N5OT quipped:
"I understand his station was taken out by a tornado. All they could find
was the 12 inch cooling duct from the top of his final."
Here's a real story from a few weeks ago.
I was on 75M looking for a certain Baltimore net. No luck; the band was
too "long". But I did find another group of guys chatting near the freq,
and I read the mail while I tuned for the Baltimore net. They were mostly
in NJ and NY. With one of the stations, every time he came on there was a
"clunk!", and some pretty bad hum on his audio. After a few minutes the
band started to get too long for them, too, and they went to QSY to 160M.
I took the opportunity to call the guy with the hum and tell him about it.
He replied:
"(Clunk!) Yes, it's acoustic hum from my plate transformer."
Well, he was, in fact, pretty loud.
73, Art K3KU
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