Those Darn Ham Radio Operators!

[W1AEX]

This is exactly what happens when K1JJ swings his 6 meter beam toward my town...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKd5hupXJVo

de Rob W1AEX

[flintstone mop]

YUP the antenna on the Ham's house looked like something Mr VU would use at his station.
We're a strange bunch of folks. The RF does that, I think
Fred

[k4kyv]

But you have to admit the daughter is a hottie!

[W3RSW]

What's the rest of the story?
Jeeze.. .just got interesting.  Kinda like to see the rest of that Twilight Zone serial. 

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So our hero walks out the door on his mission to really burn the new bad ham neighbor..
And walks right into Frank's back yard, sees 57 partying hams, prof. video recording, blatant frustrated strippers and more food and beer that he ever imagined in one place.

And weakly says......,

"Uh, hi guys... you don't suppose I could borrow a chocolate chip cookie?"

Yeah, daughter's "radio" was interfered with all right...  Easy to see where she'd been.

[k4kyv]

I've seen the rest of the episode.  The "ham" is really at ET, and that antenna is for a communications system he uses to "phone home".   

[WB2CAU]

Gawd dayum, Rob, where you been hiding?  I see you modified your call sign.  Haven't heard you on 75m AM in decades.  You used to be a daily/nightly fixture on 75m AM. You got any ants up for HF?

Eric - WB2CAU

[W1AEX]

Hi Eric, good to see you are still lurking in the hallways here. Yes, I did modify my call for no good reason at all other than it was there, so I figured Uncle Sam should give it to me. And yes, I have the wires up higher than ever (256 foot center fed with ladder line) and have been working on Studio A to get it restored and operating again. Mostly it's a matter of hauling completely useless junk to the dump (or flea markets) that has clogged up the basement and the downstairs station. I'm making progress each day and will start working on the big rig control circuitry when everything is cleaned out. Should be fun to get stuff working again down there.

And Don, that hottie of a daughter in the "Black Leather Jackets" TZ episode is a very young Shelly Fabares in all her glory as she was in 1964. Personally, I don't think she was up in her room "just studying and listening to the radio". I'm pretty sure she was dreaming about those big strapping hams next door...

73,

Rob

[W1AEX]

You can actually watch the entire episode at youtube. It's cut into three 8 minute segments.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5Q5DkOgvuM          (part one)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMoKe262Tx4           (part two)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYASt0m_-ds           (part three)

It's a pretty lame episode, but Rod Serling seemed to like it...

Rob W1AEX

What's the rest of the story?
Jeeze.. .just got interesting.  Kinda like to see the rest of that Twilight Zone serial.

[W3RSW]

Thanks for the rest of the story.   

Quite "retro-timely" considering all the late hoopla about drugs in the water supply these days...   & post 9-11, etc.


Saw a cartoon in the paper couple of days ago.
Two fish near the bottom of the sea littered with pill bottles and as yet undissolved capsules and pills....  one fish with a drunken look and a tablet half in his mouth and the other saying, "Shouldn't we ask the EPA if they're right for us?"

Back in the second segment, I Tried to ID the equipment in the racks; most seemed to be old lab equipment, couple of items almost looked like SP200's; guess we see what we want to see.

[Ed - N3LHB]

Another nice old buzzardly flick....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBGIdf0VjQ4&NR=1

and that's all folks!

[k4kyv]

This one is for real.  No sound, though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUE04hpwQ1Q&mode=related&search=

[W1AEX]

While browsing the YouTube links that Ed and Don posted, I spotted this video clip of a radio demonstration using an RME 6900 receiver by N1TI. After listening to various slop bucket contacts, one minute and 37 seconds into the video clip, he switches to AM and tunes it to 3885 and catches a semi-strapping CQ on the 75 metros band by Double-U-Yay-One-Haitch-Yell-Are. That's W-A-1-H as in Horrendous, L as in Luicious, and R for Rotundus. Haha, a classic CQ that would bring a smile to any AM operator. Timmy... unknowingly immortalized forever on YouTube...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I800aVWLb0w&feature=related

73,

Rob W1AEX

Be sure to read the viewer comments about the piss weak AM station on 3885 under the video clip... Haha. Curiously, check out N1TI's name on QRZ. Very interesting, only the middle initial is different...

[k4kyv]

Did you check out this link?

[Rob K2CU]

Always knew Uncle Jesse had a family someplace!