-=> Daryl Stout wrote to TONY LANGDON <=-   
      
    DS>   Like Tim Duffy, K3LR, does. From what I've seen, that is the ULTIMATE   
    DS> contester's shack.   
      
   Most of mine for that price would be highly automated.  I'm not a contester, I   
   like building infrastructure. :)   
      
    DS> more than have their money back, especially when they try to sell it.   
    DS> So much of "no pecuniary interest". :P   
      
   As long as they don't use the radio to sell it. ;)   
      
    DS>   Several years ago, when I ran a local traders net, there was one ham   
    DS> who listed the same few items week after week. I never had a problem   
    DS> with that individual. Yet, there was another one who had several   
    DS> rotating sets of items, as it were. Rumor had it that he was doing it   
    DS> as a business, which is a violation of the rules. He confronted me   
    DS> once, and said "you're accusing me of running a business"...to which I   
    DS> said "I'm not accusing you of anything. But, if the shoe fits, wear   
    DS> it!!".   
      
   Hmm.  Well, they made it easy here, trading on air is not allowed at all.  In   
   fact, in the early days of IRLP and Echolink, I had to dump a net or two,   
   because they had a trading segment.   
      
    DS>   A few nights later, I had a bizarre dream (I don't recall what I ate   
    DS> for dinner, and I doubt I was being cannibalistic in eating ham (hi   
      
   LOL, and an interesting dream BTW.   
      
    DS>   This ham also sat at one end of the couch, and his son at the other,   
    DS> and they were talking to each other on the local wide aread coverage   
    DS> repeater, with HT's. I'm still trying to figure out what purpose that   
    DS> served. :P   
      
   Yeah, that does happen sometimes. ;)   
      
    TL> DS>  þ OLX 1.53 þ E-mail returned to sender...insufficient voltage.   
      
    TL>Maybe that was your problem? ;)   
      
    DS>   I guess I shouldn't have sent it barefoot, and cranked my email   
    DS> client up to 1.5 kw (hi hi). I went ahead and tried sending it from the   
    DS> BBS's email address...I hope that one works, or I'll have to try   
    DS> another one.   
      
   Guess propagation was down. :-)   
    DS> ---   
    DS>  þ OLX 1.53 þ Condoms should be used on every conceivable occasion.   
      
   Only when you don't want to conceive. :D   
      
      
   ... In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.   
   --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.49   
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