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Gary,
         After bragging that you never worry about antenna icing or swr, you dissapeared in mid sentence after saying "Oh Oh!". What Happened?? Inquiring minds want to now! ;D

                                                                      The Slab Bacon             
                                                                                                               

OK SA

Sorry to inform you and now the entire AM community it wasn't vswr associated.

The problem is somewhere in the HV section on the transmitter. I wouldn't work on it last night after the wine.

I will issue a press release to the New York Times when I figure it out Frank.

Oh, we never got any icing or much snow up here yesterday.

That was the first "on the air" crap out I have had in 19 years. 

Thanks

huh-HA  !!!!
After the whine, indeed.
You really have to quit yer boozin' , Gary.
Last night you were seeing purple haze coming off your rectifier tubes, and spent an 18min transmission describing a swirl of light and dark shading inside the tubes that appeared to be moving as you spoke.

Made my flesh crawl, real horror-movie, plasmatron stuff.

It's on tape of course.

Leave me alone. I have a headache for some reason!

Sorry, G, but I just couldnt resist!!  ;D ;D No One is safe!  That's part of being an AMer.  The sound of your "Oh Oh" last night before your dissapearance was definately not what I expected to hear.

And, Er, furthermore..........................whats a little crapout amongst friends!! ;D ;D

happenz to the best of us from time to time.

                                                                                The Slab Bacon

that was usually the Yl's excuse :o :o

Impossible !  There's no way a vacuum tube rig could ever have a crapout  :D ;D ;) 8)

Seriously, all the best, G !  Hope you fix it SOON.

Regards,

Steve

Paul, I am offended that you would give Gary a hard time for his phantasmagoric tube light show observations. I personaly like to load up heavy enough that the plates become transparent enough to see the electrons bouncing off the grids......you HAVE seen that haven't you?
Oh I forgot, you run carbon, not tantalum anodes.
If your carbon is glowing
you better get going.

Sorry I missed you all last night
Skip

Wow!

I can feel the love  :D

My real concern is that I think this disqualifies me from the MSDS group. ;D

Hope everything is OK. Ralph/GL checked in and gave us a report on your crap out. Too bad, the band really came around. Frank came up out of the noise and held at or near full scale the rest of the night. So did Todd. Buddly continued to have a good signal and KF8XO check in from Detriolet. The static seemed to drop off some too.

Later I worked some Euros in the window on slop bucket. Got reports like 20 over 9 from them, so the longer skip was rocking too.

I love it !!!  8)

I've had some really spectacular crapouts over the years; fires (yes, real fires in the transmitter), explosions, deafening arcs and discharges and release of dangerous substances.  

Once, I actually had a transmitter explode in my face, and I *didn't* have my glasses on.  Why I wasn't blinded, I'll never know.  My face and hair were covered with pieces of metal, along with the remains of the (fairly large) electrolytic capacitor that literally blew up no more than 5 inches from my eyes.  I think God must have been looking out for me.  A very humbling experience, for sure!!!!

And they ask if I go sky diving on my life insurance policy o

Regards,

Steve

That was a pretty dramatic departure, G. Was wondering if one of your neighbors was re-enacting the Hindenburg disaster.

"...so yeah, and I ......uh oh...UH OH........."   *hisssssssss*



I thought you pretty much removed yourself earlier on 3875? Or did you just step down from the position of Grand Wizard?   ;)

Hope it's nutten major..prolly a power resistor or sompin...

Wow! Glad you weren't hurt. When those electrolytic caps go, they can be spectacular. The guts get sprayed all over the place.

Here's one that went off inside a Super Pro 400 power supply.

gary let us know if you need parts. I hope Paul has the crap out on tape.
Sounded like the beast of slop bucket was backing you into a corner.

Smart move to not work on it.

Moses stick....that was priceless.

HEY! That's the one I gave you! HOW DARE any of my fine radio repair work explode in big chunks!!?!?!!??? ??? :P

Did I screw something up or was it just it's time to die?  :'(

hmmm.......I need radio tech viagra now...... :'(

                                           This destruction from the Almighty or Wrath of God is what is necessary to finally defeat Satan on this Earth.  By casting out Satan from heavy Metal and his angels won the first battle.  The next battle in this war against Satan and his demons is to restrict the negative influence that they have on Earth.  This begins first by taking out from the Earth what is good, and second by wiping out the garbage that remains.               

Link?? ;) ;D

Seriously, Gary...hope it's a relatively minor repair.  Do be careful.

One can't resign from the MSDS group.  Once your SDS, you're in for life  ;D

Gary fixed his rig.
3727Kc right now 8:10PM EST

Someone is blowing into an empty beer bottle.
Group includes:
WB3HUZ
W3GL
KB3AHE
W2INR
KA1KAQ
WD8BIL

Crap-Out Police Investigation Report (COPIR) # 3875

Cause:  Driving While Intoxicated.

Then they're ripping me off, 'cuz I ain't on.

Nobody, line 'em up, nobody can blow beer bottle CW like I can.

Maybe I'll fire up later and show y'all how it's done.

--Thom
Killer Agony One Zipper Got Caught

That would be OWI. Operating while intoxicated Tom

Or is that OWB?? (operating with buzz) ;D ;D

OIC - Operator-Induced Crapout. (pronounced, 'oh, I see!')

Of course, once G reappeared on the air, the fun of teasing was gone - almost. There was still some entertainment value to be had in the multiple queries as to what happened, why, what caused it, why, what'd ya do about it, why, and so on.

