7/3
Unhitch yourself from those big ol' tenterhooks and take a gander at our 2008 K1NSS Field Day score. Some smart-remarkin' wag might call it Avogadro's Other Number but we'll just out and out admit it's 0.00 x 10 to the 23rd and call it a crying shame. Be the first in your neighborhood to concede that you and your neighbors collectively share substainal culpability, even as this 'umble cartoonist generously takes full responsibity, poor thing. Who among you is so cold you won't click Our Sad Story?
6/22
Lazy, hazy, crazy shoutouts to all you Hams of Summer. Seems like only yesterday we were spending day after gorgeous morning noon and night in our dank cellar hamshack while our peers ran wild in the streets soaking up fresh air and ultraviolet radiation. Of course we hams of early 60s summers had good reason to hang with our radios, aside from social ostracism and the very real possibililty that great clouds of thermonuclear warheads would rain down any second and our Heathkits would save the day. "Everybody vaporized here, how about your end, Old Man?" See kids, in those days we had sunspots -- a boon to those of us condemned to carrier-control, a variety of near-beer modulation that wasn't even close. Nobody could hear you unless the higher bands opened up thanks to heavy sunspot activity or maybe the odd lucky weather front presaged by Florida TV stations waxing and waning on Channel Three.
From our central New York QTH, we fondly remember Midwesterners bombing in as if they were only two or three states to the left. Amazing. A couple of pasty-faced adolescents could kick back with schooners of RC Cola and stacks of Oreos and savor a real four-minute armchair ragchew of exaggerated S-meter readings, garbled handles, and insights not typically afforded by public school social studies classes. For example, one learned that Rat Patrol was telecast at the same time in Utica as in Sandusky. And that Illinois kids ate Tuna Wiggle too, but called soda pop. In a twinkling, the world became a much smaller and less-magical place.
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