Interesting Net on 40M

[kg4kww]

Listening to the Rotten Apples Net on 40m around 7.240.

These guys are booming in.

[kg4kww]

This net was on around 18:30 frs et.

Anyone ever heard them??

[kf6rdn]

Net + Interesting = Oxymoron

[KC9ECI]

I have heard the Rotten Apples before. They sounded like they were having fun at the time.

[KB3LIX]

I'm sure it was WAYYYYYY more interesting than listening to the nightly edition of:

"My colostomy bags full, and no one here to clean it out."

Or that everloving favorite:

"My appendix burst today, and I must go see the doctor tomorrow."

Or that RIP-ROARING Comedy:

"My bleeding PUSTULES are back, and I can't get them to stop bleeding !"

Currently airing on an amateur frequency near you !

[N2RJ]

We got it Greg, you're on HF now.

[ky5u]

Quote[/b] (KB3LIX @ Mar. 30 2007,19:19)]I'm sure it was WAYYYYYY more interesting than listening to the nightly edition of:

"My colostomy bags full, and no one here to clean it out."

Or that everloving favorite:

"My appendix burst today, and I must go see the doctor tomorrow."

Or that RIP-ROARING Comedy:

"My bleeding PUSTULES are back, and I can't get them to stop bleeding !"

Currently airing on an amateur frequency near you !
Your future is proclaimed by your own words.

[kg4kww]

Good point Charlie.

[kf6rdn]

If, in the future, the only topic I can come up with is my current medical condition, someone, somewhere, PLEASE shoot me!

I have nothing against, I was out riding, broke my arm, but the litany of aches and pains heard.

[KC9ECI]

My spleen is green.

[KB3LIX]

Quote[/b] (AG4YO @ Mar. 30 2007,21:37)]Quote[/b] (KB3LIX @ Mar. 30 2007,19:19)]I'm sure it was WAYYYYYY more interesting than listening to the nightly edition of:

"My colostomy bags full, and no one here to clean it out."

Or that everloving favorite:

"My appendix burst today, and I must go see the doctor tomorrow."

Or that RIP-ROARING Comedy:

"My bleeding PUSTULES are back, and I can't get them to stop bleeding !"

Currently airing on an amateur frequency near you !
Your future is proclaimed by your own words.
Sorry Charlie........Wasn't that a line from a commercial http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif

Anyhow,
not really, at least on one topic,

my appendix vanished years ago.
I guess I should get on a net, any net and proclaim that to the WORLD !!!!!!

[N5KRC]

Rotten Apples (http://hometown.aol.com/RottenApplesARG/rottenapples.html)

[AB6ND]

If you hear the guy giving all the gory details about how he cured his dog of Mange I hope it's after you've eaten, because it brings about a sudden loss of appetite.
73
AB6ND

[w3dub]

Sad thing is.. these are real QSOs.

A sign you need young blood in the hobby http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[K0HWY]

Not so long ago, they used to put these nifty little knobs on the radio. When you turned it, it allowed you to find another frequency. Honestly, if the old guys want to talk to each other about their medical conditions, what's the problem? As someone pointed out, someday in the not so distant future, that will be every one of us here. What do we expect them to do, just be quiet and sit there and die?

[KI4NGN]

If you find a QSO boring or repetitive, how about turning the dial and starting your very own 'interesting' QSO? You may be surprised to know that what you find interesting is boring to another.

If you happen to be one of those types who thinks ham radio QSOs should be about ham radio and nothing else, then I suggest you get some diversity in your life.

What do people chat about when not on the radio? Politics? Religion? Sex? Work? Health? Other hobbies? Gossip? Family? Life? Death? Why do you think that ham radio should be any different?

Most people in a conversation are chatting about something in common.

As you get older, the state of your health, normally deteriorating in some way, does become something you have very in common with others racing along in age. That group constitutes a large number of current ops.

Can't wait for them to move along so that you don't 'have' to listen to them? Guess what? As they move along, you get closer to where they are! You're going to be surprised to discover how much your health is a topic of conversation with others who have the same or similar problems in common.

[N2RJ]

Quote[/b] (KB3JGU @ Mar. 31 2007,01:18)]Sad thing is.. these are real QSOs.

