Posts Tagged ‘humor’
The Sun and its effects
April 5th, 2012 | 
Author: according to today’s “Red & Rover” comic strip – the Sun affects more than just Hams!
72 de Larry W2LJ
QRP – When you care to send the very least!
Nuts!
No e-mail from Elecraft today. My brain knows that it will be a week or two before kits start rolling out the door. My heart , however, tells me, “Go home NOW! Check your e-mail NOW! Now, now , now, NOW!”
This is going to be a long couple of weeks. Honestly, I can’t remember being this anxious about a package since being a kid around Christmas time. And the closer it gets, the harder it gets. I didn’t even really think much about this a couple of weeks ago – now my brain in zoning in on it way more often.
It’s a good thing I have distractions, like reading more of Jim W1PID’s reports of portable QRP operations from up in New Hampshire. Here’s another goody:
http://www.w1pid.com/jackson/jackson.html
72 de Larry W2LJ
QRP – When you care to send the very least!
PS: To all my Christian friends out there, wishes for a blessed Holy Week!
Too bad they consider this an April Fool’s joke!
But even in a joke there’s truth to be found.
“It’s a dot and a dash. To have a conversation with the entire world. It’s great.”
Yes, yes it is.
72 de Larry W2LJ
QRP – When you care to send the very least!
One of those things
that doesn’t make sense to me.
I am about ready to sit down and fill out the log sheet for the certificate for working K6JSS Golden Jubilee Stations. As I mentioned before, I’ve worked 47 of the 50.
Anyway, I am looking at the WAS map that the QRP-ARCI so graciously provided along with the log sheet. And I’m noticing something I don’t think I’ve ever really payed attention to before in all my 30+ years in the hobby. I’d bet good money that someone else noticed this before and that I’m just really slow on the uptake.
We start in the North East – Call section 1. Next we come down to New York and New Jersey – Call section 2. Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland – the Middle Atlantic states – Call section 3. The great South East – Call section 4. Now on to the Central Southern states – Call section 5. Out West to California – Call section 6. Up to the great North West and other Western states – Call section 7.
Sense the pattern? We started in the North East and we’re working around the perimeter of the country (more or less) in a clockwise pattern (more or less) – in numerical order.
So now, after the great North West, we move over to the Central Northern and Central states – Call section 0 ????? What happened? Why do sections 0, 9 and 8 seem to be backwards? We were working our way, nicely around the country in a nice numerical order and all of a sudden – chaos!
I’m sure there’s an excellent explanation. Any Amateur Radio history buffs out there that can enlighten me?
72 de Larry W2LJ
QRP – When you care to send the very least!
