{"id":663,"date":"2019-04-19T00:07:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T05:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rckara.org\/?p=663"},"modified":"2019-10-01T00:57:55","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T05:57:55","slug":"ham-radio-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rckara.org\/?p=663","title":{"rendered":"Ham radio joke"},"content":{"rendered":"

This comes to us courtesy of Nancy Tucker:<\/em><\/p>\n

During a recent trip my wife and I were on we drove around the back woods of East Texas. On one back road I saw a sign in front of a broken down shanty style house: “Talking Dog for Sale.” Well I needed a break so I stopped to see what the deal was. I went into the backyard and see a nice looking Labrador retriever sitting there.<\/p>\n

“You talk?” I ask.<\/p>\n

“Yep,” the Lab replies.<\/p>\n

Well after I got over the shock of hearing a dog talk, I asked “So, what’s your story?”<\/p>\n

“Ah, shucks, there ain’t much to tell. Is that a VUU screwdriver antenna on your truck out there?”<\/p>\n

“How did you know that,” I ask?<\/p>\n

The Lab looks up and says, “Well, I’m a ham radio operator. I got my Ticket when I was a young pup and in no time at all I had my 5 band DXCC in Phone and CW.<\/p>\n

The CIA heard about me and asked me to do some spy work for them. I would hang around the communications centers and with my keen hearing I could copy the transmissions. Because no one figured a dog would be eavesdropping, I was one of their most valuable spies for eight years.” Copying high speed CW all day really tired me out and I knew I wasn’t getting any younger.<\/p>\n

So, I decided to settle down. I retired from the CIA (8 dog years is 56 CIA years) and joined a ham radio club. In fact I won first place in the Oklahoma QSO Party two years in a row. Then I sired a mess of puppies and got away from Ham Radio for a while. I sure miss my radio. Why don’t you buy me and I’ll be your CW operator in the Texas QSO Party?<\/p>\n

I said “let me see what I can do.”  I went back in and ask the owner what he wants for the dog.<\/p>\n

“Ten dollars,” the guy says.<\/p>\n

“Ten dollars? This dog is amazing! Why on earth are you selling him so cheap?”<\/p>\n

“Because he’s a liar. He never did any of that stuff. He’s just a No-Code Technician.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This comes to us courtesy of Nancy Tucker: During a recent trip my wife and I were on we drove around the back woods of East Texas. On one back road I saw a sign in front of a broken down shanty style house: “Talking Dog for Sale.” Well I needed a break so I stopped to see what the deal was. I went into the backyard and see a nice looking Labrador retriever sitting there. “You talk?” I ask….<\/p>\n

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