A sign you need young blood in the hobby http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
Like me?

(ham for 10 years and counting...)

[W5HTW]

I sort of look at it this way. There is a fellow on there talking about his prostate problem. Unless he is broadcasting, he is talking TO someone. And that someone is still there, so I reckon that someone tolerates it. And may even reply in kind about his flesh eating disease. It's a conversation. They have a right to that. If I don't like it, I neither butt in nor bitch. I simply go find somewhere else to listen.

It is true, I may not care for that type of conversation. So I'm sitting here this morning trying to remember the last time I listened to one. Uh, ... still trying. Hmmm. Still no answer. I wonder if that makes me smarter than the guy who sits there listening to something he hates, or dumber. I guess I'm not smart enough to figure that one out.

Like the old doc said, "If it hurts to do that, don't do that." I think it may would hurt me to do that, so I don't do that.

I'm old, got enough health problems of my own, don't need to hear about others. It can be depressing.

Of course, I do like to watch 'House' on TV! So I'm not totally immune.

Ed

[KI4ODO]

I'm gonna chime in here. Old people talk about their health, it's part of being old. They talk about it with other old folks normally who can relate, understand and encourage them. They have earned the right (in my opinion) to ramble on for days at the time about their health if they want. I have a dial I can spin if it gets to be too much. But lets be patient with our elders, more often then not they have earned it, and deserve it. Just my two cents.
73, Marvin http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[kb2vxa]

Reciprocity means being patient with our elders, many of them are patients with us. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[W0BKR]

Try a local repeater near you and listen to:

"what are you doing tonite?"

"I dunno, what are going to do"

"Dunno"


Pause


"What video game did you get last week?"

"Nothing new, same old stuff"

"What's going on?"

"Nothing"

"What's going on with you?"

"Nothin"

"Did you hear about Stacey?"

"What"


zzzzzzz

No need for Lunesta with that crowd of Amateur Radio Enhancers!



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[W0BKR]

Quote[/b] (KI4PEQ @ Mar. 30 2007,23:14)]Quote[/b] (KB3LIX @ Mar. 30 2007,20:19)]I'm sure it was WAYYYYYY more interesting than listening to the nightly edition of:

"My colostomy bags full, and no one here to clean it out."

Or that everloving favorite:

"My appendix burst today, and I must go see the doctor tomorrow."

Or that RIP-ROARING Comedy:

"My bleeding PUSTULES are back, and I can't get them to stop bleeding !"

Currently airing on an amateur frequency near you !
Even better:

"I don't know what I'm going to do about this bad case of piles I have, all this sitting down in the shack, I have to park my butt on a inflatable donut to get any sort of relief."
Must have been interesting...at least one person sat there and scribed it all down...

Get another hobby..please!

[kg4kww]

At least none of these people have contacted the net or been net control from the throne room.

[KB3LIX]

That will occur one of these days.


Come to think of it Greg, it probably has, just no one realized what that noise was.

FLUSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

[N2RJ]

Stand by 1, gotta wipe! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif

[k9zmd]

I have an 86 yr old dad who has outlived many of his lifelong friends. The few he has left, they all talk about their health, they sympathize and encourage one another, and they keep one another company. As that little crowd thins out, I only wish that Dad had ham radio to keep him company; I know that 75 meters is exactly where he would camp out. Not my cup of tea, and obviously not to the taste of many younger hams, but I agree with Marvin Quote[/b] ]They have earned the right (in my opinion) to ramble on for days at the time about their health if they want. To that I'll add that their singular interest in ham radio is every bit as legitimate and important to them as your contest, DXCC chase, EME, APRS, or EMCOM, etc., is to you. Spin the dial if you aren't interested in listening or joining them, and don't go off to ham radio forums and belittle those folks for their particular interests. 73

Gary, K9ZMD
Palmdale, CA

[KI4PEQ]

Quote[/b] (W0BKR @ Mar. 31 2007,12:00)]Quote[/b] (KI4PEQ @ Mar. 30 2007,23:14)]Quote[/b] (KB3LIX @ Mar. 30 2007,20:19)]I'm sure it was WAYYYYYY more interesting than listening to the nightly edition of:

"My colostomy bags full, and no one here to clean it out."

