Heard On Eighty Metres...

Forty years on, your scribe still takes pleasure from a daily trawl from the DX'ers at the top of the band down to the key-bashers toward the bottom. The things he hears:

...can't get out to give you a reading from the rain guage. It's too wet...

...you are five and nine plus. Real arm-chair copy. Great audio. Did not catch the callsign...

...aerials? The perfect garden for me would be 1 foot wide by 132 feet long...

...the rig is a Kenwood 570. That's an Icom 570...

...G8 is a novice call, isn't it...

...I call it a quad because it's a loop with three sides...

...I've got two children and seven koi carp...

...getting QRM from the dog...

...just because I asked for breakers does not mean you can come in...