simpsons cartoon anti ham

[ab3al]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fo-W1wDXHA&feature=related

[flintstone mop]

Sounds like the loser 20M freq that is always plagued with on-air fights and 14.312??? One of Glen' old stomping grounds

fred

[WA1HZK]

Hey, if your 45 and live with your mother.....

[WB2YGF]

When I was a young JN I was living with my grandmother.  I would be in the middle of a QSO at 7 WPM and she would call me down for dinner.  Man it pissed her off when I didn't come down right away and she would come into my room ranting.  I could never get her to understand that you can't finish a CW QSO in 30 seconds, especially when the other guy is doing an ol' buzzard transmission at 7 WPM)

[Opcom]

huh. My dad used to just come and beat on the door and yell about the lines on the TV set. I followed the plans for the "RF oscillator" exactly from the book, except I had only a 400V power supply instead of a 90V battery, and a 6L6 instead of a 3A5.

[W3RSW]

-so you melted down your coils and blew your rocks.
That's quite an 'upgrade.'

[N0WEK]

-so you melted down your coils and blew your rocks.
That's quite an 'upgrade.'

Sounds kinky!

[c. mac neill w8znx]

Hey, if your 45 and live with your mother.....

heck Seymor Skinner is a Nam Vet
so he has to be older than 45

Patty or Selma Bouvier is also a ham

[Opcom]

-so you melted down your coils and blew your rocks.
That's quite an 'upgrade.'

naw.. it was a free running hartley nd I used some speaker wire for the coil, since I worked at a car staereo shop, I got all my wire there from what we threw away.

[W1AEX]

Nice find.

I looked up WA3QIZ at qrz.com ('cuz I'm a loser) and it belongs to the Savant DX Group in Ruckersville, VA. I'll bet one of their members is part of the production crew for the Simpsons and managed to work their call into the episode as a joke. Good thing us losers can laugh at ourselves!

By the way, if you look closely at Seymour's sweatshirt, it looks like it says something like "CLASS E RULES". Makes sense, QIZ is pretty close to QIX.

Rob W1AEX

[Edit: It turns out that the callsign WA3QIZ actually belonged to David Mirkin until it expired in 1998. Mirkin is one of the producers of The Simpsons series. The call was later picked up by the Savant DX Group in 2006. I must have way too much time on my hands for even bothering to look this crap up, but it is interesting...]