How to Pick Up Chicks with Ham Radio

[@Chasing_The_Dream]

There is an antenna size joke in here, but I don't need another social media ban.

[@RobMacKendrick]

Hey, they don't call it a longwire FER nuthin', QSL?

[@jaspatters1]

My wife said she had to watch it. Its all true, she even got her ticket after we got married. Love it, glad you are back!

[@QRPSchool]

You made an excellent choice in spouses! :-) Cliff

[@gary6212]

This is so true! For a while I was doing POTA in drag, but now that isn't even effective...

[@gsansoucie]

I have to now take the necessary precautions to ensure my wife never sees this video, she doesn’t understand my real motivation for portable operations outdoors. She thinks I’m heading to the beach for salt water propagation. Great video, and good you are back in force here.

[@QRPSchool]

gsansoucie Thank you. -Cliff

[@ChrisConner1]

As I'm doing my taxes, you have put some sunshine in my day! Funniest video I've seen in a long time. Abandoned strollers, ham shack for two... Priceless.

[@QRPSchool]

Thanks, Chris! -Cliff

[@horsetrainingresources]

I'll have to try this with my KX2 in the park. Most of my portable QRP operating has been in the remote woods and they simply haven't found me there... yet. Lord bless you in this Easter season - and throughout the year! Love your videos, Cliff. Thanks.

[@lmaoroflcopter]

Shhh!!! Don't reveal our secrets Cliff! When I break out my 6m Yagi buddipole set up, they find it irresistible, though one time my friend set up his portable hexbeam just across the way from me and bam, I was left alone. He was swarmed! I mean they say size doesn't matter but I guess resonance does. My little loading coils just couldn't keep their interest. Rofl great video :) and happy Easter to you too

[@chronobot2001]

Just think if Benny Hill had been a ham radio operator.

[@jameswilliams4010]

This may be one of the most contemplative videos I have seen! I shall ponder ad infinitum!

[@opsprey3]

Woha, dial it back a little Cliff. That's a lot of chicks on that KX-2. I know what you're talking about though. When us happily devoted guys are operating in the park or on the trail, we keep ourselves held to the high standard of integrity of our fantastic hobby. Happy Easter to you as well.

[@rcbrush99]

Yes! A ham shack for two, lol. Avoid ham shacking up before marriage you young guys. Happy Easter everyone.

[@hamradiocomms]

That's great! Other chick magnets I've found are stamp and coin collections, power tools, solar flux data and space weather reports, metal detecting, and talking about surround systems and big TV's will keep them enthralled for hours.

[@QRPSchool]

i need to get busy and learn these other hobbies! - Cliff

[@hamradiocomms]

QRP School Hi Cliff, it would be time well spent... These hobbies plus your QRP radios will surely prove irresistible to the ladies!

[@n1rbd]

I was working CW in a state park doing a POTA activation has had a couple of college age girls sit with me at the park table for about 10 minutes. They were more amazed at the fact people still used Morse Code than me personally. LOL! Does that count?

[@MichaelLloyd]

Everyone in the know knows that CQ means Seek You to women. It's definitely a pheromone and it's a burden. "Hamshack for two", "Work a contest together", "Stallion has been tamed" and the ending... LOL... well done!

[@pacorumblefish]

Thank you for your courage to speak truth on this matter.

[@RKelling]

OMG!! Epic! Greatest video I’ve seen in ages!!

[@heathwhittle4514]

Cliff, I Love your humor! Thought for sure you were where going to QRP from a Feed and Seed store where they were selling baby chicks! Keep up the great work and hope to meet you on the air ! 73, Heath N4TWT By the way, my Mom's family is from Franklin. Her maiden name was McGavock are we have an old family house there called Carnton. It is no longer in the family but we enjoy going to the big Civil War reenactment each year.

[@QRPSchool]

Thank you, Heath. Your Mom's ancestors were a very big deal in Nashville (and Franklin)! Have a great weekend. - Cliff

[@RobertVinet]

You have it going on Mr. Cliff. Audio pheromones? Maybe it's just the size of your antenna.

[@lb3ohchristian544]

That's the best laugh I had all day. Happy Easter from LB3OH.

[@322doug]

Great video Cliff...….. but, every time I hold a ham radio, women run screaming GEEEEEK!!!!

[@QRPSchool]

We will be extremely popular in the Nuclear Winter, Zombie Apocalypse, etc. The Geeks will be Kings! :-)

[@322doug]

LOL ...73 man KD9GRP @@QRPSchool

[@UnderTheBigOak]

Great. Now my wife knows why I bought a QRP rig.

[@guitardzan5641]

Pick up chicks with a ham radio? At my age, I NEED A FLOOR JACK!

[@KX4UL]

Ok Cliff... you're killing me...Lol! Happy Easter!

