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« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2011, 01:46:37 PM » |
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Go easy on him. I hear tell Junior Samples got started the same way!
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« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2011, 02:04:50 PM » |
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I think the guy is great! He has a video on there about caning meat. How can anyone hate him?
Thanks for sharing Don.
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« Reply #3 on: March 09, 2011, 02:58:29 PM » |
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How can you anyone hate him? I don't know, Terry. By the looks of his forearm his wife ain't been happy lately! |
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« Reply #4 on: March 09, 2011, 03:10:44 PM » |
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How can you anyone hate him? I don't know, Terry. By the looks of his forearm his wife ain't been happy lately! Well if you look at some of his other videos where his shooting buddies come over, it would look like girlfriends or wives may be way down on the list of priorities. I think I would get the best meal over at his house but how healthy it may be, is another question  |
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« Reply #5 on: March 09, 2011, 03:31:46 PM » |
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I think I would get the best meal over at his house but how healthy it may be, is another question Now you're talkin'! Sounds like a great guy.... shootin', grillin', eatin'.....!!! |
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« Reply #6 on: March 09, 2011, 03:42:19 PM » |
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Now be nice - it takes a BIG man to tackle the Extrie...  T |
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« Reply #7 on: March 09, 2011, 07:08:20 PM » |
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THE EXTRA {THE HOLY GRAIL}OF HAM RADIO |
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« Reply #8 on: March 09, 2011, 07:35:19 PM » |
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Or could this be 3892?
If you consider the fact that they're actually studying the Technician manual in the video ... it probably is them. |
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« Reply #9 on: March 09, 2011, 11:11:15 PM » |
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Well, he's doing it in an encouraging and friendly manner. Can't ask for more than that.
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« Reply #10 on: March 09, 2011, 11:33:23 PM » |
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Reminds me of these guys. |
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« Reply #11 on: March 10, 2011, 04:39:34 PM » |
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SHEEEEEAT that don't beat nuthin' |
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« Reply #12 on: March 11, 2011, 03:32:18 PM » |
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Giving the devil his due, the guy does restate some of the technical topics he reads from the ARRL book, in a down-to-earth manner that is probably easier to understand than by just reading the text. I'm not sure if the hillbilly image is a put-on or if he is revealing himself in his native state (no pun intended). Remember, many viewers identified with Archie Bunker and failed to see the satire involved.
And yes, he is attempting to "teach" out of the Technician question pool, but I'd bet some of those questions and answers he presents in his lecture would baffle more than a few of to-day's Extras. I just hope that when I used to teach school, my presentation wasn't quite as dull and boring as this guy's. I doubt he could hold the attention of a classroom full of high-schoolers for even five minutes.
But he also perpetuates a few of the common hammy hambone misconceptions about radio, for example, the bit about working the transmitter into an unmatched coat-hanger for an antenna resulting in "feedback" that will send the RF back into the transmitter and burn it up. I remember hearing that same old story all the way back to my novice days, about the reflected power from a high SWR coming back into the transmitter and causing the plates of the tubes to glow red.
I think he is hilarious, but I question whether it is really in our best interests to see the good-ole-boy/Hammy Hambone/11m image of amateur radio promoted to the general public. Just one more thing to make our hobby seem "faintly embarrassing".
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« Reply #13 on: March 11, 2011, 03:43:20 PM » |
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about the reflected power from a high SWR coming back into the transmitter and causing the plates of the tubes to glow red. You mean..... it really don't work like that? Shazam! |
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« Reply #14 on: March 11, 2011, 03:47:48 PM » |
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Nope... but I'm sure Walt could explain that better than I could.
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« Reply #15 on: March 11, 2011, 05:24:55 PM » |
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I just hope that when I used to teach school, my presentation wasn't quite as dull and boring as this guy's. I doubt he could hold the attention of a classroom full of high-schoolers for even five minutes. Well Don, you need to view his lectures from a Northerner point of view. We think all people in the south are stoned out on moon shine and that is the audience he is addressing. You know that lazy good for nothing sitting on the rocking chair on the front porch sipping moon shine, petting the dog with a shotgun across the lap type  |
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« Reply #16 on: March 11, 2011, 06:08:48 PM » |
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I'm reminded about the recent post of hams having a hard time getting a date. If women see this it could set us back fifty years  Mike |
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« Reply #17 on: March 11, 2011, 08:31:17 PM » |
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He's got two milking goats and a flock of chickens. A woman could do worse!
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« Reply #18 on: March 11, 2011, 09:21:49 PM » |
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I just hope that when I used to teach school, my presentation wasn't quite as dull and boring as this guy's. I doubt he could hold the attention of a classroom full of high-schoolers for even five minutes. Well Don, you need to view his lectures from a Northerner point of view. We think all people in the south are stoned out on moon shine and that is the audience he is addressing. You know that lazy good for nothing sitting on the rocking chair on the front porch sipping moon shine, petting the dog with a shotgun across the lap type yall dont do that up there?? guess its to cold to sit on the porch. |
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« Reply #19 on: March 11, 2011, 09:33:42 PM » |
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Haven't you heard? We have just begun to enter into the second half of the twentieth century. Now the people are stoned out on "Mary Jane", while commercially produced moon shine is sold legally in liquor stores. Instead of sitting on the porch with the shotgun across our laps, we are now allowed to bring it with us into taverns and bars, unless the owner of the establishment has a "no guns allowed" sign posted at the entrance. |
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« Reply #20 on: March 12, 2011, 06:35:17 AM » |
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Watching this fellow in the video I wonder why his left arm is all the way in to the bib overalls....maybe he's counting his change?  |
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« Reply #21 on: March 12, 2011, 11:59:08 PM » |
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« Reply #22 on: March 13, 2011, 12:07:14 AM » |
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A waste is a terrible thing to mind.
Get a life.
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« Reply #23 on: March 13, 2011, 10:01:46 AM » |
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You know that lazy good for nothing sitting on the rocking chair on the front porch sipping moon shine, petting the dog with a shotgun across the lap type Hey watch it! Yur hittin' close to home wid that one! Yes Brandon, we do some porch sittin' visitin' pickin' sippin' here in the North too! |
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« Reply #24 on: March 13, 2011, 11:18:45 AM » |
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I just hope that when I used to teach school, my presentation wasn't quite as dull and boring as this guy's. I doubt he could hold the attention of a classroom full of high-schoolers for even five minutes. Well Don, you need to view his lectures from a Northerner point of view. We think all people in the south are stoned out on moon shine and that is the audience he is addressing. You know that lazy good for nothing sitting on the rocking chair on the front porch sipping moon shine, petting the dog with a shotgun across the lap type I resent that! I do not have a dog! And you forgot the corn cob pipe! |
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