ham radio?

From: Corda Albert J DLVA <CordaAJ_at_nswc.navy.mil>
Date: Thu Feb 17 15:01:16 2000

Wouff-Hong (sp?) Boy, that's an obscure reference. When I was
in high-school, (back in the 70's) I picked up a couple of big
boxes of QST magazines at a ham auction. Most of 'em were from
the 1940's and 50's, but they were _very_ interesting reading,
especially if you were into tinkering with old world-war II
receivers (like the ARC-5 series...) I ran across a number of
articles that mentioned the Wouff-Hong. From what I can remember,
it was a wierdly-shaped piece of wood with a couple of rusty bits
of metal hanging from it (probably was a fragment of an old cart
hitch or something along those lines) From what I can remember,
someone at ARRL headquarters found this item lying around somewhere
in a storage area, and hung it on the wall just for grins. Nobody
knew what it actually was, but it became kind of a joke to threaten
to use it on someone as a punishment instrument if they did something
against the ham ethic. I haven't heard a reference to it since
high-school reading foray into the ham-past. (until now, that is :-)

-al- (KD4TTQ)
-acorda_at_geocities.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Wilson [mailto:wilson_at_dbit.dbit.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 10:11 PM
> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: ham radio?
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 06:49:55PM -0600, jeff.kaneko_at_juno.com wrote:
> > I think someone hit him with the Wouff-hong.
>
> Geez, it's been waaaay too long, what's that again? And I forget what
> a Wollongong (sp?) is too...
>
> John Wilson KC1P (formerly KA1BNJ from Sep '78 -- Bad News John!)
> D Bit
>
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