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

DateUserUser scoreStatusToot summary & link
2025-10-06 17:47:09DL6PL@social.darc.de9Success!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 11:26:29bgarfoot@kind.social21Success!A haiku for HC41S:A great POTA day.Almost set up, but oh noes!Forgot the coax 😭 #hamradio #amateurradio
2025-10-11 22:02:03ei7ijb@mastodon.radio9Success!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 14:46:04siwli@toot.berlin20Success!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 23:30:13DJ3CE@social.darc.de15Working 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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