Well. it gets more interesting if you are real rich!   
      
    EV> 10-21-14 16:16 Holger Granholm wrote to Ed Vance about Re: Biking   
      
    HG> Hi Ed,   
    EV> Howdy! Holger,   
    EV> -snip-   
    HG> One Q-signal that doesn't need a question mark is the QLF   
    HG> signal which is an unofficial one that is a question in itself,   
    HG> "Are you sending with your left foot".   
      
    EV> I am Left Handed and one time back in 1960 I placed the J-38 Key on the   
    EV> floor and made a QSO using my Left Foot.   
      
    Back in the 1960's plus when I was using machine language to compose code   
    to work with my W5WQN CW operations via my Heathkit H89 and also was using   
    a J-38 strapped to my right leg when I was driving to send CW - mobile I   
    had a real good friend, W4---/M, who was a fabulous mobile CW op. He could   
    whip the heck out of me on my J-38, even though I could hit close to 100WPM   
    receiving no problem.  I asked him, "How?"  He told me he was driving his   
    Greyhound Bus RV all over the US and it had a keyboard!  I was stunned!   
    I asked him, "How do you CW while driving?"  He told me his keyboard was   
    bolted on top of the steering wheel for the bus!   We went through several   
    more QSO's and then I noticed that every now and then there would be a   
    few short brief moments when he would go silent while sending to me!   
      
   I asked him, "Why do you quit sending every now and then?"  He told me that   
   when he had to turn off the highway on to the side road, the keyboard would   
   sometimes have to be rotated over more than one total twirl!  He could still   
   send CW on his keyboard even up perpendicular to the normal, but he could   
   never learn how to send CW with the keyboard upside down.  Sometime later he   
   vanished from 40 meter CW mobile.  I suspect I know why but I have never   
   snooped into that.   
      
    HG> If you can stay upright with one foot off the ground (floor)   
    HG> you do have the balance needed for biking. If not, stay off any   
    HG> two wheeled bikes.   
      
    EV> Thanks!, I will try that.   
    EV> My technique usually is to have the pedals Level, Sit on the seat and   
    EV> go, but that was probably 5 years ago that I rode a bike.   
      
    EV> I am going to try placing a Concrete Block next to my Backyard Fence,   
    EV> stand on it with the pedal on the other side of the bike UP and try   
    EV> starting as You described.   
      
    EV> If I fall towards the fence I won't fall far, and if I fall the other   
    EV> way I will have the missus to keep me from kissing Mother Earth.   
      
    EV> ... Honest, Occifer!  There's no blood in my alcohol content.   
      
   Yes, alcohol can really be a problem with fences in many ways!  Back in the   
   early 1970's when I was employed as an airplane pilot and technical grunt I   
   did know about fence this and that.  Remember the little poem?  'You're in the   
   army now, you're not behind the plow.  You'll never get rich with your tank in   
   the ditch, you're in the army now!'  I was singing the song to a friend who   
   was way up in the banking business at the time.  He asked me,"What's in your   
   tank?"  I didn't understand what he wanted.  He told me, "Alcohol. Mikey!"  I   
   told him I'd never heard that part in the song.  He told me he learned it very   
   personally!  One of the huge richest bank owners he knew used to throw huge   
   parties on Halloween and Christmas at his rural ranch.  Loaded up with   
   alcohol, so told me, this money master wound up having to go to the bathroom   
   badly!  So he wandered off over in the rural private area to his fence line.    
   And never came back!  The 'guests' went off to see what was going on.  He had   
   pulled his pants down and sat down on the wire to excrete!  Drunk as a skunk!    
   He had passed out and twirled off backwards over the fence!  Where they had to   
   extract him and whatever. My freind tolde me he guessed he was missing someone   
   as well, chortle!   
      
   Then this friend of mine told ne, Be sure to be careful how you are before you   
   get in a ditch near a fence, Mikey!  Have a missey to watch over you when you   
   get your rig in the ditch!"   
      
   Sorry, that would never happen, I've hated alcohol ever since my Dad tried to   
   get me to drink beer when I was three years of age on Guernsey Street in   
   College Station, Texas.  Never drink or had any interest in smoking after at a   
   couple years after that some of my boy neighbors tried to force me to smoke   
   grape vine over and over and I HATED it!   
      
      
   Mike N117C at 1:117/100   
      
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