|Forum|Articles|Hamvention I went to Hamvention on Friday. And I must say that many things come to mind when you are sitting in a tent waiting for the fucking rain to stop... There are a lot of people walking around in here with strings of light tubes or christmas lights or some other blinking decoration. This is not that odd for Hamvention. Whereas wearing christmas lights to the mall makes you a freak, wearing them to Hamvention makes you...well I guess it still makes you a freak. Anyway these are the type of lights you plug into an electrical outlet which means that somewhere under these guys jackets there is a burning hot inverter hooked into a largish battery pack. This may just be me but I think that if I were wearing this mojo and had just goten drenched with several gallons of water, I would turn the damm thing off maybe Even worse are the people girthed with radio equipment standing out in the rain holding a live wire, in the form of a radio handset, to the sides of their sculls. Now really what conversation is that inportant. This was the type of rainstorm with lighting. Now this may just be me but it seems to me the last thing you would want to be doing in a lighting storm is standing out in the rain with a three-foot flexible whip antenna attached to your head, that is connected to the previously stated radio hardware, that is in turn connected to the side of your skull by previously stated handset. I feel ill   Syntax Error/:|Forum|Articles|