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Buck - k4ia

Re: Man Hospitalized - related incident

In a related incident, another ham-radio enthusiast, Hezekiah Bambershoot,
of Ft Jackson, was arrested at police headquarters for disorderly conduct
and assaulting a police officer. Bambershoot initially came to
headquarters reporting he had been victimized buying a radio from a mysterious
Californian named Ellie Craft.

Ms Craft allegedly took advantage of Bambershoot by claiming to have
down-conversion which he mistook for a syndrome of the same name. Bambershoot
was happy with his purchase until his friends told him how foolish he had
been.

According to Police spokesman, Ken Wood, "The poor man was distraught and
raving about roofing filters. What the heck are they?" The arrest report
filed by fellow-ham and officer, Ike Com, listed Bambershoot's original
complaint as "radio mushiness" but notes, "I told him all my radios sound
mushy but he was upset he couldn't hear it on his. When we tried to calm him
down he became unruly."

Su Yae, an EMT called to the scene, defended Bambershoot saying, "When I
got there he was on the floor repeating 'A, G, C, Slope, Pre and A T T' over
and over. He was babbling. They claimed he was clicking his heels but I
didn't hear anything. The poor man was just frustrated because his
purchase had so many faults he couldn't find. I feel sorry for him."

Bambershoot is being held on $10,000 bond. Police are still searching for
the elusive Ellie Craft.

Buck
k4ia

In a message dated 2/9/2010 6:22:54 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[hidden email] writes:
MAN HOSPITALIZED WITH ANXIETY OVER HAM RADIO

Southland County Morning News

Southland -- A ham radio enthusiast was admitted to County Hospital today
suffering from anxiety over what he perceived as serious problems with his
new radio, authorities reported Tuesday.

Irv Stumpo, 55, of East Pharsalia, checked into the emergency room "in
distress," according to the nurse on watch just before midnight Tuesday. "He
was perspiring profusely and moaning over and over, 'My K-3 is no good, no
good'," said Paula Stevens, a nurse at County. "He had enormous headphones
clamped tightly on his head which we had a ton of difficulty removing, and
he was also wearing ear buds," she said. "Isn't that strange? He was half
incoherent but kept mumbling something about dynamic range and audio
artifacts. I have no idea what that means."

Randy LaHood, a fifteen year emergency room veteran, said that during an
examination Mr. Stumpo went into considerable technical detail about a radio
he had recently purchased from Elecraft, a company that makes high-end ham
radios. "He began by explaining that his radio had 'noisy receiver' and
'mushy signals'," explained Dr. LaHood. "From what I could gather, he had
just spent a lot of money on a radio and hadn't actually noticed any of these
problems himself, but others in a internet group kept putting the ideas
into his head," he said. Over a course of weeks, Stumpo became distraught over
various imperfections in what Dr. LaHood said was a classic case of the
power of suggestion.

The hospital records also said that Stumpo drew mathematical figures he
labeled "AGC slope", and filled four pages by writing "AGC off", "Ear
Isolation" and "K3" repeatedly. Hospital officials could not explain the cryptic
scribblings.

Dr. LaHood said that Stumpo repeated the phrase "mushy AGC" for at least
four hours while he waited for treatment. Other patients who were in the
waiting room at the time moved to the other side of the room for fear he might
endanger them. J. B. Archer was one of those in the waiting room at the
time who had brought in his twelve-year-old son with a basketball injury.
"Good ol' boy was pretty upset, I just told him it would be alright, but he
wouldn't let up with 'I can't pick out the pileups'. I thought he had been
involved in a big accident on the highway. Then he said other things like
'the impedance of my headphones' and 'ride the R. F. gain'. Then he started
with 'diversity problem' and I thought maybe he was having trouble with
racial relations. He was in terrible shape, I'll tell you that."

