Ray Waldemar, WA6NVL, is an early adopter of electronic technologies that find their way into amateur radio including the first Apple 1 computer, first instances of repeaters, remote base stations, digital modes, D-Star, and now DMR. Active on HF, VHF, UHF, and Microwave, from SSB to satellites. Ray just likes it all for the technical challenges and the social connections he makes from almost 50 years in the amateur radio hobby. WA6NVL is my QSO Today. Regarding the picture: Ray is not standing next to the next AMSAT OSCAR service vehicle, FYI Show Notes: http://www.qsotoday.com/podcasts/WA6NVL Podcast Link: http://traffic.libsyn.com/qsotoday/Episode_233_Ray_Waldemar_WA6NVL_Final.mp3 iTunes Store: http://goo.gl/CvLNmV Stitcher: http://goo.gl/uhf1XZ
Here is the classic: Dave Barry torturing his teen age son with the Weinermobile. https://www.miamiherald.com/living/liv-columns-blogs/dave-barry/article1934773.html Enjoy!
The picture in the original post is better than this one (near Mansfield, PA) from several years ago. This would be the Wheeeeeeeeeeener mobile.
Here is a bit of trivia relating to the early days of the Weiner Mobile and it's most famous personality associated with it: Meinhard Raabe. Meinhardt and I have the same hometown: Watertown, WI. Enjoy the article below and best of 73, Denny WB9MSM Meat maker Oscar F. Mayer, on a suggestion from his nephew built the cylindrical- shaped vehicle per specifications: long and lean, like an actual hot dog wiener. But it was also very tight inside. So Mayer needed someone who was small enough to squeeze into it and pop his head out the trap door in the back. Meinhardt Raabe was the perfect fit. Raabe was a salesman at Oscar Mayer at the time and a natural performer. He was also 3-feet, 4-inches tall. Raabe had just returned from filming a movie in Los Angeles when Mayer approached him about the job. He accepted and became “Little Oscar: The World’s Smallest Chef.” For the next thirty years, Raabe traveled by Wienermoble, appeared in Oscar Mayer ads, and was the smiling face on every single hot dog package sold. Hardly anyone recognized him from the movie he appeared in and released in 1939. But that would change. Raabe’s short line from the film, “She’s not only merely dead, she’s really most sincerely dead,” would keep him busy with appearances until his death in 2010. At the time, at the age of 94, he was the oldest surviving munchkin from “The Wizard of Oz.” Meinhardt Raabe as the coroner from the “Wizard of Oz”
