{"id":77,"date":"2005-06-17T23:17:52","date_gmt":"2005-06-18T04:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/?p=77"},"modified":"2005-06-18T15:23:32","modified_gmt":"2005-06-18T20:23:32","slug":"the-hamsexy-maibag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"The Hamsexy Maibag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time to once again open the Hamsexy mailbag:<\/p>\n<p>Our first letter is from <b>Peter N4LI<\/b> from Memphis. He writes:<\/p>\n<color =\"blue\"><b>OK, I have a sense of humor.<\/p>\n<p>I had never heard of Hamsexy until all the bashing on QRZ.  &#8216;Love it.<\/p>\n<p>I especially enjoy the REACT Geek photo.  So true, ain&#8217;t it.  I have used similar terminology in the past &#8212; my town is full of &#8220;WeatherGeeks,&#8221; people who believe that having a ham license and a pickup truck means they will save the world, and severely increases their sense of self-importance.  Tornado watches relieve the need for Viagra, if you know what I&#8217;m sayin&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s easy to tell a WeatherGeek.  He&#8217;s the guy with the skywarn logo on his car, QRZ page, and\/or QSL.  He also wears Skywarn logos on his person at any event where hams may attend.  Expect to find several antennas on his vee-hickle and maybe a CB, too.  10-4!<\/p>\n<p>OK, I have a quad-band radio, one antenna (most of the time), and a bunch of law books\/papers on the front seat.  Am I a LawGeek in Hamsexy lingo?<\/p>\n<p><\/b><\/color>\n<p>I think &#8220;LawSexy&#8221; wuould be appropriate, unless of course you like to pretend you are a cop. Not too many lawyer wannabees out there&#8230;. Paralegals, perhaps? our next letter is from <b>Don VA3XL,<\/b> who sends us this image from the &#8220;Ontario Hamfest&#8221; in Fergus, Ontario (somewhere north of Toronto out in the boonies):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/fergus2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nThe photo was taken at the Central Ontario Hamfest in Fergus.  It&#8217;s the Hamfest HQ mobile command post. <\/p>\n<p>It pegged the Hamsexy meter with the safety vests and the scooter. It&#8217;s hard to tell, but there is a green flashing whacker light on top of the trailer. <\/p>\n<p>Fergus is going down the tubes as well. Lots of empty space. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Thakns for you letters. Send all correspondence to <a  href=\"javascript:smae_decode('c3VibWlzc2lvbnNAaGFtc2V4eS5jb20=');\" >&#115;&#117;&#098;&#109;&#105;&#115;&#115;&#105;&#111;&#110;&#115;&#064;&#104;&#097;&#109;&#115;&#101;&#120;&#121;&#044;&#099;&#111;&#109;<\/a>, and we&#8217;ll be sure to post your letter on the site (positive OR negative)&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time to once again open the Hamsexy mailbag: Our first letter is from Peter N4LI from Memphis. He writes: OK, I have a sense of humor. I had never heard of Hamsexy until all the bashing on QRZ. &#8216;Love it. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/?p=77\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hamsexyness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}