Rick Culver, president of a local ham radio club, told the Morning News in
a telephone interview, "A lot of these guys spend five or ten thousand
dollars on a radio they think is going to be absolutely perfect in every
conceiveable way. When it's not, they go into a panic buying lots of other
accessories which promise to fix the issue they think they're having. This is
followed by a deep buyer's remorse." He went on to recount a recent case which
epitomized this effect. "We had one guy who had a radio that put out 95
watts instead of 100. He went berserk and ended up smashing his radio with a
baseball bat. Not everyone gets that violent, but he never would have
worried about it if it hadn't been for an internet forum that drummed it into
his head twenty four seven that his radio was broken."

Hospital officials said that Stumpo was treated with sedatives and is
being kept for observation.
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Ken Chandler

Re: Man Hospitalized - related incident

I suppose victim was yaesu'ed into buying it off ms ellie craft...hi

Ken..G0ORH

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On 10 Feb 2010, at 11:16, [hidden email] wrote:

> In a related incident, another ham-radio enthusiast, Hezekiah
> Bambershoot,
> of Ft Jackson, was arrested at police headquarters for disorderly
> conduct
> and assaulting a police officer. Bambershoot initially came to
> headquarters reporting he had been victimized buying a radio from a
> mysterious
> Californian named Ellie Craft.
>
> Ms Craft allegedly took advantage of Bambershoot by claiming to have
> down-conversion which he mistook for a syndrome of the same name.
> Bambershoot
> was happy with his purchase until his friends told him how foolish
> he had
> been.
>
> According to Police spokesman, Ken Wood, "The poor man was
> distraught and
> raving about roofing filters. What the heck are they?" The arrest
> report
> filed by fellow-ham and officer, Ike Com, listed Bambershoot's
> original
> complaint as "radio mushiness" but notes, "I told him all my radios
> sound
> mushy but he was upset he couldn't hear it on his. When we tried
> to calm him
> down he became unruly."
>
> Su Yae, an EMT called to the scene, defended Bambershoot saying,
> "When I
> got there he was on the floor repeating 'A, G, C, Slope, Pre and A
> T T' over
> and over. He was babbling. They claimed he was clicking his heels
> but I
> didn't hear anything. The poor man was just frustrated because his
> purchase had so many faults he couldn't find. I feel sorry for him."
>
> Bambershoot is being held on $10,000 bond. Police are still
> searching for
> the elusive Ellie Craft.
>
> Buck
> k4ia
>
> In a message dated 2/9/2010 6:22:54 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> [hidden email] writes:
> MAN HOSPITALIZED WITH ANXIETY OVER HAM RADIO
>
> Southland County Morning News
>
> Southland -- A ham radio enthusiast was admitted to County Hospital
> today
> suffering from anxiety over what he perceived as serious problems
> with his
> new radio, authorities reported Tuesday.
>
> Irv Stumpo, 55, of East Pharsalia, checked into the emergency room
> "in
> distress," according to the nurse on watch just before midnight
> Tuesday. "He
> was perspiring profusely and moaning over and over, 'My K-3 is no
> good, no
> good'," said Paula Stevens, a nurse at County. "He had enormous
> headphones
> clamped tightly on his head which we had a ton of difficulty
> removing, and
> he was also wearing ear buds," she said. "Isn't that strange? He
> was half
> incoherent but kept mumbling something about dynamic range and audio
> artifacts. I have no idea what that means."
>
> Randy LaHood, a fifteen year emergency room veteran, said that
> during an
> examination Mr. Stumpo went into considerable technical detail
> about a radio
> he had recently purchased from Elecraft, a company that makes high-
> end ham
> radios. "He began by explaining that his radio had 'noisy receiver'
> and
> 'mushy signals'," explained Dr. LaHood. "From what I could gather,
> he had
> just spent a lot of money on a radio and hadn't actually noticed
> any of these
> problems himself, but others in a internet group kept putting the
> ideas
> into his head," he said. Over a course of weeks, Stumpo became
> distraught over
> various imperfections in what Dr. LaHood said was a classic case of
> the
> power of suggestion.
>
> The hospital records also said that Stumpo drew mathematical
> figures he
> labeled "AGC slope", and filled four pages by writing "AGC off", "Ear
> Isolation" and "K3" repeatedly. Hospital officials could not
> explain the cryptic
> scribblings.
>
> Dr. LaHood said that Stumpo repeated the phrase "mushy AGC" for at
> least
> four hours while he waited for treatment. Other patients who were
> in the
> waiting room at the time moved to the other side of the room for
> fear he might
> endanger them. J. B. Archer was one of those in the waiting room at
> the
> time who had brought in his twelve-year-old son with a basketball
> injury.
> "Good ol' boy was pretty upset, I just told him it would be
> alright, but he
> wouldn't let up with 'I can't pick out the pileups'. I thought he
> had been
> involved in a big accident on the highway. Then he said other
> things like
> 'the impedance of my headphones' and 'ride the R. F. gain'. Then he
> started
> with 'diversity problem' and I thought maybe he was having trouble
> with
> racial relations. He was in terrible shape, I'll tell you that."
>
> Rick Culver, president of a local ham radio club, told the Morning
> News in
> a telephone interview, "A lot of these guys spend five or ten thousand
> dollars on a radio they think is going to be absolutely perfect in
> every
> conceiveable way. When it's not, they go into a panic buying lots of
> other
> accessories which promise to fix the issue they think they're
> having. This is
> followed by a deep buyer's remorse." He went on to recount a recent
> case which
> epitomized this effect. "We had one guy who had a radio that put out
> 95
> watts instead of 100. He went berserk and ended up smashing his
> radio with a
> baseball bat. Not everyone gets that violent, but he never would have
> worried about it if it hadn't been for an internet forum that
> drummed it into
> his head twenty four seven that his radio was broken."
>
> Hospital officials said that Stumpo was treated with sedatives and is
> being kept for observation.
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Bob Naumann W5OV

