[Boatanchors] Wouff Hong for sale Scam

[Rod Hogg]

Yes...the "Royal Order of the Wouff Hong" is still alive.  The initiation
ceremony ritual is traditionally performed at 'low midnight' and ONLY at an
official ARRL function.  It involves characters portrayed by members of the
order and is for the 'enlightenment' of "novice" operators to the good
practices of ham radio operation.
Please do not poke jokes at the order as it is real and many could benefit
from passing into it.  It's a fun/serious ceremony.
I went through it in 1974 and have helped in others.
Rod
KØEQH 


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When I woke up this morning, for some reason the Wouff Hong discussion was
floating around in my head.  In my blissful state of near sleep, it came to
me that the ceremony was called "The Royal Order of the Wouff Hong".  Does
that sound right?  I think the ceremony was to train you in the jedi ways of
good operating procedures and to allow you to yield the Wouff Hong (akin to
a light saber) against o perators with poor practices  :) 



One other thing that came to mind was that T.O.M. (Hiram) wrote a long
series of articles over several years complaining about the various bad
practices that were being heard on the bads.  Those articles are  hilarious
to read.   73, Scott WA9WFA 



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From: "Bill Cromwell" <wrcromwell at gmail.com> 
To: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net 
Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2013 7:46:02 AM 
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Wouff Hong for sale Scam 

Hi, 

I was in that ceremony once upon a time. There was a certificate (long 
since filed in "a safe place") but no wouff-hong was issued to us. One 
*was* waved around during the ceremony. Yikes! 

73, 

Bill  KU8H 
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