On Wed, 28 May 2008 16:00:50 -0700, "D. Stussy"
wrote:

"Middle Aged Ham" wrote in
message news
Why are almost all the new HF ham radios so ugly? HF Ham radios use
to be a thing of beauty, but now most of them are butt ugly!

Because amateur radio operators who call themselves "hams" are ugly.



I've said for some time Hamfest should be called "Ham and Ugly Fest".

I'm not sure which has more ugly people. A Hamfest or a CB Jamboree.

The IQ is higher at the hamfest, but so is the nerd factor.

Also hamfest are more likely to have the old guy walking around with
the oxygen tank and plastic tube up his nose.

When I was young the girls thought I was nice looking and my radio was
ugly. Now my radio is nice looking, and I ain't what I use to be.