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Old February 3rd 06, 10:45 PM posted to uk.radio.amateur,rec.radio.amateur.homebrew,rec.radio.amateur.policy
Gerard Lynch
 
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Wescott"

It's even more impressive if you sing it to the tune of "Modern Major
General" -- the penultimate line has to be forced to scan, but the rest
flows nicely.



We are the very model of the modern radio amateur
We like to speak to countries strange while sitting in our arm-a-chair,
Our QSOs with digimodes and microphone are hard earned
(Of course we don't use rubbish like that old morse code we haven't
learned).

We have a whizzy handheld 'coz it makes us look much neater -
Of course we don't use it to talk, just key up the repeater
Except of course when 'breakers' from two streets away give us a shout,
Then we tie it up for hours, forgetting 'bout the time out.

(Then we tie it up for hours, fogetting 'bout the time out.)

We don't know what a dipole is so can't get ourselves on the air
But Echolink and E-QueSo means that we really couldn't care
With every cheaper foreign calls you'd wonder why we bother -
The answer to that mystery still hasn't been discovered.

I think this could be better - but it's Friday night, so time for even me to
go and get a life!

--
73

Gerry G0RTN
Vanity Page at http://www.gerrylynch.co.uk
"In days of old, when ops were bold, and sidebands not invented,
The word would pass, by pounding brass, and all were well contented."


 
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