[Amps] No lids, no kids, no . . .

[Jim Tonne]

Gents:

I asked a co-worker if he had "the rest of the mantra"
and got the reply attached below.

- Jim WB6BLD

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Riley"
To: "Jim Tonne"
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 9:35 AM
Subject: RE: No lids, no kids, no . . .


W2OY is calling CQ
No lids, no kids, no space cadets, no phonetic fanatics
Class A Operators, S9 signals only need apply
To W2OY

Another version was:
W2OY is calling CQ
No lids, no kids, no space cadets, no phonetic fanatics
No school bus riders please
Class A Operators, S9 signals only need apply
To W2OY
Make no mistake about it, W2OY is calling

And then variations on that theme.  Mike loved kids but he couldn't let
that be known and keep up his reputation as a curmudgeon.  So he would
listen in and then every now and then dump in a comment--an unmistakable
comment.  But he wouldn't join the conversation unless you replied to
one of his CQ's.  And then he would usually answer and proceed to jerk
any chain you left hanging out.  Ho Ho--as Big Al would say.

Mike got in a fight with a group of AM ops on 3830 called the pig
farmers.  They were certified nuts.  That used to drive him nuts.  One
of the pig farmers had a second microphone attached to his clock so that
you could hear the clock mechanism ticking.  That drove Mike (and me)
nuts.  One night the propagation was wrong.  And Mike got run off the
air.

The next day he got Dick, WA2BQL, to come over and help him with the
antenna work he wanted to try to get that extra dB or two.  Mike had a
heart attach and died on the tower strapped to the tower with his
climbing belt.  They finally had to get the fire department to bring a
ladder truck to recover his body.

Now that's my kind of ham, died on the tower in search of the last dB.

JFR