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Bacon, BBQ, Beef, And More / Re: Spicy Tuna Sashimi Salad

« on: June 11, 2017, 0145 UTC »

Philistine.

What we have here is a case of a "Tuna Hog" named Al Fansome. I did a little searching online, there are several brands of canned sashimi grade tuna out there. He's been holding out on us.

Tuna hog!

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Equipment / Re: RETRO RECEIVER REVIEW #10 - The DRAKE SPR-4

« on: June 10, 2017, 0050 UTC »

I've got a Drake T/R 4 series combo. For pure dx'ing that receiver is the King of The Shack and that includes it's younger brother the R-8. It's overkill for hunting pirates.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: WPPB-FM 88.3 Southampton, NY lightning strike

« on: June 09, 2017, 2322 UTC »

It's constant and revolting here, Redhat. My wife is always giving them money, it just encourages them. Can't they do their panhandling by liquor stores like respectable derelicts?

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Bacon, BBQ, Beef, And More / Re: Spicy Tuna Sashimi Salad

« on: June 09, 2017, 2317 UTC »

What we have here is a case of a "Tuna Hog" named Al Fansome. I did a little searching online, there are several brands of canned sashimi grade tuna out there. He's been holding out on us.

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: Low Powered Canadian Making it to Australia!

« on: June 09, 2017, 0155 UTC »

I used to have a hard time hearing St. John's period, until about four years ago, when they became a regular in the mornings, evenings, and late night. I suspect it's mostly due to less clutter on that band, no more Radio Havana every 20 kHz., but I also wonder if they may have improved their antenna system? The Vancouver station on 6160 was easier for me to hear for years than St. Johns in the mornings.

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Huh? / Re: Unknown Name/Clever Name/Not a Clever Name Radio stations, WTF

« on: June 09, 2017, 0145 UTC »

Ah-ha! I thought you and the Bunny Boys were back at it?

I nearly pulled a large red oak down on myself setting up for a tx in a creek bottom about a week after the water receded from a big flood. I didn't think the ground would still be that saturated after a week of warm dry weather? Ha! That tree started to shift when I start to haul the antenna line back over the branch. It was over nine feet in circumference, five feet above the ground. I chose it because of all the tilted trees in that bottom it was the one still looking solid.

I cut the haul line and went up on the hillside. "Man pulls huge oak over on self." isn't how I want my death to be described on the news.

Get back to it. I've got to call Karma. 

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General Radio Discussion / Re: Some interesting propagation data for a pirate transmission

« on: June 09, 2017, 0109 UTC »

Nah, it just means all those "Grenades" are still working after 25 years.

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Huh? / Re: Unknown Name/Clever Name/Not a Clever Name Radio stations, WTF

« on: June 09, 2017, 0104 UTC »

Break it up! Do you really want me to line your yards with electric cattle fence? With the RF noise that stuff makes you won't be able to make out the loudest howls of Brother Stair, not even on Radio Free Weinerville or WRMI!

Think about it. Do you really want to miss out on "Cooking With Fansome" on WBCQ?

Karma? Do you mean that Rosenberg girl that makes dirty movies or what happened to that Murphy fella from Smith Mountain and his midget? I'll take Ms. Rosenberg, something about ol' Jerry Mike Pat Graves-Murphy smells, and it's not his feet. He needs to quit hanging out in that hutch with that drunken dwarf and come out to play with the other bunnies.

Where is that tight lipped tuna hoarder, Fansome? I've got tin to pick with him. Oh well, he's probably distracted by the First Lady's cans.

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Bacon, BBQ, Beef, And More / Re: Spicy Tuna Sashimi Salad

« on: June 09, 2017, 0024 UTC »

Just think how those hogs will enjoy meat on the hoof like Al, instead of a piece of rancid jerky like Keef.

Now where did I put that "Eau de Sow" and my Slim Whitman records? Nothing brings in the rampant boars in like Slim hitting those high notes.

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Bacon, BBQ, Beef, And More / Re: Spicy Tuna Sashimi Salad

« on: June 08, 2017, 0033 UTC »

I was in 4-H. Part of it was raising hogs and steers to enter the bacon and beef in contests. If can deal with eating a mammal I raised from birth, I've got no problem eating those sea hogs called dolphins no matter how you have to gig 'em.

A dolphin has nothing on a pig when it comes to brainpower. Plus, if you need to dispose of an annoying individual, you can knock 'em in the head and throw 'em into the hog pen. You can rake what's left of the bones into the dirt in the morning. As I was told when I was just toddler, "Never f**k with a man who raises hogs." A sound reason to raise the noble beasts.

Speaking of annoying individuals, a certain fellow who won't answer a simple question about brands of tuna is starting to tick me off. Seeing that he lives in region overrun by feral hogs, I'm getting tempted to stake him out on the ground with a nearby speaker blasting out the squeals of a sow in heat.

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Bacon, BBQ, Beef, And More / Re: Cuban Numbers Pork

« on: June 08, 2017, 0017 UTC »

Yup. Even Al would eat one. He'd likely stuff himself and claim the gas from the frijoles negras on the side were the onset of "brain bubbles".

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General Radio Discussion / Re: C-QUAM

« on: June 07, 2017, 0114 UTC »

It's rare to find a public school system where history is taught these days, Chris. It's all about getting the highest test scores in the district and state, in math, reading and science. Public schools have gone to Hell in the past 35 years.

It's why you can have President that can bloviate long and loud about Andrew Jackson's struggles being President during the Civil War, Jackson having been dead for over 15 years before it started, without being ran out of office for being a blithering idiot about the history of the country he's been elected to be Chief Executive of. Half of the country is as woefully ignorant as he is, due largely to being failed by the educational "reforms" of the mid-80's.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: Some interesting propagation data for a pirate transmission

« on: June 07, 2017, 0042 UTC »

I can tell you from experiences why most Eastern SW pirates don't target the West, MDK, population densities. A pirate east of the Mississippi can string up a modest antenna using a moderate amount of power and cover 2/3's of the population of North America in the late afternoon with a decent signal.

West of say, Kansas City, the population is spread out over a large area and often very sparse except for the urban areas. You have to use more power to reach far fewer people, which costs more money to pull off.

What I've always wondered is why there aren't more SW pirates out West? That's always tended to be the stomping ground of what a friend once called "worm-warmers" , FM pirates who build costly studios and use transmitters that if they were using the same power on SW would get them across the country, instead of a 20 mile circle that by mode and nature make them dead easy to df.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: C-QUAM

« on: June 07, 2017, 0022 UTC »

That's what Amelia said when she defected to the Tojo's on her supposed flight around the world. She changed her name to Nagasaki Nelly and the rest is history.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: WPPB-FM 88.3 Southampton, NY lightning strike

« on: June 07, 2017, 0016 UTC »

There's a local AM/FM that seems like it goes dark every time the sky darkens up. That's what happens when you build a whopper antenna on top of a mountain. The constant wind up towards the top can build up quite a static charge. Throw in a disturbed atmosphere and "zap", there goes the feed.