Electronics Poetry: Ode to a New Rig |
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Each month for many decades, a page or two in each issue of QST presented a feature of odds and ends called "Strays," as in stray signals. That is where you could often find bits of poetry, anecdotes about some Ham's experience while operating, and news about amateur radio related happenings. The May 1933 QST included "Ode to a New Rig," by Mrs. W8ETH (whoever W8ETH was), of which title might have been inspired by Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn." Here are a few other electronics-themed poems: A Radioman's Nightmare, The Day Before Christmas, Sonnet of a Ham, Unpopular Electronics, Ode to a New Rig, Power Supply, More "Tower" to You, Requiem, Pre-Radio, What Is It?, Ravin Ode to a New Rig
All day long he sits to figure On what he'll have in his wireless jigger. He'll have to buy, much to his sorrow, He's getting so he hates to borrow. He'd like his parts all of the best - A little different from the rest Of homemade junk around the town That's every minute breaking down. In feverish glee he scans each ad And covers the pages of half a pad With a list of expensive this and that (I wonder - will I get an Easter hat?). A 203-A he's going to buy And a new transformer that'd knock your eye; Condensers and whatnot are forthcoming, too, This wonderful rig will be shiny and new. My only fond wish is that everything perks Or I'll put an axe in the whole blooming works! - Mrs. W8ETH
Posted May 30, 2022 |
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