The INR Crapout------Inquiring minds want to know!!

[WA1GFZ]

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

[W3RSW]

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.

[Todd, KA1KAQ]

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.

 

[WA3VJB]

Todd are you PIS^*  ?

keep in mind that I'm listening through a pooty 6 kcs filter.  But hey - it's a Viking II

^*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

[Todd, KA1KAQ]

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

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

W2  I Nuke Rectifiers

[WD8BIL]

Or W2 I Need Rectumfinders

either one ....... works

[K4QE]

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

[Joe-N2YR]

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

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

[WA3VJB]

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

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

[KD3CN]

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

[WA3VJB]

Katie Couric did that already sorry.

[Steve - WB3HUZ]

Katie did a lot of people!

[K4QE]

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...

[WB2RJR]

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

[WA1GFZ]

Eric that is priceless and I heard it live.

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

[Steve - WB3HUZ]

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

[WA1GFZ]

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..

[Steve - WB3HUZ]

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

[ka3zlr]

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

[WA1GFZ]

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.

[Steve - WB3HUZ]

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.

[WA1GFZ]

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?

[Steve - WB3HUZ]

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.

[WA1GFZ]

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

[Steve - WB3HUZ]

my news heros are Ben Stein and Andy Rooney

Indeed!