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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