Ham Radio Music Video

[Jeffhs]

Just saw the video. Nice takeoff on 1984's "Ghostbusters" movie and the song by the same name.

I never experienced a DX pileup in all my nearly 40 years in this hobby, as I was never a contester when I had my 100-watt station and 70' all-band dipole at my former home in suburban Cleveland...no, wait a minute. I did wind up trying to break one about two years ago, when I was trying to work a special-event station in Hartford, Connecticut. I was operating from my apartment here in extreme norheast Ohio and using a haywire setup (cannot use outdoor antennas here due to lease restrictions). The callsign of the special-event station was NU1AW, and I almost broke the pileup with my 100 watt Icom IC-725 and indoor antenna -- but didn't. (As a buddy of mine, who is not a ham, says, 'almost' only counts in horseshoes and tiddly winks.) Just too many hams trying to work the station at one time. The station was probably on the air to commemorate something, like a milestone for W1AW in Newington or some such, as it wasn't on the air that long, only a weekend or so.

I'm almost tempted to call that phone number (555-2368) shown near the end of the video, just to see whether it is actually connected to anything. Like most numbers with a 555- prefix, however, I think this one will do little more than connect me to the telephone company's computer system or, in my case (my telephone service is with Time Warner Cable), I may just get a recording stating that the number I reached is no longer in service, or that the call cannot be completed as dialed.

73,