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

[John D'Ausilio]

I've always loved that doggerel ..

A bit of additional info someone passed along .. rather than space
cadets it was space K-dets, a reference to the new "K" prefix which
identified a (relatively) new op ..

de w1rt/john

On 9/27/07, Jim Tonne <tonne at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Gents:
>
> I asked a co-worker if he had "the rest of the mantra"
> and got the reply attached below.
>
> - Jim WB6BLD
>
> ===============================
>
>
> ----- 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
>
>
>
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