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Old June 6th 08, 01:04 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.equipment
Dee Flint Dee Flint is offline
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Default Overweight hams ( What are almost all the new ham radios ugly?)

Look around you and you will find that it's pretty much true of the entire
population not just hams.

Dee


"Jiggly" wrote in message
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The hobby has lots of people who are morbidly obese.
(See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morbid_obesity for definition)

Sadly, many of them die from weight-related causes. We lose a lot of
nice people and good operators that way.


On 02 Jun 2008 13:44:56 GMT, Bert Hyman wrote:

In "D. Stussy"
wrote:

Considering that many "hams" are grossly overweight (at least in my
geographic area), are you certain?


It's pretty clear that you've picked the wrong hobby.

Good luck.