The Perverted V Antenna (Part 1) Or … The Anticlimactic Adventures of Every Woman’s Sweetheart

Returning to the ham bands after a four-decade absence, N2EWS (“Every Woman’s Sweetheart”) shares his adventures in getting back on the air without attracting the attention of his homeowners’ association. This is part one of three…

NICHOLAS PETRELEY

Picture a TV show, set in the 1960s. It opens with a slinky femme fatale dispatching rogues with expert Kung Fu. She grabs their suspicious-looking package, tosses it into the passenger seat of a 350 GT Lamborghini, leaps in, and speeds away. She pulls up at a toll booth. An old man in a soiled hoodie, cigarette dangling from his lips, grumbles, “50 cents.” She hands him a couple of quarters and steps on the gas. Cue the theme music as the voiceover announces, “The Adventures of Ralph J. Spumoni: Toll Collector.” My life is like that lately. I’ve been living one anticlimactic moment after another since recently passing the exam to get licensed again. My Advanced Class license expired some 30 years ago, so I had to start fresh…

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CQ Amateur Radio (Digital) - 1 Issue, January 2023

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