Talk to you in the morning, John, on our "Hillbilly Hamsets."
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "John/K4WJ" <k4wj@att.net>
To: "Michael O. Hyder" <N4NT@charter.net>; "Fred Meier"
<fmeier@uniserve.com>; "Ten-Tec Reflector" <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2000 10:04 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Pan Display
| At 12:14 PM 3/4/00 -0500, Michael O. Hyder wrote:
|
| >Japanese radios have been called "Rice Boxes" for a long time. Get over
it.
| >
| >73 de Mike
|
| Mike,
|
| That sure doesn't make it right. Should I refer to American rigs as "Fried
| Chicken" boxes? Or maybe Burger King Boxes or some other truly American
food.
|
| I think referring to rigs made in Japan as "Rice Boxes" is in very poor
| taste. I have never done it.
|
|
|
| 73..de John/K4WJ
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