N3IBX 1958 - 2019
Joseph M. 'Vortex Joe' Cro
Washington Crossing, PA
QCWA # 37202
Chapter 5
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First Call: KA3NIO in 1985
Also known as "Vortex Joe": Restore Boatanchors
(1) Search for Boatanchors
(2) Work 160M AM
(3) AM OPs on other bands.
(4) Build Antennas
(5) Repair and modify transmitters/Receivers.
(6) Operate vintage SSB gear.
(7) repair vintage SSB gear.
(8) search for more radios - I honestly need them since I quit going out to sleazy bars and schmoozing with tarts! (it's actually safer working with B+)
(9) Spending more time on the radio.
(10) Quantum physics
(11) Metaphysics
(12) Pataphysical manifestations of # 11.
(13) Using vacuum tube equiptment to search for black holes in space.
(14) Using external audio processing to attain 200 percent positive peaks with no distortion.
(15) collecting vacuum tubes.
(16) rewiring modulation transformers.
(17) grinding crystals.
(18) using electronic test equiptment.
(19) repairing electronic test equiptment.
(20) collecting vintage electronic test equiptment.
(21) eating pizza and cheesesteaks.
(22) passing gas in public - pull my finger - hi hi!
(23) eating sharp imported provolone.
(23) reading about homebrew equiptment.
(24) Making an occasional belch or "bundzee" on the air for the sole purpose of testing high level plate modulated AM fidelity.
While I'm not involved in one of the above pursuits I am usually busy writing my Doctoral thesis to complete my post-graduate studies at LaSorbonne.
May there be a "breakthrough in the grey room" - fool said the muse, Catch me disappearing in the smokerings of my mind.
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