A good news reporter would have taken the time to learn how to spell
"Farrah Fawcett" correctly...
Bruce Kripton wrote:
> Jeesh - must be nice to NOT have to work for a living, waiting for your
> stimulus check, have free Internet access, provisioned by the inventor of the
> Internet, Al Gore, and aimlessly render all of this ....
>
> By the way, it was mildly amusing, especially since no one will know who Lee
> Majors was married to by the year 2032. Besides, the Moon will have it's own
> magnetosphere by then, and instead or trans-equitorial propagation, we'll
> have folks complaining about solar system grid circling.....
>
> -KG6IYN
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --- On Tue, 2/24/09, radioman01@comcast.net <radioman01@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> From: radioman01@comcast.net <radioman01@comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] June 2032 intergalatic vhf sweepstakes
> To: vhfcontesting@contesting.com
> Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2009, 8:40 PM
>
> Good lord, someone needs to go watch TV for a while...
>
>
> Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone with Nextel Direct Connect
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: frank bechdoldt <k3uhf@hotmail.com>
>
> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:26:39
> To: <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
> Subject: [VHFcontesting] June 2032 intergalatic vhf sweepstakes
>
>
>
>
> Here’s a clip from the future….
>
> June Intergalactic VHF sweepstakes review QST 2032
>
> An unnamed California group bought a surplus ICBM from the dilapidated US Air
> force and launched it to the moon. On board was a missile platform that drops
> 10
> warheads, or in this case , eleven band mobile lunch box stations. With the
> exception of melting the picture of Ferrah Faucet off the cover of the pink
> Charlie’s Angels lunch box, all 10 lunch boxes arrived unharmed.
>
> This new effort was on account of key VUAC members pushing through a rule
> change the new rule allows the use of remote control stations to activate
> rare
> grids. This was done in the name of driver safety, saving the environment,
> eliminating wasted gas from rovers and portable stations with generators,
> leveling the playing field in the fly/talk over states and rf safety for all
> citizens on the highways.
>
> However the ARRL overlooked the possibility of extraterrestrial grid circling
> via remote stations mounted on remote control vehicles.
> The lunchbox lunar rovers are interfaced to tie wrapped IC 02s and are
> connected to solar powered segways. The lunchboxes are designed to receive
> commands from earth stations are deployed in adjacent lunar grids grid.
> However the Lunchbox coordinator’s plans for interstellar victory were
> foiled. None of the earth bound stations in his club had equipment or
> antennas
> powerful enough to work the moon at their home QTHs. So while conditions for
> ripe for contacts on the lunar surface, all ten lunar lunch box rovers (LLBRs)
> sat idol for the june contest.
>
> However this is only a minor set back as the lunchbox coordinator vows to
> build
> ten, 11 band eme stations and place them strategically throughout the
> southwestern desert. Ironically none of these stations are intended to work
> stations on earth, but will surely become a powerhouse in the portable
> category
> as well as the other new and old rover categories: QRP rovers, dummy load
> rovers, traditional rovers, Limited rovers, Really limited rovers, honest
> rovers. Impoverished rovers, rovers with angry wives, school bus rovers and
> unlimited rovers.
>
> Meanwhile a vhf group in New England is vowing not to be outscored on the
> lunar
> surface. They are immediately contracting with Virgin intergalactic supply
> INC.
> to set up an exclusive colony on the moon. They plan on colonizing the Peary
> Crater of the Moon. It is 73km across and contains approximately 25 grid
> squares within the confines of it’s deep crater walls. (grids are about 6 x
> 12 miles on the moon).
> An unnamed source was quoted as saying. “by ensuring that we are the first
> hams on the moon and making sure we are all located in the confines of the
> mile
> deep crater, we will be able to contain our QSOs to our selves, spread out
> across several grids in the crater for multipliers, while ensuring we maintain
> the population density contest advantage on the lunar surface by being the
> only
> hams there!
>
> However while New England Hams gleam with joy in thoughts of Lunar VHF
> dominations, they may meet stiff opposition from Mrs. Hendrickson, the
> president
> Peary Crater Neighborhood association who maintains that external antennas and
> foreign structures have always clashed with the natural beauty of the Lunar
> surface since the days of Neil Armstrong. While not currently inhabiting the
> Crater, or the Moon, Mrs Hendrickson was quick to form a home owners
> association
> and draft a set of CC&Rs when she bought her deed for lunar property off of
> EBay in 1998.
>
> When it was brought to the attention of both the California group and the New
> England group that they would be both on the moon they were asked if they
> intended on working each other. Both said no, its not the spirit of the
> contest.
>
> The ARRL is vowing to get it right by the time the Martian surface is
> gridded.
> They are reaching out to NASA on rover rules , citing their success with some
> mars rovers in the distant past. They still decline to use any judgment in the
> future, citing that they are saving their resources for intergalactic BPL
> interference.
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