What is the "DUMBEST" thing you ever did????????

metro121 · Post by **metro121** » Sun Jul 14, 2002 6:40 am

I got married.

RESCUE161 · Post by **RESCUE161** » Sun Jul 14, 2002 3:25 pm

Me too, then I got smart and got divorced...!!!

Post by **xmo** » Sun Jul 14, 2002 3:32 pm

When you run into some young guy who is hot to get married tell him:

"Listen son. Save yourself all the grief that comes in the middle (after the honeymoon). Just go out - find a woman you hate - and buy her a house."

Tom in D.C. · Post by **Tom in D.C.** » Sun Jul 14, 2002 3:54 pm

You never know what true happiness is until you get married; then it's too late!

Tom in D.C.

perthcom · Post by **perthcom** » Sun Jul 14, 2002 4:26 pm

Marriage is a wonderful institution...
But now that I'm out... I never want to live in an institution anymore!

mobiletechcom · Post by **mobiletechcom** » Sun Jul 14, 2002 4:34 pm

LOVE is "grand".....DIVORCE is "10grand"........stay single,, buy what you want

Post by Pj » Sun Jul 14, 2002 4:39 pm

Reflashed an IMBE radio with the LAPD codeplug since the dept would never go digital.... Then come to find out 3 years later that the dept that never spends money is buying an IMBE digital system....

--Grrrrr

perthcom · Post by **perthcom** » Sun Jul 14, 2002 7:22 pm

10 grand for a divorce!!
wow...
wish mine was only 10K..
that was the retainer for the lawyer to start!

thgiz · Post by **thgiz** » Sun Jul 14, 2002 7:59 pm

Not asking a "friend of mine" a second time the question "what's in the box?" as he trew it in the back of my car. then opening the front door of my house to the words "you have the right to remain silent...."

Jonathan KC8RYW · Post by **Jonathan KC8RYW** » Sun Jul 14, 2002 8:18 pm

perthcom wrote:10 grand for a divorce!!
wow...
wish mine was only 10K..
that was the retainer for the lawyer to start!

Canadian money is worth less the US money, remember.

oa4ko · Post by **oa4ko** » Mon Jul 15, 2002 6:30 am

When I was a kid I thought Ham Radio will never die.

nmfire10 · Post by **nmfire10** » Mon Jul 15, 2002 7:54 am

oa4ko wrote:When I was a kid I thought Ham Radio will never die.

I wouldn't call it "dead". Although, I'm sure without this laptop and internet here in this room, I would have quite an elaborate ham radio station here. I just take a portable inside with me now instead.

mike m · Post by **mike m** » Mon Jul 15, 2002 2:31 pm

Went out with this 18 year old girl once and had a great day and a half then about half a year later I went out with her older sister (21 years old) and spilled the beans about the younger sister and about the great time I had etc. totally forgeting that they were related, to much beer can do that to ya. But it turned out ok after a while they both forgot about it but the younger one was a lot more funner than the older one after that.

If you meant about radios now ? well then there was the time I took an ax to an old RCA land mobile piece of crap, that was fun but nothing like the two sisters.

MM

Radio_Cowboy · Post by **Radio_Cowboy** » Tue Jul 16, 2002 12:11 am

Dumbest thing I've ever done? Not winning the lottery.....Now I gotta work every day for "THE MAN"

-RC-

KG6EAQ · Post by **KG6EAQ** » Tue Jul 16, 2002 12:17 am

Well there was that time I dropped an HT600 in a porta-john..... After that day I used the leather holster with the snaping T-strap! No more porta clips for me!

Radio_Cowboy · Post by **Radio_Cowboy** » Tue Jul 16, 2002 12:33 am

Hey Robert,

That brings a whole new meaning to having a Sh*t*y Radio!!!

Sorry, couldn't resist....see what too much beer at 2:30 in the morning does to ya?

KD6SRI · Post by **KD6SRI** » Tue Jul 16, 2002 7:59 am

Robert,
Did you leave it in the porta-john or did you fish it out and sell it at the local ham radio swapmeet?

Adam
KD6SRI

KG6EAQ wrote:Well there was that time I dropped an HT600 in a porta-john..... After that day I used the leather holster with the snaping T-strap! No more porta clips for me!

Monty · Post by **Monty** » Tue Jul 16, 2002 10:19 am

Some of the many:

Back in 1981

I Was repairing a High-Power 375 Watt MSY Paging Base
Station, and needed to work on why the power
was so low, so I by-passed the HV Door switch
thinking that being carfull would be enough.

