Subj : Re: Ugh
To   : Daryl Stout
From : Sean Dennis
Date : Thu Feb 25 2021 15:54:00

-=> Daryl Stout wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

 DS>   Is that the weather station at the NWS in Knoxville??

Yes.  That's the "in-house" ARS that's physically in the MRX office
which is in Morristown, about 45 minutes east of Knoxville.

 DS>   It isn't easy. What really bugs me now is all these (what I term
 DS> them) as "Hi, Bye, And QSY" hams..."Net Control, please checkin
 DS> [callsign], [name], [location], short time, no traffic"...and not a
 DS> minute later, they're doing the same thing on another net.

That's rampant everywhere.  The Tennessee Phone Net (3.980 at 1930
Eastern) has a special check-in for people who are leaving to go to
other nets.  I quit checking into that net because for some reason I'm
deaf to most of the NCS stations; I think it's because my antenna is
oriented north/south and I keep working them off the end of the antenna.

 DS>   The problem is, we can talk severe weather safety until we're blue in
 DS> the face, and folks still endanger their lives. When that nearly EF-5
 DS> tornado (it was a 190 mph EF-4 as it was...200 mph is EF-5) blasted
 DS> through Vilonia, Arkansas (the same area that was hit by an EF-2
 DS> tornado just 3 years earlier)...one of the hams (who's also in the
 DS> Air Force, and a meteorologist)...who was running the Skywarn Net
 DS> that night said "I do NOT want any of my spotters near this thing".

You'll get 'em.  Especially those batshit crazy storm chasers.

 DS>   Right after that, I got out of the hobby for 6 months...no nets,
 DS> no on the air time, no "getting a biscuit and a glass of tea", etc.
 DS> This was 25 years ago now...and I nearly quit the hobby back then.

I was a member of a particular club here locally and was the treasurer.
I was "accidentally" sent a copy of an email by the secretary where the
president of the club was saying things about me and calling me some
really vulgar names.  The next club meeting, I presented this email to
the club and announced not only my immediate resignation, my then-wife
and I told them to pound sand and left.

The club voted to refund our membership fees and that was the last I
dealt with them ... probably 12 years now.  Though that person is long
gone from the club, I refuse to have anything to do with them.

The icing on the cake?  This person's first name is Dick.

Fitting.

Later,
Sean

.... Not tonight, dear.  I have a modem.
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