52 Week Ham Radio Challenge 2025 - Week 41: Write a poem on your biggest ham radio pet peeve!
Challenge for 2025-10-06 - 2025-10-12:
Category: 😂 - Difficulty: 🟠
Write a poem on your biggest ham radio pet peeve!
Be creative and share your creation. It can be a classic poem, a haiku, a limerick, whatever comes to mind. The use of generative AI is discouraged!
Toots mentioning this challenge
| Date | User | User score | Status | Toot summary & link | 
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| 2025-10-06 17:47:09 | DL6PL@social.darc.de | 9 | Success! | He does not listen like a kid,Shouting his callsign, God forbid,Into the other's conversation,Producing nothing but frustration,So he is rightly called a lid!(Not that easy as a non-native speaker, but at least I tried)#hamchallenge #HC41S @hamchallenge | 
| 2025-10-09 11:26:29 | bgarfoot@kind.social | 21 | Success! | A haiku for HC41S:A great POTA day.Almost set up, but oh noes!Forgot the coax 😠#hamradio #amateurradio | 
| 2025-10-11 22:02:03 | ei7ijb@mastodon.radio | 9 | Success! | For the 41st challenge, 'Write a poem on your biggest ham radio pet peeve!’, I present my view and my view only. It concerns a very popular aspect of our hobby that I struggle to understand. #hamchallenge HC41S A quiet and lonely rockSilence broken by a shuffle or squawkThen came operators on boats with gearAn ego driven to become the ultimate DX-erWhy ?!! Oh Why ??!!! I will never know ! Sigh !! | 
| 2025-10-13 14:46:04 | siwli@toot.berlin | 20 | Success! | Challenge for Week 41 was to write a poem on my biggest #hamradio pet peeve.Well, here we go: HC41SThey hear my voice and they rejoice"Oh, a YL!", they shout but I'd rather not stand out or at least have the choice.Disclaimers:- I'm bad at poems. Always have been - that's why I'm an engineer, not a poet- Yes, it's nice to feel welcome. But it's also tiring to stick out all the time. Not going to discuss this (did that in a blog post some time ago already). | 
| 2025-10-21 23:30:13 | DJ3CE@social.darc.de | 15 | Working on it... | It's not exactly a pet peeve – at least not in the presented mode. It's more like... difficult to explain to people not involved :). But everytime I thought about HC41, my mind came to rest at the sound of the following "poem":best 73tu tu tu tudidit diditdit dit... -.-I think it doesn't make any sense without the attached recording – so please give it a try and let me know if that should count for the #hamchallenge ...@hamchallenge | 
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