While Secruring some loose hardware, the transmitter
was activated by remote control, and the Blue / White
RF Sparks decided the best path to ground was through
me !, still have the scars with the RF Burns on the arm,
and the hole in the wall where the screw driver was
thrown.

I now have much more respect for RF Energy ( at any level )

MS

spectragod · Post by **spectragod** » Tue Jul 16, 2002 6:39 pm

I opened and read this post!! SG

MT2000 man · Post by **MT2000 man** » Tue Jul 16, 2002 6:58 pm

I actually listened to my boss for the first time

CODE 4 · Post by **CODE 4** » Tue Jul 16, 2002 10:46 pm

I PURCHASED 4-HT1000'S 3- GP300'S, 1- SABER I, 2- HT600'S, 1- MT1000, 5- HT750'S AND 1- XTS3000 JUST CAUSE I HAVE A THING FOR RADIOS. I GUESS MOTOROLA NEEDED MY MONEY.

KG6EAQ · Post by **KG6EAQ** » Tue Jul 16, 2002 10:58 pm

KD6SRI (And everybody else) -

I still have the radio

I use it everyday, quite often too! All I did was hose it off at the location, then disenfect it once I returned home... tough radio!

Nand · Post by **Nand** » Wed Jul 17, 2002 2:30 pm

AngelFire_91 · Post by **AngelFire_91** » Wed Jul 17, 2002 4:31 pm

Nand wrote:Logging into Batlabs, knowing that there are lots of other things I need to do.
This place is addictive.

Nand.

I agree.

Bob · Post by **Bob** » Wed Jul 17, 2002 6:12 pm

Nand wrote:Logging into Batlabs, knowing that there are lots of other things I need to do.
This place is addictive.

been there, done that, got the paycheck to prove it

oa4ko · Post by **oa4ko** » Fri Jul 19, 2002 6:26 am

nmfire10 wrote:
I just take a portable inside with me now instead.[/quote wrote:
Oh! Matt. A portable? VHF or UHF? That's just FM CB. Ham radio was when you designed and built your transmitters, receivers, VFO's, antennas, tuners, phone patch, audio compressors, transverters and stuff like that. Then you tune 50 MHz and work Japan with just 50 watts AM, and a 6 element double spaced Yagi you designed, built and installed yourself, then you grab the Callbook and sent a QSL and received yours for DXCC. That was Ham radio, that was good old times. Then came SSB commercial made transceivers, FM Repeaters and ham radio turned into CB. Then, some smart guys tried Packet Radio and ham radio was again alive for a while, but then after Internet swallowed all of us.

Sorry, I'm off topic.

wa2zdy · Post by **wa2zdy** » Fri Jul 19, 2002 9:49 am

oa4ko is absolutely correct. That was ham radio. When hams knew the stuff we are supposed to know, knew how to build stuff, fix it, knew how it worked. And accepted the requirements for a license rather than whined about them. Did what had to be done.

Oh well, I'm glad I got to be part of it before the "now generation" and "me generation" got a chance to screw it up.

jim · Post by **jim** » Fri Jul 19, 2002 7:42 pm

Stupidest thing with radio......um.....

I once was holding a D-104 and keyed a 900 watt amplifier and my right elbow touched the top of one of it's 6LQ6 tubes. Ouch.

Ray D. O'Mann #2 · Post by **Ray D. O'Mann #2** » Sun Jul 21, 2002 5:44 pm

Dropped a #2 stranded positive battery cable onto the freshly-rechromed fender of a fire truck (unintended arc-welding is not fun) with the firefighter standing 12" away, watching.

...and then I did it again 5 minutes later.

oa4ko · Post by **oa4ko** » Tue Jan 31, 2012 6:54 pm

That was 10 YEARS ago. Now in 2012 I'm again playing with hi-tech receivers... and computers. This time planning to run Marine AIS and ADS-B data services. No license required though... and no QSL's either.

Sorry, OT again.
Cheers

KD6SRI · Post by **KD6SRI** » Wed Feb 01, 2012 2:37 pm

OMG! I posted to this (see above) almost TEN YEARS ago. WOW, a lot has changed since then, but I still have the Yaesu FT-530 I had back then. Awesome HT!

JerryS · Post by **JerryS** » Wed Feb 01, 2012 6:04 pm

I bet a friend that I could grab the battery post on my car with wet hands and nothing would happen

just use your imagination and it happened.

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