[@polymath5119]

Happy Easter! Thanks for the chuckles.

[@dutchman55]

Lmao 😂 you’re awesome man, hope you had a great Christmas and New Years

[@youtubeaccount931]

Ham radio is for lovers!

[@JamesSanders]

wow, and all along I thought it was just me.. QRPp less than 1 watt, always does the same thing! Thanks for sharing! 73

[@michaelhiggins7365]

Best line . . . This Stallion has been tamed! That really got me laughing ! ;) de KM2U

[@aogbert]

I must say he led me along to the end.

[@srs26]

Hahahahaha! Cliff, this video has made my day! Kind regards Simon M0SYS, UK

[@QRPSchool]

Thank you, Simon! - Cliff

[@anilkraj]

Morse Code is like an audio pheromone... excellent!

[@SteveParks]

My wife is going to stop me from going to the park now. LOL!

[@QRPSchool]

Steve Parks Just tell her that this video was made by a delusional ham in the midst of a mid-hobby crisis. I think all suspension of disbelief occurred for viewers when I referred to myself as a stallion, Steve.

[@hamradiocq]

This is hilarious. : )

[@linzenmeyer]

LOL...Cliff, I love you man. I didn't get into HAM until after I was married. I asked her why she married me and she said it's because she needed a LONG term project.......

[@QRPSchool]

Michael Linzenmeyer My wife could make the same claim! It sounds like we both married “up”. -Cliff

[@mewrongwayKOCXF]

I picked up a chick one time at orscheln's, It pooped on my hand so I put it back in the cage. 😕

[@26CT1445]

I'm so glad I watched this video to the end 😊

[@AvocaSingleTrack]

"They've got Herman Miller airon chairs on order" Haaahahahaha I just ordered one for my office at work. Those chairs are 800 bux apiece !

[@s.davidtrout3056]

I love your humor

[@l4zy_jake]

Dude, that was just awesome! XYL loved it too. XD XD

[@QRPSchool]

David Jaquay I asked my wife to watch it before I published it, just to make sure it wasn’t too offensive for women. I think women could watch about 5 seconds of me saying that other women were attracted to me and my radio... and know that I was joking... especially if those 5 seconds included the part where I referred to myself as a Stallion! ;-)

[@willgilliam9053]

given this video a thumbs up, cause of how fowl it was... Happy late Easter

[@QRPSchool]

Thanks, Will. As you could probably tell, I was just winging it. I didn't mean to come off as cocky but I'm sure I've ruffled some feathers with this video. I'm hatching a plan for my next video and, hopefully, I won't run afowl of the ham community. It's kind comments such as yours that eggs me on.

[@willgilliam9053]

@@QRPSchool if this video didn't earn you a peck on the cheek from your wife, nothing will. Can you give us hint what the next video will be about? I am scratching my head as to what it will be. I'm sure it will not be anything bird brained like I would come up with. Do you just pluck your ideas out of the air? I better stop before someone roasts me....

[@QRPSchool]

@@willgilliam9053 I'll tell you. It's no birden at all. It may be hard to Swallow, but I'm doing a video on how a 1500 watt amplifier doesn't help that much. Of course, transmitting more than 1500 watts is ill eagle. The video will likely drive the QRO guys stork raven mad. If they want to make a rebuttal video, that's fine... toucan play that game. My credentials are far from im-peck-able, but I get it right most of the time. I have no egrets about making helpful videos.

[@willgilliam9053]

@@QRPSchool ... Salute sir, you Win the pun war, you will not hear a peep out of me til the next video, that sounds great, 73

[@paulriffe2079]

ROFLOL thank you for the laugh. Evidently my wife is immune to the allure ☺

[@QRPSchool]

Yours, too? I'm amazed my wife still has her vision. Years of eye-rolling should surely have taken its toll by now!. - Cliff

[@TheArtofEngineering]

😆😆😆😆🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@wadepatton2433]

This is why many OM hams -have- to have their radio gear out in the shack, out-of-earshot of their XYL's (or any neighbors or passers by), the women will swarm you (married or not) to get close to that CW sound! It helps to have a great side-tone too. Nudge wink.

[@PaulK7VIQ]

True story. When I told my now Wife I was a Ham she was so excited she told me has always liked ham radio and married me and became a Ham herself. Well it helped anyway.

