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   Bill Ricker (n1vux@mastodon.radio)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 02:23:52 JST Bill Ricker

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   • Imogen

   @HopelessDemigod
   (Also, ferrite chokes on your power cords.)

   My old original Elmer, Chet the original W1NR/sk, got WAA, Worked All Appliances. (Our houses shared a 2-phase pole transformer, so no isolation.) Luckily for my Dad who had Army-related Morse-code PTSD and the rest of us, Chet was an A.M. rag-chewer, not an original-digital dah-di-dah or single-side-duck contester. (As a former Navy radioman, Chet referred to SSB as Air Force modulation.)
   ( He knew we heard his neighbors-gossip.

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     Imogen (hopelessdemigod@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 02:23:54 JST Imogen

     Martha, come here a moment.

     Look.

     That wasn't there this morning, was it?

     No. The Andersons took their antenna with them when they moved.

     Just our luck.

     What?

     Ham radio operators.

     You know what they do to radio and tv reception.

     Dad?

     Yeah, Ellen?

     I don't know what's the matter, but I was listening to my radio and all of a sudden, it began picking up these weird voices.

     Ham radio operators.

     Is there anything we can do about it?

     We can make sure they've got a license to operate.

     Robert Link repeated this.