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N8YX
03-11-2015, 09:42 AM
Most creative excuse wins.

I'll start. As mentioned elsewhere:

Contesters were clogging up my favorite frequency, and since the rig's mode switch and VFO were rusted into place I couldn't move. None of them would respond to my calls of "Up LID! Up LID!", either.

wa6mhz
03-11-2015, 11:38 AM
I couldn't operate the contest as PHOEBE was sitting on the logbook and bit my hand everytime I tried to reach for the VFO dial or the laptop keyboard

WØTKX
03-11-2015, 12:17 PM
I was on 10 meter AM and 12 meter SSB DX.

10 meter AM on Sunday was hoot!

Then, I went skiing. :wiggle:

N8GAV
03-11-2015, 01:31 PM
Most creative excuse wins.

I'll start. As mentioned elsewhere:

Contesters were clogging up my favorite frequency, and since the rig's mode switch and VFO were rusted into place I couldn't move. None of them would respond to my calls of "Up LID! Up LID!", either.

My wife is always telling to lift up the lid...................... Then put it down, wish she would make up her mind :lol:

WX7P
03-11-2015, 01:52 PM
Where is the 10 meter AM freq range?

PA5COR
03-11-2015, 02:02 PM
I was stuck on 160 and doing the calculations and making the balun for the newfangled 29.5 foot vertical I now today finished.

W2NAP
03-11-2015, 02:06 PM
Where is the 10 meter AM freq range?

29.000-29.2 mainly low end of 29.0

w0aew
03-11-2015, 05:42 PM
There was a contest?

K4PIH
03-11-2015, 05:43 PM
The mother ship from my home planet Melmack dropped a load of supplies off and I was too busy sorting the quadloos to get involved in one of the indigenous earth puss bag contests.

Evil Krang

NQ6U
03-11-2015, 05:51 PM
Contests are da ebil. Every time you call “CQ contest,” God kills a kitten.

NA4BH
03-11-2015, 06:04 PM
I had my iPhone6 hollering CQ and nobody would come back to me. This is why I hate contests. The latest technology and still no contacts.

K7SGJ
03-11-2015, 06:21 PM
My knob slipped. I kept changing bands, but the bandswitch stayed in the AUX position. That said, I still made 6,738 contacts on da bowl. AUX=11M? Who Gnu?

W2NAP
03-11-2015, 06:23 PM
My knob slipped. I kept changing bands, but the bandswitch stayed in the AUX position. That said, I still made 6,738 contacts on da bowl. AUX=11M? Who Gnu?

no excuses on da bowl

K7SGJ
03-11-2015, 06:26 PM
no excuses on da bowl

Yes. I must be tidy

KG4CGC
03-11-2015, 07:05 PM
HR app wouldn't install on my phone.

KG4NEL
03-11-2015, 07:28 PM
No place for an antenna.

WX7P
03-11-2015, 07:40 PM
The cat ate my log program

K7SGJ
03-11-2015, 07:47 PM
The cat ate my log program

Bah, sorry, no good. You can log ON the cat. Should be able to post quite a few QSOs on each one.

WA7PBE
03-11-2015, 07:49 PM
lets see ummm how about no rig?

K7SGJ
03-11-2015, 07:51 PM
lets see ummm how about no rig?

And you call yourself a ham? HAH.......:stirpot:

WA7PBE
03-11-2015, 08:03 PM
And you call yourself a ham? HAH.......:stirpot:
well i have a rig....just not an hf rig

NA4BH
03-11-2015, 08:22 PM
HR app wouldn't install on my phone.

Human Resources APP?

K7SGJ
03-11-2015, 08:35 PM
Human Resources APP?

If he had one of those, he'd probably end up letting himself go.

NA4BH
03-11-2015, 08:49 PM
I'd kick his ass to the curb with or without it. Bushtit.

KG4NEL
03-12-2015, 06:18 PM
I'll be on for the CQ WPX, though, from a friend's multi-2.

NN3U - Naughty Nurses, Three Ukeleles

NA4BH
03-12-2015, 08:15 PM
I'll be on for the CQ WPX, though, from a friend's multi-2.

NN3U - Naughty Nurses, Three Ukeleles

That's the movie with Fay Wray, isn't it?

NQ6U
03-12-2015, 08:28 PM
That's the movie with Fay Wray, isn't it?

No, you're thinking of Queen Kong, where she kidnaps a tiny gorilla and climbs the Empire State Building with him.

NA4BH
03-12-2015, 08:43 PM
Agnes Moorehead?

K7SGJ
03-12-2015, 09:09 PM
I think Moorehead was an earned name. Kind of like Shoemaker or Bookbinder.

WX7P
03-12-2015, 09:11 PM
I think Moorehead was an earned name. Kind of like Shoemaker or Bookbinder.

YOU....ARE...BAD...

NQ6U
03-12-2015, 09:19 PM
Agnes Moorehead?

No, that's Steve Reeves:

http://cdn.screenrant.com/wp-content/uploads/Hercules-Actors-Steve-Reeves.jpg

Dude has muscles in his ears.

KG4NEL
03-12-2015, 09:30 PM
I think Moorehead was an earned name. Kind of like Shoemaker or Bookbinder.

It's the name (slightly different spelling) of a planetarium in downtown Chapel Hill, coincidentally across the street from a few sorority houses.

It does have a very large dome.

K7SGJ
03-12-2015, 09:38 PM
No, that's Steve Reeves:

http://cdn.screenrant.com/wp-content/uploads/Hercules-Actors-Steve-Reeves.jpg

Dude has muscles in his ears.

Loved him in the Superman series when I was a kid.