[@QRPSchool]

Also a true story: I once saw two octogenerians walking ferets on leashes. I asked them how they met, and they told me that they were each walking a feret on a leash and randomly ran into each other at a park. Now, THAT'S fate! Sounds like your wife knew a good thing when she saw it. Congrats on having a ham wife! - Cliff

[@alalan3735]

The chicks were on CB! ;)

[@rameylewis7730]

Actually Cliff, you're partially correct. The chicks hitting on your really don't want to share a ham shack with you. They see you have gray hair, wearing glasses, and you know how to use an electronics device and so they figure you're intelligent and must have a job and possibly a retirement and so they are interested in latching onto you for reasons of stability. They don't want to work, but would love to share your income and so you're correct that these young nubile coeds will be attracted to you. Just for reasons you didn't describe. :)

[@QRPSchool]

Dang it, Ray! I don't need people like you sprinkling reality into my fantasy world! :-)

[@rameylewis7730]

@@QRPSchool Cliff, you're right. I take it back!!! Happy Easter!!!!!! :)

[@davidj.wilcox6053]

How can you do this with a straight face? What a hoot! Hope to see you at FDIM. Dave K8WPE

[@QRPSchool]

David J. Wilcox I had to fade the ending faster than I wanted because I couldn’t keep a straight face at the end. I’ll see you at FDIM, Dave. I’ve got my fingers crossed that Hans Summers shows up with some QSX Kits for purchase! Or that Elecraft announces a new KX0 rig that fits in an Altoid tin!

[@johnreid859]

Cliff, you smokin stuff?😂✌️

[@malukaluis]

🤣🤣 when's your next gig Cliff, I'll be there.

[@DeeegerD]

I also have the same experience metal detecting ;)

[@N1inSK]

First I thought it was a bit late for April 1. Then I showed the video to my wife; not a peep out of herl

[@QRPSchool]

Funny... it was the gifted Peeps to me that caused me to make this silly video. :-) Cliff

[@N1inSK]

:)@@QRPSchool

[@JosephNievesTech]

Happy Easter!

[@alalan3735]

That's funny! For a second I thought you were Dick Cheney!! ;)

[@QRPSchool]

I have a heart. - Cliff

[@GeographicaExpeditions]

Brilliant!!!

[@lephotographinc]

That is one FUNNY video. LMAO

[@QRPSchool]

Thanks, Pascal! - Cliff

[@binder098]

You are truly funny!

[@ke0ourwilliam982]

That was Great . Thank you

[@shadowlab9543]

motivation to take the tests !!

[@shadowlab9543]

ham shack for two lol

[@markknoepfle3913]

Audio pheromone! 73

[@W7LDT]

I have that same problem every time i work from the park.

[@QRPSchool]

I am glad to hear that it's a wide-spread problem for the ham community. I knew it wasn't just me. - Cliff

[@ramadaxl]

I'm thinking about making a 'spoof movie' entitled 'I Speek Radio'. That is unless anybody can come up with a better title ? All about how to chat up a girl using CB and Ham radio lingo. EG ...'QSK...QRA India, Alpha, November, QSL'? ( 'Hi...my name is Ian'.) REPLY: 'QSL...QRA Sierra, Uniform, Sierra, Alpha, November'. ( 'Hello...my name is Susan'. ) If she's not interested she'll end with 'QRT' (end of transmission). What d'ya reckon...a winner ?

[@KC6CNN]

Awesome Cliff...... LMAO

[@mdouble100]

I think I've broken something laughing. 73 VE3VCG. To be fully transparent my YL is VA3EAC.

[@DrDante221]

It's a bit late for April Fools , but I love it anyway WA2GVA

[@karlke0jwk368]

Funny, in a weird sort of way.

[@finderskeepers5343]

My radio shack has an open-door policy for young ladies all the time.

[@jonathanimlay9524]

Hahahaha! I love it! Happy Easter, Cliff! KA8GPM

[@daviddietrich9449]

I always admit to any girl I date that I am a nerd/geek and that I am a ham radio operator.

[@grammabauer1064]

Hilarious!

[@megangoeschbird5019]

Wait, what if you are an engineer, Ham, AND a female...? We live an interesting life. 😂

[@QRPSchool]

Then you are, well, pretty awesome, Megan!

[@megangoeschbird5019]

@@QRPSchool Happy Easter!

[@Solar_Tech_Liam]

Then you are the unicorn that male engineers talk about in hushed tones around the water cooler and at ham fests 🤣

[@megangoeschbird5019]

@@Solar_Tech_Liam Haha, I love what I've become, and appreciate the humor!

[@Solar_Tech_Liam]

@@megangoeschbird5019 Awesome, quick favor to ask though, could you go get some of your female friends into the hobby as well? That way this video might have a shot at being an actual how-to at some point ;-)

[@maniacguitarhero]

Or you could pass them on phone numbers of hams that don't have a YL. Help US find a YL. You are great. 73 de SY1CVS

[@Gracefull4]

newsflash.......ham radios are not chick magnets....

[@KevinModerow]

Cliff, You op CW and ride a Surly. We must've been separated at birth.

