[Amps] OT: TVI

[Paul E. Cater]

Sounds like the beginnings of a trip to Las Vegas to me!





Barrie Smith wrote:
> Several years ago, when I was running 375 watts on 6M mobile, my wife and I 
> drove to a rare grid-square here in Montana to pass the grid out during a 
> contest.
>
> We came upon a bar out in the middle of nowhere and we stopped to get a 
> coke.  While my wife was in the bar I called CQ.  Very soon she came 
> bursting out and yelled:  "Get out of here, Quick!".
>
> Well, while she was in the bar, she heard me calling CQ on the speakers in 
> the gambling machines.  She couldn't hear the exact words, but she 
> understood the cadence.
>
> The reason she ran out so quickly was not so much hearing me, but that 
> several of the gambling machines started playing music and sirens and giving 
> out big jackpots.
>
> She said that the bartender was just standing behind the bar with his mouth 
> hanging open.
>
> That was, for him, an expensive CQ.
>
> I've often wondered if I couldn't pull that trick with the help of someone 
> inside playing the machines.
>
> 73, Barrie, W7ALW 
>
>
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