After we flogged that for all it was worth, we got after Brent for a while with rapid fire questions about his antenna system, Class E rig, and so on.

Keeping with the AMfone format, last night was QSO night. Tech night date TBA.  ;)

Tech night...I need to get the V2 driver rebuilt quickly

or you can just explain your progress.  After all it will be tech night.
As to Gary's crapout I thought it was pretty much burned through the night before on 3725, 30 or so. I got sleepy very early around quarter till 11.
Wa1gfz, w3gl, ka1kaq, wb3huz, w2inr, mois, k9act, w1ia, kb2h, ab3al and others ve3pja? couldn't copy the calls fast enough.  Gary, as most any gentleman, took all with a grain of humor...  a very small grain.  And we did ask, 'where was vjb?" -answer from Williamsburg was 'he doesn't work 'cept on weekends.'  I'm trying to parse the sense of that.  Perhaps there is none. Many auxiliary, labial, and other semi-fruity sounds were heard in addition to normal speech. Yes, we really need a tech night.

Paul was on assignment - his wife had him assigned to the house, perhaps in the kitchen dealing with dirty dishes. That was the consensus, at least.

And I was actually being facetious about Tech night. Every night is Tech night, just ask a question. Of course, some nights the answers could be more questionable than the questions themselves....   ::)

It's all about us AMers making use of the airwaves on a regular basis, and having fun doing it.

BTW Frank, when I say you sound good up here, keep in mind that I'm listening through a pooty 6 kcs filter.  But hey - it's a Viking II. Git that big thang with the steering wheel on front back on the air, we'll hear ya fine.

 

Todd are you PIS^*  ?


^*Posting In the Sauce

I soon shall be OOBA*

*Operating On Bass Ale

5:56PM
Todd, after attempting many times to join Tim VE6PG and VA3BHD, Bob, realizes he had not thrown the PLATE SWITCH in order to make power.

OWI  !

Operating While Inattentive

Heh, yes indeed....OWA, more like it. Operating Whilst Absent(minded). We have another party here today! :D

In honor of the now-infamous INR crapout, Gary's new phonetics are:

W2  I Nuke Rectifiers

Or W2 I Need Rectumfinders

either one ....... works ;D

Won't someone PLEASE post the audio clip in the AM Audio Vault?

We just gotta hear that...

Six-pack = $8.00

New rectifiers = $50.00

Hearing Gary's "...uh-oh....UH-OH...hisssssss" = PRICELESS

"Leave me alone. I have a headache for some reason!"

Was  it as good as the "Baltimore Classic" hangovers of a few years ago?.

Send priceless checks to Eric WB2CAU to whom we are grateful for the recording below.

Jeez, what's next...  Perhaps video from G's last colonoscopy???  Give the man a break!   ::)

Katie Couric did that already sorry.

Katie did a lot of people!

Thanks for posting it, Paul.

Glad to see you are back on the air, Gary.  I'm sorry to keep throwing the salt on the wound, but I just had to hear it.

That was classic, indeed...

Gary,

I wish I had heard this crapout and had been in the QSO.

You see, I am the present holder of the WA0ZOZ (now W0FD) award.

In order for me to get this "award"  the last holder had to personally hear me crap out while in QSO with him. (the screen supply transformer in my GK500 made a huge mushroom cloud when it shorted). Then he could sent the "award" to me, Now I've had it for many years but have NEVER as yet had another AMer go bust in a QSO. So, I have to keep this award.

The award is a nice trophy, well worked wood with a pair of 2000 ohm headphones resting on top. Why? Well, one day on the Colorado Morning AM group WA0ZOZ was transmitting and looking down into the final of his GK400, you know those tubes look kool, well his headphones fell off into the pi-network, and he left the air. And now we have the WA0ZOZ award.

I have held this award for many years because I haven't been in a QSO where the other fellows transmitter crapped out. Then I could send it to him, and he couldn't pass it on until he was in a QSO where the other guys transmitter crapped out.

Keep this in mind if if you are in a QSO with me. You could be "awarded".

73, Marty WB2RJR

Eric that is priceless and I heard it live.

Katie is doing the boss at CBS isn't she?

She didn't get there based on her brains. Then again, neither did Dan or Walter.

Walter was one of the best. How could any reporter match the emotion he had during the space program.
He would have tears in his eyes reporting Gary's melt down..

One of the best at hyping it up. Thus, the crocodile tears. What a phony!

Yea but he earned it, he stepped up to the plate on quite a few occasions...what a career...he was no slouch.

Steve,
I'm a bit older than you and remember all the failures of rockets blowing up 2 or 3 seconds off the pad so I had tears in my eyes many times when it went right.
I think he was real. How about when he announced Kennedy was dead.

If a reporter (so called) is emotional, they've lost objectivity, and thus, have lost the ability to do their job. Cronkite was a sham.

Sham, don't agree but I think I can direct to a real one to observe.
How can you avoid emotion seeing the first man walk on the moon?

Well, we disagree then. I think he was a fraud and started the "I am the star of TV news" syndrome. Rather than report the news, he became part of it. Journalism at its lowest.

I agree but I prefer that over a robot or a bubble head. Dan was more the robot type. 
my news heros are Ben Stein and Andy Rooney

Indeed!

I wonder if Walter cried when he heard of the INR crapout ?

 Moon Landing with Walter  (http://www.youtube.com/?v=HwaA-hbvYF8)

With the life of this thread it is the crap out heard around the world by now.

I had tears coming out of my eyes, but it was from laughing.

Steve ,
anyone we know?


Dave

Jesse Colon Young.

(huh-HA !)

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