That takes me back too my misspent youth. When I was in High School in
the late 60's I listened to Jean Shepherd's (K2ORS, SK) radio show on
WOR (NYC) every night. He occasionally told funny ham radio stories and
he read a lot of Robert Service poetry. Later, when I was in college, I
found The Best of Robert Service in the college bookstore. Needless to
say, I bought it at once.
73,
Bob
Art Trampler wrote:
> Yes...apologies are due him.
>
> The Cremation of Sam McGee is one of my favorites.
>
> But..too much of his work? That's like too much tapioca pudding.
>
> --- On Thu, 10/8/09, Frank Holladay <holladayfd@multipro.com> wrote:
>
>
> From: Frank Holladay <holladayfd@multipro.com>
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] My Omni 6 appears to be fixed
> To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
> Date: Thursday, October 8, 2009, 9:09 AM
>
>
> Sounds like someone has read too much of Robert Service's poetry!!
> 73,
> Frank, K4VMO
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Graves" <jh.graves@verizon.net>
> To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 7:28 AM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] My Omni 6 appears to be fixed
>
>
> Art,
>
> Very nice....So we again explore the depths of our skill in praise of
> TenTec. Must be listening to all that CW!
>
> John Graves
> WA1JG
> jh.graves@verizon.net
>
> Art Trampler wrote:
>>
>> The Fixation of Five Sixty-Three
>>
>>
>>
>> There be strange smoking toil, by the night’s waning oil,
>>
>> When men quell their chirps and their clicks,
>>
>> But the strangest it seems, so near to our dreams
>>
>> Was the night near the snake of the Williams Lake
>>
>> When Joe repaired his old Omni Six.
>>
>>
>>
>> Now Joe was a man who was known as a ham,
>>
>> Who would dit and dah with the best
>>
>> But his dear Omni Six, in need of a fix
>>
>> Had a stuck PLL borne on vapors of hell
>>
>> That gave our dear OM no rest.
>>
>>
>>
>> So Joe turned to the reflector, a knowledge collector
>>
>> Where the oracle was known to lurk
>>
>> And was given good fodder to search for some solder
>>
>> That was cold in the joint-now you see my point
>>
>> That had caused this unsettling quirk.
>>
>>
>>
>> With iron in hand, smoke rings rose in a band
>>
>> Round his head like ethereal wraith
>>
>> And o’er the circuits he went with a hard-focused bent
>>
>> To make tin and lead flow like spilt blood in the snow
>>
>> Yet still t’was an act of his faith.
>>
>>
>>
>> For circuits that die are ne’er hard to come by
>>
>> Yet to resurrect them requires the knack,
>>
>> That is found less these days, lost in mists and in haze
>>
>> To fix what is broken, a repair more than token
>>
>> In the quiet of Joe’s radio shack.
>>
>>
>>
>> Yet when he was done was he sure he had won,
>>
>> This battle with solder joints cold?
>>
>> It would seem that he was, or that was the buzz
>>
>> Which passed round the net (did you place a bet?)
>>
>> At least that’s how this tale has been told.
>>
>>
>>
>> When at last came the hour when he restored power
>>
>> Cold display pierced the shack’s whelming night
>>
>> He placed his hand to the dial, then turning it while
>>
>> The numbers did change—said I before it was strange
>>
>> QRG dancing now in his sight.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thus a fine fix did Joe bring to his Six,
>>
>> And it plays now as in its youth
>>
>> Each circuit now works, no duty it shirks
>>
>> All joints are now well, yet still cold as hell
>>
>> Hear all you men, ‘tis the truth.
>>
>>
>>
>> So when next you hear Joe’s signal come near
>>
>> I ask you friend, bear this yarn in mind
>>
>> That our Joe was not slow
>>
>> To repair with all care
>>
>> A Six needing a Fix from its bind.
>>
>>
>>
>> There be strange smoking toil, by the night’s waning oil
>>
>> And the strangest by far to these ears
>>
>> Was the night that Joe fought with what Ten-Tec had wrought
>>
>> Coiled near to the snake of that old Williams Lake
>>
>> And it may be the strangest for years.
>>
>>
>>
>> Art
>>
>> KØRO
>>
>>
>>
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