[@QRPSchool]

Hey, Kevin. Which Surly do you have? My bike is a Long Haul Trucker and I've seriously considered getting the Disc Brake frame and transferring my components to that new frame. I used to have a Surly Big Dummy and the mechanical disc brakes were a game-changer. I understand that some bikes now have hydraulic disc brakes. Very cool.

[@KevinModerow]

@@QRPSchool I have a Pacer and a Cross-Check photos.app.goo.gl/VQJ3P2RgvMrFs88t6

[@QRPSchool]

@@KevinModerow I really like the way you've got that Cross Check set up. It looks pretty comfy... my kind of ride!

[@KevinModerow]

@@QRPSchool A video of my own, Cliff kzbin.info/www/bejne/gHnVoalqe7t9rcU

[@nr3rful]

😃😃😃😃 you too

[@larry7463]

Too funny!!

[@gabrielguzmann1ufo905]

LOL 😂

[@goneflin]

Bravo! Bravo!

[@Paddy_Roche]

Ahaha, fantastic

[@kenvandeburgt1232]

LoL

[@Nicktgrief]

34 years ago i made a coffee for a yl and we sat in my room and she saw my heathkit sb200... we’re still together and she’s amazed by my 817nd and the ic7300 😎 Happy easter from the UK G8SYE 😂🤪

[@QRPSchool]

Nick, you obviously chose wisely! Congrats to both to you. - Cliff

[@TammieM3ENF]

Does this work in reverse? I'll have to get a portable and head to the park :-) 73 88 M3ENF

[@chronobot2001]

You had me right up until the end. Then I had to ask myself... Is this satire?

[@QRPSchool]

I wouldn't put too much thought into analyzing it. Just an attempt to make a ham laugh. -Cliff

[@gregmalonewa3gm680]

@@QRPSchool HOW COME NO NEW VIDEOS IN ALMOST 4 YEARS??

[@QRPSchool]

@@gregmalonewa3gm680 I don't know. I am still alive and well. I'm very active with my local ARES group. I'm traveling more than ever and my job running a software company occupies a lot of my time. I will retire in two years and expect to do more with ham radio then. However, I also feel that my 52 videos have shown that QRP works and why it works. So, I believe I accomplished what I set out to prove. Thanks for asking about me. - Cliff

[@BeNiceToEachOtherplease]

umm "why are there no women in the ham radio community?" answers in under 5 mins.

[@QRPSchool]

Are you saying that my over-the-top, obviously tongue-in-cheek, ridiculous Easter video, that ultimately shows that the only reliable way for male hams to “pick up chicks” is if the chicks are Peeps... is somehow keeping female hams from entering the hobby? That is not my intention. Do you have an amateur radio license? If not, I hope you’ll consider joining this fun hobby. -Cliff

[@BeNiceToEachOtherplease]

@@QRPSchool i see the attempt at humour. It just doesn't sit so well. Perhaps it's cus I have an image of ham radio that many men are super creepy and will be less than nurturing. I hope I am wrong. I'm starting out

[@QRPSchool]

I hope you will find that the (predominantly) old hams are very welcoming of the younger generation into the hobby. It always makes me happy to see anyone under 50 (!) take an interest in amateur radio. There are so many facets to this hobby and I think there's something for everyone. It may take a while for you to discover what interests you the most... satellite communications, Moon Bounce, digital communications, low-power battery-operated radios in the field (my fave), DX (long-distance communications), SOTA, POTA, etc. I got my original licenses when I was 26 years old. I played around with it for a while and then got busy with other things. I came back to it later and have cycled into/out of it a few times over the years. You may do the same and that's okay! But, without an influx of young people in the hobby, amateur radio will slowly fizzle out over the next 20 years as older hams reach their natural expiration date. You may have 1,000 questions and if I can be of any help, don't hesitate to reach out to me. I don't claim to have all the answers but I know people who do. I can be reached via email at: [e-mail] Best of luck with your ham radio journey. - Cliff

[@davidvaughn7752]

Very funny! 73, K7GYB

[@ve3zcv344]

Lmfao

[@RevGunn-jq3cq]

LMAO!!!

[@southjersey10]

That was almost 😆. KE0VFT

[@donaldpeloquin5183]

Women like to fix men. They think something must be wrong with you. hihi

[@ruhnet]

LOL! 73s

[@RobMacKendrick]

Thought it was gonna involve a forklift. Not gonna lie, I'm kinda disappointed. And I suspect most hams agree.

[@QRPSchool]

"Thought it was gonna involve a forklift." - Ha! I guess we can face the truth, Rob... ladies will not be impressed with our ham skills until we are all huddled together in a bunker during the Nuclear Winter. :-)

[@RobMacKendrick]

@@QRPSchool And probably not even then. But that will be the least of our problems. For starters, the EMP will be playing havoc with DX.