Subj : Re: Wannbe HAM
To : Daryl Stout
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Thu Sep 15 2016 08:44 pm
-=> Daryl Stout wrote to TONY LANGDON <=-
DS> Like Tim Duffy, K3LR, does. From what I've seen, that is the ULTIMATE
DS> contester's shack.
Most of mine for that price would be highly automated. I'm not a contester, I
like building infrastructure. :)
DS> more than have their money back, especially when they try to sell it.
DS> So much of "no pecuniary interest". :P
As long as they don't use the radio to sell it. ;)
DS> Several years ago, when I ran a local traders net, there was one ham
DS> who listed the same few items week after week. I never had a problem
DS> with that individual. Yet, there was another one who had several
DS> rotating sets of items, as it were. Rumor had it that he was doing it
DS> as a business, which is a violation of the rules. He confronted me
DS> once, and said "you're accusing me of running a business"...to which I
DS> said "I'm not accusing you of anything. But, if the shoe fits, wear
DS> it!!".
Hmm. Well, they made it easy here, trading on air is not allowed at all. In
fact, in the early days of IRLP and Echolink, I had to dump a net or two,
because they had a trading segment.
DS> A few nights later, I had a bizarre dream (I don't recall what I ate
DS> for dinner, and I doubt I was being cannibalistic in eating ham (hi
LOL, and an interesting dream BTW.
DS> This ham also sat at one end of the couch, and his son at the other,
DS> and they were talking to each other on the local wide aread coverage
DS> repeater, with HT's. I'm still trying to figure out what purpose that
DS> served. :P
Yeah, that does happen sometimes. ;)
TL> DS> � OLX 1.53 � E-mail returned to sender...insufficient voltage.
TL>Maybe that was your problem? ;)
DS> I guess I shouldn't have sent it barefoot, and cranked my email
DS> client up to 1.5 kw (hi hi). I went ahead and tried sending it from the
DS> BBS's email address...I hope that one works, or I'll have to try
DS> another one.
Guess propagation was down. :-)
DS> ---
DS> � OLX 1.53 � Condoms should be used on every conceivable occasion.
Only when you don't want to conceive. :D
... In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.
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