Shift control quirk?

I have noticed that my shift control does not always work. Sometimes I turn
it, it does nothing. Then other times it changes the shift as I would
expect.

Is this normal or?

In contrast, the width control always works correctly when I turn it, so
while this is not a big deal, it just seems a little "quirky".

Bob W5OV

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M0XDF

Re: Shift control quirk?

Not normal, well I haven't experienced that
73 de M0XDF, K3 #174
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On 10 Feb 2010, at 13:26, Bob Naumann wrote:

> I have noticed that my shift control does not always work. Sometimes I turn
> it, it does nothing. Then other times it changes the shift as I would
> expect.
>
> Is this normal or?
>
> In contrast, the width control always works correctly when I turn it, so
> while this is not a big deal, it just seems a little "quirky".
>
> Bob W5OV

Joe Planisky

Re: Shift control quirk?

In reply to this post by Bob Naumann W5OV

Hi Bob,

The shift control doesn't do anything when the DUAL PB filter is on.
(DUAL PB is available in CW, AFSK-A, and FSK-D modes.) If it's
happening when DUAL PB is not on, then I don't think it's normal.

73
--
Joe KB8AP

On Feb 10, 2010, at 5:26 AM, Bob Naumann wrote:

> I have noticed that my shift control does not always work. Sometimes
> I turn
> it, it does nothing. Then other times it changes the shift as I would
> expect.
>
> Is this normal or?
>
> In contrast, the width control always works correctly when I turn
> it, so
> while this is not a big deal, it just seems a little "quirky".
>
> Bob W5OV
>
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Bob Naumann W5OV

Re: Shift control quirk?

Joe,

No - this is on CW with dual PB *NOT* active. I think it behaves the same
way on SSB too.

It acts as if the knob is slipping, but it's not. Sometimes I can turn,
turn, turn and nothing happens - VFO B display shows VFO B frequency, and
then I can pause, turn it again, and the VFO B display shows the FC digits
and the bandwidth changes. Very strange. Sometimes, it may start adjusting
properly, and then I can turn, turn, turn, and nothing happens.

Typically, I don't mess with this control so it has not been a bother, but
since I have gotten my 43' vertical working on 160 with AD5X's matching
system (recent 2-part article in QST) I've been listening more intently and
have been noticing this quirk more.

W5OV

P.S. Logged TX4T and JA7NI this morning for two new countries on top band
for me. Yes, I'm a top-band novice, although I have things like 3Y5X
confirmed on 160 - go figure.

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Planisky [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 8:29 AM
To: Bob Naumann
Cc: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Shift control quirk?

Hi Bob,

The shift control doesn't do anything when the DUAL PB filter is on.
(DUAL PB is available in CW, AFSK-A, and FSK-D modes.) If it's
happening when DUAL PB is not on, then I don't think it's normal.

73
--
Joe KB8AP

On Feb 10, 2010, at 5:26 AM, Bob Naumann wrote:

N5GE

Re: Man Hospitalized - related incident

In reply to this post by Buck - k4ia

On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:16:02 EST, [hidden email] wrote:

Enough. This is not an audition reflector for comedians.

Please take it off line.

Thanks,

Tom, N5GE

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>In a related incident, another ham-radio enthusiast, Hezekiah Bambershoot,
>of Ft Jackson, was arrested at police headquarters for disorderly conduct
>and assaulting a police officer. Bambershoot initially came to
>headquarters reporting he had been victimized buying a radio from a mysterious
>Californian named Ellie Craft.
>
>Ms Craft allegedly took advantage of Bambershoot by claiming to have
>down-conversion which he mistook for a syndrome of the same name. Bambershoot
>was happy with his purchase until his friends told him how foolish he had
>been.
>
>According to Police spokesman, Ken Wood, "The poor man was distraught and
>raving about roofing filters. What the heck are they?" The arrest report
>filed by fellow-ham and officer, Ike Com, listed Bambershoot's original
>complaint as "radio mushiness" but notes, "I told him all my radios sound
>mushy but he was upset he couldn't hear it on his. When we tried to calm him
>down he became unruly."
>
>Su Yae, an EMT called to the scene, defended Bambershoot saying, "When I
>got there he was on the floor repeating 'A, G, C, Slope, Pre and A T T' over
>and over. He was babbling. They claimed he was clicking his heels but I
>didn't hear anything. The poor man was just frustrated because his
>purchase had so many faults he couldn't find. I feel sorry for him."
>
>Bambershoot is being held on $10,000 bond. Police are still searching for
>the elusive Ellie Craft.
>
>Buck
>k4ia
>
>In a message dated 2/9/2010 6:22:54 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>[hidden email] writes:
>MAN HOSPITALIZED WITH ANXIETY OVER HAM RADIO
>
>Southland County Morning News
>
>Southland -- A ham radio enthusiast was admitted to County Hospital today
>suffering from anxiety over what he perceived as serious problems with his
>new radio, authorities reported Tuesday.
>
>Irv Stumpo, 55, of East Pharsalia, checked into the emergency room "in
>distress," according to the nurse on watch just before midnight Tuesday. "He
>was perspiring profusely and moaning over and over, 'My K-3 is no good, no
>good'," said Paula Stevens, a nurse at County. "He had enormous headphones
>clamped tightly on his head which we had a ton of difficulty removing, and
>he was also wearing ear buds," she said. "Isn't that strange? He was half
>incoherent but kept mumbling something about dynamic range and audio
>artifacts. I have no idea what that means."
>
>Randy LaHood, a fifteen year emergency room veteran, said that during an
>examination Mr. Stumpo went into considerable technical detail about a radio
>he had recently purchased from Elecraft, a company that makes high-end ham
>radios. "He began by explaining that his radio had 'noisy receiver' and
>'mushy signals'," explained Dr. LaHood. "From what I could gather, he had
>just spent a lot of money on a radio and hadn't actually noticed any of these
>problems himself, but others in a internet group kept putting the ideas
>into his head," he said. Over a course of weeks, Stumpo became distraught over
>various imperfections in what Dr. LaHood said was a classic case of the
>power of suggestion.
>
>The hospital records also said that Stumpo drew mathematical figures he
>labeled "AGC slope", and filled four pages by writing "AGC off", "Ear
>Isolation" and "K3" repeatedly. Hospital officials could not explain the cryptic
>scribblings.
>
>Dr. LaHood said that Stumpo repeated the phrase "mushy AGC" for at least
>four hours while he waited for treatment. Other patients who were in the
>waiting room at the time moved to the other side of the room for fear he might
>endanger them. J. B. Archer was one of those in the waiting room at the
>time who had brought in his twelve-year-old son with a basketball injury.
>"Good ol' boy was pretty upset, I just told him it would be alright, but he
>wouldn't let up with 'I can't pick out the pileups'. I thought he had been
>involved in a big accident on the highway. Then he said other things like
>'the impedance of my headphones' and 'ride the R. F. gain'. Then he started
>with 'diversity problem' and I thought maybe he was having trouble with
>racial relations. He was in terrible shape, I'll tell you that."
>
>Rick Culver, president of a local ham radio club, told the Morning News in
>a telephone interview, "A lot of these guys spend five or ten thousand
>dollars on a radio they think is going to be absolutely perfect in every
>conceiveable way. When it's not, they go into a panic buying lots of other
>accessories which promise to fix the issue they think they're having. This is
>followed by a deep buyer's remorse." He went on to recount a recent case which
> epitomized this effect. "We had one guy who had a radio that put out 95
>watts instead of 100. He went berserk and ended up smashing his radio with a
>baseball bat. Not everyone gets that violent, but he never would have
>worried about it if it hadn't been for an internet forum that drummed it into
>his head twenty four seven that his radio was broken."
>
>Hospital officials said that Stumpo was treated with sedatives and is
>being kept for observation.
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Bob Garrett

Re: Man Hospitalized - related incident

Hmmm, no humor in life? I do my best to inject as much humor and laughs in
to every day. I thought he quip was histerical in light of the protracted
discussion about AGC etc. Just one mans opinion. 73, Bob K3UL

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Ken Alexander-2

Re: Man Hospitalized - related incident

I vote for a little more humour.

I also re-cast my vote in favour of the gentlemen's agreement I thought we had whereby everyone was going to preface their Subject with K3, K2, etc., as applicable.

That would permit my K3 e-mail filter to send those messages to my trash bin. Then you guys could go on ad nauseum (actually, you left ad nauseum behind a few days ago) about AGC settings, or get your calipers out again and obsess about the spacing of buttons on your K3's front panel! Geesh!

73 - Ken

--- On Wed, 2/10/10, Bob Garrett <[hidden email]> wrote:

> From: Bob Garrett <[hidden email]>
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Man Hospitalized - related incident
> To: [hidden email], [hidden email]
> Date: Wednesday, February 10, 2010, 7:08 PM
> Hmmm, no humor in life? I do my
> best to inject as much humor and laughs in
> to every day. I thought he quip was histerical in
> light of the protracted
> discussion about AGC etc. Just one mans
> opinion. 73, Bob K3UL
>
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N5GE

Re: Man Hospitalized - related incident

On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:26:28 -0800 (PST), Ken Alexander
<[hidden email]> wrote:

C'mon, Ken. They're just fondling each other's perceived knowledge of
all things having to do with radio design, ergonomics, audio, contest
operation, DXing, and electronic theory. What's the harm in that?

Tom, N5GE

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>I vote for a little more humour.
>
>I also re-cast my vote in favour of the gentlemen's agreement I thought we had whereby everyone was going to preface their Subject with K3, K2, etc., as applicable.
>
>That would permit my K3 e-mail filter to send those messages to my trash bin. Then you guys could go on ad nauseum (actually, you left ad nauseum behind a few days ago) about AGC settings, or get your calipers out again and obsess about the spacing of buttons on your K3's front panel! Geesh!
>
>73 - Ken
>
>
>
>--- On Wed, 2/10/10, Bob Garrett <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>> From: Bob Garrett <[hidden email]>
>> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Man Hospitalized - related incident
>> To: [hidden email], [hidden email]
>> Date: Wednesday, February 10, 2010, 7:08 PM
>> Hmmm, no humor in life? I do my
>> best to inject as much humor and laughs in
>> to every day. I thought he quip was histerical in
>> light of the protracted
>> discussion about AGC etc. Just one mans
>> opinion. 73, Bob K3UL
>>
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Ken Alexander-2

Re: Man Hospitalized - related incident

Yeesh! When you put it that way I guess we should be glad it's taking place by e-mail!!

73 - Ken, VE3HLS

> C'mon, Ken. They're just fondling each other's perceived
> knowledge of
> all things having to do with radio design, ergonomics,
> audio, contest
> operation, DXing, and electronic theory. What's the harm in
> that?
>
> Tom, N5GE
>
> [hidden email]
> K3 #806 with SUB RX, K3 #1055, PR6,
> XV144, XV432, KRC2,
> W1, 2 W2's and other small kits
>
> 1 K144XV on order
>
> http://www.n5ge.com
> http://www.swotrc.net
>
> >I vote for a little more humour.
> >
> >I also re-cast my vote in favour of the gentlemen's
> agreement I thought we had whereby everyone was going to
> preface their Subject with K3, K2, etc., as applicable.
> >
> >That would permit my K3 e-mail filter to send those
> messages to my trash bin. Then you guys could go on ad
> nauseum (actually, you left ad nauseum behind a few days
> ago) about AGC settings, or get your calipers out again and
> obsess about the spacing of buttons on your K3's front
> panel! Geesh!
> >
> >73 - Ken
> >
> >
> >
> >--- On Wed, 2/10/10, Bob Garrett <[hidden email]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> From: Bob Garrett <[hidden email]>
> >> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Man Hospitalized - related
> incident
> >> To: [hidden email], [hidden email]
> >> Date: Wednesday, February 10, 2010, 7:08 PM
> >> Hmmm, no humor in life? I do my
> >> best to inject as much humor and laughs in
> >> to every day. I thought he quip was histerical
> in
> >> light of the protracted
> >> discussion about AGC etc. Just one mans
> >> opinion. 73, Bob K3UL
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Sverre Holm (LA3ZA)

Re: Shift control quirk?

In reply to this post by Bob Naumann W5OV

My shift control knob was also slipping initially when my K3 was new. It was so bad that Elecraft sent me a replacement. But while waiting for the shipment I noticed that pushing the control many times seemed to help. After some pushes, I don't know how many, maybe 10-20, it was OK. Now I have had the K3 for more than half a year without any shift control problems and I have so far had no use for the replacement control.

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Philippe Trottet

Re: Man Hospitalized - related incident

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Great !!!
We will see soon a 3D-SP movie picture scenario Hi !
73's
Philippe A65BI
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>>> <[hidden email]> 10-02-2010 15:16 >>>
In a related incident, another ham-radio enthusiast, Hezekiah Bambershoot,
of Ft Jackson, was arrested at police headquarters for disorderly conduct
and assaulting a police officer. Bambershoot initially came to
headquarters reporting he had been victimized buying a radio from a mysterious
Californian named Ellie Craft.

Ms Craft allegedly took advantage of Bambershoot by claiming to have
down-conversion which he mistook for a syndrome of the same name. Bambershoot
was happy with his purchase until his friends told him how foolish he had
been.

According to Police spokesman, Ken Wood, "The poor man was distraught and
raving about roofing filters. What the heck are they?" The arrest report
filed by fellow-ham and officer, Ike Com, listed Bambershoot's original
complaint as "radio mushiness" but notes, "I told him all my radios sound
mushy but he was upset he couldn't hear it on his. When we tried to calm him
down he became unruly."

Su Yae, an EMT called to the scene, defended Bambershoot saying, "When I
got there he was on the floor repeating 'A, G, C, Slope, Pre and A T T' over
and over. He was babbling. They claimed he was clicking his heels but I
didn't hear anything. The poor man was just frustrated because his
purchase had so many faults he couldn't find. I feel sorry for him."

Bambershoot is being held on $10,000 bond. Police are still searching for
the elusive Ellie Craft.

Buck
k4ia

In a message dated 2/9/2010 6:22:54 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[hidden email] writes:
MAN HOSPITALIZED WITH ANXIETY OVER HAM RADIO

Southland County Morning News

Southland -- A ham radio enthusiast was admitted to County Hospital today
suffering from anxiety over what he perceived as serious problems with his
new radio, authorities reported Tuesday.

Irv Stumpo, 55, of East Pharsalia, checked into the emergency room "in
distress," according to the nurse on watch just before midnight Tuesday. "He
was perspiring profusely and moaning over and over, 'My K-3 is no good, no
good'," said Paula Stevens, a nurse at County. "He had enormous headphones
clamped tightly on his head which we had a ton of difficulty removing, and
he was also wearing ear buds," she said. "Isn't that strange? He was half
incoherent but kept mumbling something about dynamic range and audio
artifacts. I have no idea what that means."

Randy LaHood, a fifteen year emergency room veteran, said that during an
examination Mr. Stumpo went into considerable technical detail about a radio
he had recently purchased from Elecraft, a company that makes high-end ham
radios. "He began by explaining that his radio had 'noisy receiver' and
'mushy signals'," explained Dr. LaHood. "From what I could gather, he had
just spent a lot of money on a radio and hadn't actually noticed any of these
problems himself, but others in a internet group kept putting the ideas
into his head," he said. Over a course of weeks, Stumpo became distraught over
various imperfections in what Dr. LaHood said was a classic case of the
power of suggestion.

The hospital records also said that Stumpo drew mathematical figures he
labeled "AGC slope", and filled four pages by writing "AGC off", "Ear
Isolation" and "K3" repeatedly. Hospital officials could not explain the cryptic
scribblings.

Dr. LaHood said that Stumpo repeated the phrase "mushy AGC" for at least
four hours while he waited for treatment. Other patients who were in the
waiting room at the time moved to the other side of the room for fear he might
endanger them. J. B. Archer was one of those in the waiting room at the
time who had brought in his twelve-year-old son with a basketball injury.
"Good ol' boy was pretty upset, I just told him it would be alright, but he
wouldn't let up with 'I can't pick out the pileups'. I thought he had been
involved in a big accident on the highway. Then he said other things like
'the impedance of my headphones' and 'ride the R. F. gain'. Then he started
with 'diversity problem' and I thought maybe he was having trouble with
racial relations. He was in terrible shape, I'll tell you that."

Rick Culver, president of a local ham radio club, told the Morning News in
a telephone interview, "A lot of these guys spend five or ten thousand
dollars on a radio they think is going to be absolutely perfect in every
conceiveable way. When it's not, they go into a panic buying lots of other
accessories which promise to fix the issue they think they're having. This is
followed by a deep buyer's remorse." He went on to recount a recent case which
epitomized this effect. "We had one guy who had a radio that put out 95
watts instead of 100. He went berserk and ended up smashing his radio with a
baseball bat. Not everyone gets that violent, but he never would have
worried about it if it hadn't been for an internet forum that drummed it into
his head twenty four seven that his radio was broken."

Hospital officials said that Stumpo was treated with sedatives and is
being kept for observation.
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Re: Man Hospitalized - related incident

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Some relaxation time in this world of brutes have never harmed a person. It's a hobby first !
Cheers
Philippe A65BI
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>>> Radio Amateur N5GE <[hidden email]> 10-02-2010 19:26 >>>
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:16:02 EST, [hidden email] wrote:

Enough. This is not an audition reflector for comedians.

Please take it off line.

Thanks,

Tom, N5GE

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