Re: Other \"unusual\" interests?
Hi all,
When Im not here I have some 'odd hobbies' that make high quality lights look normal.
I very slowly collect old Enfield's. Big .303 Brit guns.
As a side effect of the Ham Radio stuff, I used to fix and build repeaters. Strange way to spend a lot of hours.
Did more than a little mobile radio direction finding.
Surprised four idiots who were annoying the above ham radio clubs. Three I blackmailed into behaving, and number four was a psycho.
This guy managed to annoy the ham radio community of New York, New Jersey, and Conn.
This psycho managed to kill him self some years later in a light plane crash. I wrote an informal obit about this looser called "Puting the fun in Funeral".
Back home I had a 20mW pirate radio station running out of my truck. It played music that I liked. It has a range of about 2 blocks.
Then some friends called me to say that the FCC was looking for a pirate station in the Northern Virginia area. I shut down and went looking.
With about two hours of casual effort (using a pocket scanner and the truck radio) I isolate this guy to a block in S. Herndon. Three weeks later the FCC busts this guy. Seems he was playing spanish religus music in the evenings and weekends. Off frequency and with 100 watts.
Here I have what is the only 'approved' pirate radio station in Iraq. It's a 1 watt stereo signal for the troopers. It's called WTFO. They seem to like it. I got media from friends, gun rights board dudes, and the troopers them selves. It's a strange mix of Zydaco, rap, classic rock, and Manhime steamroller. Got some old time raido in there, Ask Dr. Science, and some movie quotes. More to come.
I like to fix electronic stuff. Most times I win. Did a lot of old CB sets. I have a old Royce Im fond of. Rebuilt an old CB LPA so I can use it with the 10 ham set. New relays, TR transistor, that kind of thing.
Also find things to fix. Got my portable TV when someone left it in front of the dumpster. Seems when Koreans make cheap electronics, they use a glue to hold parts and wires in place. After a few years, this glue trashes the metal in transistor leads. I fixed this tv for about 20 min of effort and 30 cents in parts. Done that many times for friends and neighbors.
I teach other tech types about service tricks picked up over the years.
I read a lot of strange 'true crime' stuff.
My favorite bathroom book is "Blood letters and bad men" by J Robert Nash. It's the size of a phone book. In it he has little 'bios's of famous and not so famous criminals.
Many of the articles have last words or deeds of those about to be executed. You can say I have an "Un natural interest in unnatural ends". Geting electrocuted by the State of New York counts as an Unnatural end. Look up a guy by the name "Two Gun Crowly". Or another sick pup by the name of Albert Fish. Notice how nobody get's hanged these days for being a "Highway Man"?
Each August 6th I remember the first poor sap Wiliam Kimler, the first guy sentenced under New York's then brand new electrical execution law. It was a botch.
Lots of strange anti social hobbies.
Like annoying religous people who try and convert me.
They are simply not prepared to deal with a New York trained smart *** with poor attitude. It's fun to make them run away, fast.
I taunt people who send me these 'Nigerian' scam internet letters. I let them know about my personal code of ethics, and I can't accecpt wealth I did not earn. This drives them crazy. Sometimes I quote Kurt Vonagut at them.
The mind is a nasty thing, perhaps I will take it out and let it oxidize.
What more could you want to know?
Keep it warm
Jack Crow in Iraq
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