WX7P
03-12-2015, 09:43 PM
Loved him in the Superman series when I was a kid.

That was George Reeves.

Keep your beefcake straight or, uh, ....never mind

WX7P
03-12-2015, 09:44 PM
No, that's Steve Reeves:

http://cdn.screenrant.com/wp-content/uploads/Hercules-Actors-Steve-Reeves.jpg

Dude has muscles in his ears.

Or if you want something visual

That's not too abysmal.

We could take in an old Steve Reeves movie...

K7SGJ
03-12-2015, 09:50 PM
Or if you want something visual

That's not too abysmal.

We could take in an old Steve Reeves movie...

Love his Show Tunes Album. With George singing three part harmony

WX7P
03-12-2015, 09:54 PM
Love his Show Tunes Album. With George singing three part harmony

YOu like show tunes by German nobodies?

K7SGJ
03-12-2015, 09:58 PM
YOu like show tunes by German nobodies?

As long as they are from obscure German movies.

NA4BH
03-12-2015, 10:13 PM
Show tunes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3V76bXqWzs


Nothing more can be said

K7SGJ
03-12-2015, 10:15 PM
Bushtit

WØTKX
03-13-2015, 10:51 AM
Stupid pop tune by a German so and so...

https://youtu.be/PJQVlVHsFF8


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJQVlVHsFF8&feature=youtu.be

W3WN
03-18-2015, 07:15 AM
I was stuck on 160 and doing the calculations and making the balun for the newfangled 29.5 foot vertical I now today finished.If you have a few pictures and an article about how you designed and built it, my newsletter is always looking for canon fodder content.

W3WN
03-18-2015, 07:18 AM
No, that's Steve Reeves:

http://cdn.screenrant.com/wp-content/uploads/Hercules-Actors-Steve-Reeves.jpg

Dude has muscles in his ears.You planning on taking in an old Steve Reeves movie?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDKyj35ew0E

K7SGJ
03-18-2015, 07:20 AM
You must submit photos, drawings, a detailed description, and of course, a pair of wooden shoes.

W3WN
03-18-2015, 07:20 AM
lets see ummm how about no rig?Should have come to my shack. We had fun operating.

And we even had cookies.

Now, if you want to know why I ended up missing the CW weekend this year...

PA5COR
03-19-2015, 02:32 PM
See in our department of antenna's you will find my post and progress there.
Finishing touch will be the mounting of the stinger next to the main radial, then it's done.
40 - 6 meters wideband and working well with the length I now have chosen as practical, and still effective.


If you have a few pictures and an article about how you designed and built it, my newsletter is always looking for canon fodder content.

suddenseer
03-20-2015, 08:22 PM
Where is the 10 meter AM freq range?Most of the AMers I hear are around 28.800. I run FM up to 29.and up. I love hitting those 10M repeaters. My fav is 29.62. There is always a battle of hetrodyne between a New York machine, and the BIG signal in the Bahamas.

KG4NEL
03-30-2015, 09:32 AM
I was on the air this weekend, keeping up my tradition of never using my own call for 90% of the QSOs I've made. :mrgreen:

Didn't hear any Islanders.

K7SGJ
03-30-2015, 11:09 AM
I was on the air this weekend, keeping up my tradition of never using my own call for 90% of the QSOs I've made. :mrgreen:

Didn't hear any Islanders.

How would you know? None of us used our real call, either.

W3WN
03-31-2015, 07:01 AM
See in our department of antenna's you will find my post and progress there.
Finishing touch will be the mounting of the stinger next to the main radial, then it's done.
40 - 6 meters wideband and working well with the length I now have chosen as practical, and still effective.Yes, I've seen that... the trick will be trying to turn all of that into a "how I did it" article.

N7YA
04-01-2015, 07:55 PM
I couldnt make it because i had made some pineapple upside-down cake...but it came out upside-down. No matter how i tried, i couldnt get it to right itself, it was always wrong!

This went on from friday afternoon to sunday evening. When i finally figured it out, i went to turn on the radio and realized i missed the entire thing. I just sat there in the dark...quietly. The cake was stale by then so i never ended up eating any.

K7SGJ
04-01-2015, 11:11 PM
I couldnt make it because i had made some pineapple upside-down cake...but it came out upside-down. No matter how i tried, i couldnt get it to right itself, it was always wrong!

This went on from friday afternoon to sunday evening. When i finally figured it out, i went to turn on the radio and realized i missed the entire thing. I just sat there in the dark...quietly. The cake was stale by then so i never ended up eating any.

You seem to spend a lot of time in the dark.

N7YA
04-02-2015, 12:27 AM
You seem to spend a lot of time in the dark.

No lights...i spend all my money on cake mix.

WX7P
04-02-2015, 06:48 AM
No lights...i spend all my money on cake mix.

Dark, in Vegas?

Who gnu?

N7YA
04-02-2015, 02:16 PM
Vegas will probably lighten up a little once we leave. :lol:

K7SGJ
04-02-2015, 10:45 PM
No lights...i spend all my money on cake mix.

Cake mix? I have got to party with you.

N7YA
04-02-2015, 11:19 PM
I live 20 miles south of the test site, they have all sorts of this really great yellow cake all over the place! :)

NQ6U
04-02-2015, 11:36 PM
I live 20 miles south of the test site, they have all sorts of this really great yellow cake all over the place! :)

And it's easy to find it in the dark, too. Not surprisingly, either is Adam.

N7YA
04-03-2015, 03:36 PM
And it's easy to find it in the dark, too. Not surprisingly, either is Adam.

Just look for the yellow cake....ill have the green glow.