Text 1881, 84 rader
Skriven 2014-10-24 13:02:40 av Mike Luther (1:117/100.0)
   Kommentar till text 1878 av Ed Vance (13555.windowsa)
Ärende: Re: Biking
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 Well. it gets more interesting if you are real rich!

 EV> 10-21-14 16:16 Holger Granholm wrote to Ed Vance about Re: Biking

 HG> Hi Ed,
 EV> Howdy! Holger,
 EV> -snip-
 HG> One Q-signal that doesn't need a question mark is the QLF
 HG> signal which is an unofficial one that is a question in itself,
 HG> "Are you sending with your left foot".

 EV> I am Left Handed and one time back in 1960 I placed the J-38 Key on the
 EV> floor and made a QSO using my Left Foot.

 Back in the 1960's plus when I was using machine language to compose code
 to work with my W5WQN CW operations via my Heathkit H89 and also was using
 a J-38 strapped to my right leg when I was driving to send CW - mobile I
 had a real good friend, W4---/M, who was a fabulous mobile CW op. He could
 whip the heck out of me on my J-38, even though I could hit close to 100WPM
 receiving no problem.  I asked him, "How?"  He told me he was driving his
 Greyhound Bus RV all over the US and it had a keyboard!  I was stunned!
 I asked him, "How do you CW while driving?"  He told me his keyboard was
 bolted on top of the steering wheel for the bus!   We went through several
 more QSO's and then I noticed that every now and then there would be a
 few short brief moments when he would go silent while sending to me!

I asked him, "Why do you quit sending every now and then?"  He told me that
when he had to turn off the highway on to the side road, the keyboard would
sometimes have to be rotated over more than one total twirl!  He could still
send CW on his keyboard even up perpendicular to the normal, but he could never
learn how to send CW with the keyboard upside down.  Sometime later he vanished
from 40 meter CW mobile.  I suspect I know why but I have never snooped into
that.

 HG> If you can stay upright with one foot off the ground (floor)
 HG> you do have the balance needed for biking. If not, stay off any
 HG> two wheeled bikes.

 EV> Thanks!, I will try that.
 EV> My technique usually is to have the pedals Level, Sit on the seat and
 EV> go, but that was probably 5 years ago that I rode a bike.

 EV> I am going to try placing a Concrete Block next to my Backyard Fence,
 EV> stand on it with the pedal on the other side of the bike UP and try
 EV> starting as You described.

 EV> If I fall towards the fence I won't fall far, and if I fall the other
 EV> way I will have the missus to keep me from kissing Mother Earth.

 EV> ... Honest, Occifer!  There's no blood in my alcohol content.

Yes, alcohol can really be a problem with fences in many ways!  Back in the
early 1970's when I was employed as an airplane pilot and technical grunt I did
know about fence this and that.  Remember the little poem?  'You're in the army
now, you're not behind the plow.  You'll never get rich with your tank in the
ditch, you're in the army now!'  I was singing the song to a friend who was way
up in the banking business at the time.  He asked me,"What's in your tank?"  I
didn't understand what he wanted.  He told me, "Alcohol. Mikey!"  I told him
I'd never heard that part in the song.  He told me he learned it very
personally!  One of the huge richest bank owners he knew used to throw huge
parties on Halloween and Christmas at his rural ranch.  Loaded up with alcohol,
so told me, this money master wound up having to go to the bathroom badly!  So
he wandered off over in the rural private area to his fence line.  And never
came back!  The 'guests' went off to see what was going on.  He had pulled his
pants down and sat down on the wire to excrete!  Drunk as a skunk!  He had
passed out and twirled off backwards over the fence!  Where they had to extract
him and whatever. My freind tolde me he guessed he was missing someone as well,
chortle!

Then this friend of mine told ne, Be sure to be careful how you are before you
get in a ditch near a fence, Mikey!  Have a missey to watch over you when you
get your rig in the ditch!"

Sorry, that would never happen, I've hated alcohol ever since my Dad tried to
get me to drink beer when I was three years of age on Guernsey Street in
College Station, Texas.  Never drink or had any interest in smoking after at a
couple years after that some of my boy neighbors tried to force me to smoke
grape vine over and over and I HATED it!


Mike N117C at 1:117/100

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