Bio for this ham--- Mr. Badham

Mr. Badham,  has had a long history with the net. His contributions have been many. He is an expert on everything and knows what is best for everyone. He has many amateur call signs but sometimes elects to not give it on the air. He contributes by making snide comments, playing music, putting a shaver on his microphone, making rude sounds, and just about anything else he can think of to cause trouble for those on the net.

Mr. Badham lives in many places around the world. Sometimes he is DX and other times he is stateside. He has friends who also enjoy causing trouble and he occasionally recruits them to join him in the fun. He hates many things in the world and expresses this hatred whenever he gets a chance. He has a miserable life and feels it is his mission to spread this discontent to everyone else, so they can be as miserable as he has become.  

You and I have probably heard him or even had a QSO with him. I can remember one time when I talked to him on the air and he expressed his philosophy to me as follows:  

I hates them there DX nets. I worked hard here in my home in Georgia , he lived in Georgia that day. I have my multi-long boom beams stacked up there on my 190 foot tower that is connected to my home brew amplifier running (3) 8877s.  I just don’t understand why those slimy snake, low life trailer trash lizards have to go on a DX net to work DX.  “ All the real hams here in my area work DX in the regular way not just giving the lass toooo, like those (*&#%^$) do on the DX nets. There should be a law, there should be a law, I tell you!! The ARRL should not counts any of them there contacts they make on them there DX nets!!”

I tried to tell Mr. Badham that there are a lot of hams around the world that do not have the resources to put up a wonderful station like he had. I told him that some hams just want to work DX in a casual manner while just having fun and enjoying each other on the air and spreading understanding and goodwill around the world.  He would not be persuaded and told me that working DX was a blood sport and should only be done by real red blooded men like him and his friends.    

Sometimes Mr. Badham does not go on the frequency and disruption the net directly. He just snuggles up close to the net frequency and his activities  that are less then 3 KHz away cause as much trouble as coming on the frequency itself. Yes, it is true that good practice calls for any ham, if it is a net or not, to be at least 3Khz away from an existing QSO. And yes, if someone else is on the frequency first the net should QSY away. BUT when there has been a traditional group as long running as the W7PHO Family Hour with many hams all over the world knowing that the net meets daily on 14.245 you would think that common courtesy would dictate that a small group of friends could move away just a little to show some consideration for others. Yes I know that the other group may be legally correct, but come on Mr. Badham, why not you be the magnanimous one?  

Mr. Badham will be going into the home soon. He obviously has advanced stages of dementia and or old-timers disease. He currently wears diapers and takes his meds when his care taker reminds him. He will spend his final days a bitter old man with few friends, messing himself in some rest home bed. We can only hope that sometime before that happens, he gets a life and becomes a productive ham again.