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Re: [TowerTalk] Famous/notorious?

To: <ersmar@comcast.net>, <towertalk@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Famous/notorious?
From: <paul@w8aef.com>
Reply-to: paul@w8aef.com
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 05:14:19 -0000
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Amateur radio is still fun.

de Paul, W8AEF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <ersmar@comcast.net>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Cc: <ersmar@comcast.net>
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 4:54 AM
Subject: [TowerTalk] Famous/notorious?


> TT:
>
>      This evening my front doorbell rang and a neighbor lad and his mom 
> asked to speak with me about the structure in my back yard.  My wife told 
> me a couple of days ago these folks had dropped by, asking for me, but I 
> was not at home.  The boy explained that he had an assignment for his 
> middle school class to study a structure and write a report about it.
>
>     Needless to say I was tickled to have, at last, an audience to regale 
> with stories of my Trylon tower and its antennas.  (None of my three 
> daughters is the least bit interested in the tower, and my wife...... the 
> word eyesore comes to her mind quite often.)
>
>     Long story short (sort of) - I gave him a quick background of the 
> tower and its construction, including copies of Trylon's drawings from 
> their web pages, plus answered some non-structure-related questions about 
> the farthest I'd ever talked on the radio (wish I'd been into 
> moonbounce!).   His mom asked me for the most interesting contact I'd 
> had - it would have to be the MIR spacestation.  Showed them QSL cards, 
> the station and some military radios I'm restoring.  (Of course, he had to 
> ask about the radio-controlled cars I had on display on the bookcase.)
>
>     He promised to give me a copy of his final report.  Whether he asks me 
> more questions at that time will tell me whether he was impressed.
>
>
> 73 de
> Gene Smar  AD3F
> P.S.  His first question:  How do you keep your structure from attracting 
> lightning?  Smart boy!

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