as serious problems > with his > new radio, authorities reported Tuesday. > > Irv Stumpo, 55, of East Pharsalia, checked into the emergency room > "in > distress," according to the nurse on watch just before midnight > Tuesday. "He > was perspiring profusely and moaning over and over, 'My K-3 is no > good, no > good'," said Paula Stevens, a nurse at County. "He had enormous > headphones > clamped tightly on his head which we had a ton of difficulty > removing, and > he was also wearing ear buds," she said. "Isn't that strange? He > was half > incoherent but kept mumbling something about dynamic range and audio > artifacts. I have no idea what that means." > > Randy LaHood, a fifteen year emergency room veteran, said that > during an > examination Mr. Stumpo went into considerable technical detail > about a radio > he had recently purchased from Elecraft, a company that makes high- > end ham > radios. "He began by explaining that his radio had 'noisy receiver' > and > 'mushy signals'," explained Dr. LaHood. "From what I could gather, > he had > just spent a lot of money on a radio and hadn't actually noticed > any of these > problems himself, but others in a internet group kept putting the > ideas > into his head," he said. Over a course of weeks, Stumpo became > distraught over > various imperfections in what Dr. LaHood said was a classic case of > the > power of suggestion. > > The hospital records also said that Stumpo drew mathematical > figures he > labeled "AGC slope", and filled four pages by writing "AGC off", "Ear > Isolation" and "K3" repeatedly. Hospital officials could not > explain the cryptic > scribblings. > > Dr. LaHood said that Stumpo repeated the phrase "mushy AGC" for at > least > four hours while he waited for treatment. Other patients who were > in the > waiting room at the time moved to the other side of the room for > fear he might > endanger them. J. B. Archer was one of those in the waiting room at > the > time who had brought in his twelve-year-old son with a basketball > injury. > "Good ol' boy was pretty upset, I just told him it would be > alright, but he > wouldn't let up with 'I can't pick out the pileups'. I thought he > had been > involved in a big accident on the highway. Then he said other > things like > 'the impedance of my headphones' and 'ride the R. F. gain'. Then he > started > with 'diversity problem' and I thought maybe he was having trouble > with > racial relations. He was in terrible shape, I'll tell you that." > > Rick Culver, president of a local ham radio club, told the Morning > News in > a telephone interview, "A lot of these guys spend five or ten thousand > dollars on a radio they think is going to be absolutely perfect in > every > conceiveable way. When it's not, they go into a panic buying lots of > other > accessories which promise to fix the issue they think they're > having. This is > followed by a deep buyer's remorse." He went on to recount a recent > case which > epitomized this effect. "We had one guy who had a radio that put out > 95 > watts instead of 100. He went berserk and ended up smashing his > radio with a > baseball bat. Not everyone gets that violent, but he never would have > worried about it if it hadn't been for an internet forum that > drummed it into > his head twenty four seven that his radio was broken." > > Hospital officials said that Stumpo was treated with sedatives and is > being kept for observation. > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