Or that everloving favorite:

"My appendix burst today, and I must go see the doctor tomorrow."

Or that RIP-ROARING Comedy:

"My bleeding PUSTULES are back, and I can't get them to stop bleeding !"

Currently airing on an amateur frequency near you !
Even better:

"I don't know what I'm going to do about this bad case of piles I have, all this sitting down in the shack, I have to park my butt on a inflatable donut to get any sort of relief."
Must have been interesting...at least one person sat there and scribed it all down...

Get another hobby..please!

So, are you channelling the ghost of Henny Youngman now?

Considering I have enough health issues where I could fit into any of the Geritol nets, even though I can't yet join AARP because I am too young, I still have enough sense of humor to make light of my frailties and those frailties of others. Bitching about them does nothing. Laughing when you really want to cry from pain and discomfort can bring some relief to the mental and physical condition.

I like amateur radio and intend to stay, the opinions of some disgruntled veteran amateurs notwithstanding.

[n1ydx]

Gee, that must be the 7240 Club. A group of hams, of various ages who meet Monday thru Saturday for some gossip. Of course due to age, I guess some problems come into the QSO's.

But I have not heard vulgar language or yelling and screaming. I have heard Bill, Reverend Bill, Dr Bill try to say hello to everyone. He's kinda old and is a retired minister.

If they are not on 7240 due to other folks crowding in, they move up a few kilos. I enjoy their net and if you work 10 different members on 10 different days, you can even get a certificate of being part of the 7240 club.

If you are really young, maybe you can join in and complain of your runny nose from the straw scrapes on the inside of your nose.

N1YDX - Lee

[K8MHZ]

Quote[/b] (KC9ECI @ Mar. 30 2007,15:01)]My spleen is green.
I got a sliver in my liver.

[kg4kww]

hey I have taken biz calls while holding court, a bit strange but, biz is biz.

BTW, 40m the past few days has been as dead as a hammer.

[kg4kww]

40 seems to be better today 4/5/07, hearing the rotton apples now on 7.238

[kg4kww]

Are broadcast stations that take over 40m in the evening on all night??

[kn4ds]

no... their schedules vary, though.

[wv6z]

Quote[/b] (kf6rdn @ Mar. 29 2007,17:15)]Net + Interesting = Oxymoron
DING DING DING DING!!!!!! CORRECT ANSWER!!!!!!

[wa9cwx]

I have heard a few of these QSOs, but I seldom listen on SSB, so VERY few.
What I DO remember, and could only listen for a few minuets each evening before turning it off, was a father and his adult daughter on one of our local repeaters.

They were on for years as I recall, moanng, yes I mean MOANING at eachother about their ills, aches, and how terrible their lives and pains were.

Each tried to out-do the other.

It was so horrible it was funny. One time listening, and you might think some sudden tragedy had befallen them, and clouded their vision of life.

But this was on EVERY night, after 11:00 PM or so, and went on for years.

At least it kept the repeater clear of humor, wouldn't want any of THAT screwing things up.

[ky5u]

Quote[/b] (k8mhz @ April 03 2007,06:46)]Quote[/b] (KC9ECI @ Mar. 30 2007,15:01)]My spleen is green.
I got a sliver in my liver.
I feel like there is Bowlin' in my Colon.

[ai4ep]

http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif zzzz

[kg4kww]

Quote[/b] ]AB2MH--Stand by 1, gotta wipe!

I like it, I bet its been done. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

I'm hearing Mid Cars this am and net control is booming in on 7.258. Lots of interesting snow reports.

[ai4ep]

...yep, they go mixing EASTER LILIES / dogwood blooms and 1 - 3 " snow accumulations, and they all go wild, like that aint never happened before any where else.

We had a small cloud layer of SNOW go through parts of northern Alabama last night, and the local tv stations made a bigger deal about it than it was to the ordinary citizen....around 9 - 10 pm....then it was all gone, back to just being an ordinary dark cold night in early April in Alabama.

These folks go out and buy these $100 - $500 wal - mart weather gadgets, with their digital displays , then get on the radio with

" we have 45.3 degrees, winds from the ese at 6.57 mph, but I cant tell you if the sky is cloudy or clear because the display dont tell me THAT part. " #(duh...look up #!! # # ) http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif