user names?

[Fatheroffive]

To the ham radio operators, I just feel compelled to share K4DYI was my grandfather's... he passed in 1997 and served in WWII. You guys are a closeknit group and my grandfather was dedicated to the craft... I miss him a lot.

 

[230RN]

Ridgerunner665 confessed,

Ridgerunner...a term once used to describe those wily old mountain folks that were running moonshine all over the country.

I made a decent living doing that for a long time (same as my father, and his father before him)...and I'm not ashamed to admit it.

I have no idea where the 665 came from...

230RN taps foot, rolls eyes, drums fingers, and adds 1.

Terry, 231RN

 

[Sgt.Dusk]

well....this is my name (translated in english.)

 

[BridgeDr]

I sandblast and paint bridges...so kind of like a doctor for bridges.

 

[Treo]

Shouldn't you have ended that post "Your's trulyzm Johnny Dollar" ? Johnny

 

[hankdatank1362]

Hank The Tank - old HS football nickname, except it was pronounced "da" by my mostly African-American teammates. Only 6'4" 250lb white boy on the team.

1362... last 4 digits of my old phone number (like 10 years ago).

 

[tunnug]

On the old Frazier T.V. show there once was a dyslexic woman who yelled out "look out he's got a nug" my wife and I started calling my roscoe "nug" when I started hitting the gunboards figuring I'm a gun nut I went with tunnug

 

[Thin Black Line]

"Thin Black Line" --the roads I use to travel by convoy in Iraq. It came to
describe the width and color of the modern battlefield in the Iraqi countryside.
It may also mean the veil between the living and the dead, but I'll save my
long spiritual philosophy for some other forum.

Since I first used it I guess some now use the same term to describe African-
American police officers. I'm not A-A or a sworn police officer, but I salute
you guys, too.

 

[Walker007]

I was on an undercover training op. Unfortunately the busses were not running on schedule due to some local holiday so I had to hoof it for 7 miles back to Pittsburgh after pulling security for a meeting with an informant. When I got back our instructor started calling me Walker. The 007 is because I work in Intelligence.

 

[whiskeytangofoxtrot]

I worked Chemical Demil for the government through a contractor and this was the usual three words that came out of our mouths because there was always something going wrong.

FUBAR and SNAFU was normal since most of the guys there were prior or current military. *** just fit in.

 

[Monkybrainz]

well? i need not have to explain

 

[Rush]

Rush, the experience. Like adrenalin from skydiving. Or endorphins from exercise. Or dopamine from cigarettes. Whatever floats your boat.