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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 19:20:50 EDT
From: K5BDZ at aol.com
To: GQRP at yahoogroups.com, hqrp at stevens.com, qrp-l at lehigh.edu,
        tentec at contesting.com
Cc: wn3vaw at fyi.net
Subject: [124368] Ham Radio 101 course

For those who thought the hardest part of Ham Radio 101 was passing the 
novice written exam, let alone (Heaven forbid) the constant conversion from 
feet and inches to the metric system, including all its Newtons, Joules, and 
Watts, here are some other useful conversions:  

Pick the one(s) that are correct - 

Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter:
Eskimo Pi

2000 pounds of Chinese soup:
Won ton

1 millionth of a mouthwash:
1 microscope

Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement:
1 bananosecond

Weight an evangelist carries with God:
1 billigram

Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour:
Knot-furlong

65.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because it's less filling:
1 lite year

16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone:
1 Rod Serling

Half of a large intestine:
1 semicolon

1000 aches:
1 megahurtz

Basic unit of laryngitis:
1 hoarsepower

Shortest distance between two jokes:
A straight line

454 graham crackers:
1 pound cake

1 million-million microphones:
1 megaphone

1 million bicycles:
2 megacycles

2000 mockingbirds:
two kilomockingbirds

10 cards:
1 decacards

1 kilogram of falling figs:
1 Fig Newton

1000 grams of wet socks:
1 literhosen

1 millionth of a fish:
1 microfiche

1 trillion pins:
1 terrapin

10 rations:
1 decoration

100 rations:
1 C-ration

2 monograms:
1 diagram

8 nickels:
2 paradigms

2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University
Hospital:
1 I.V. League

100 Senators:
Not 1 decision.


Bill K5BDZ

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Date: Sun, 05 May 2002 17:02:09 -0400
From: W2AGN <w2agn at w2agn.net>
To: John Wagner <john at wagner-usa.net>,
        Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion <qrp-l at Lehigh.EDU>
Subject: [126158] Re: Extra Crispy

On Sunday 05 May 2002 16:55, John Wagner wrote:

>
> Extra Juicy - This is for the ham thas has some information is just bustin'
> to get it out there.
>
> Extra Extra - This is for the ham that does stuff that no other hams can
> do, nor would other hams ever think of doing. He sometimes plays "stump the
> dummy" on internet mailing lists.
>
> Extra Large - This is for the ham that goes to the hamfest but never leaves
> the sausage stand.
>
> Extra Special - This is for the ham that scored 100% on his or her test.
>
> Extra Caring - This ham cares if people say "10-4" or "roger" on the air.
>
> Extra Stinky - We all know one of these.
>
> OK - I feel better now.
>
> 73,
>
> John, N1QO

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You left ff your Subject:

Extra Crispy - The ham who sticks his hand in his linear with the plate 
voltage on.

and of course:

Extra Sauce - too many 807s

Extra- aneous - what this post probably is.

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      John L Sielke   W2AGN
         w2agn at w2agn.net
      http://www.w2agn.net
 
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