[CW] [cwops] Any Robert Service fans?

[Kate Hutton]

This one is good!  The Telegraph Operator reads like a suicide note.

73 Kate K6HTN

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Radio K0HB <kzerohb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Awesome!  Robert would applaud!
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> *"Just a boy and his radio"*
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> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Art Trampler <atrampler at att.net> wrote:
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>> Thank you for sharing.  Some years back, with apologies to Mr. Service, I
>> penned the following and shared on the Ten-Tec reflector after watching an
>> OM (who lived near Williams Lake) troubleshoot and fix his Omni VI.
>>
>> The Fixation of Five Sixty-Three
>>
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>> There be strange smoking toil, by the night's waning oil,
>> When men quell their chirps and their clicks,
>> But the strangest it seems, so near to our dreams
>> Was the night near the snake of the Williams Lake
>> When Joe repaired his old Omni Six.
>>
>> Now Joe was a man who was known as a ham,
>> Who would dit and dah with the best
>> But his dear Omni Six, in need of a fix
>> Had a stuck PLL borne on vapors of hell
>> That gave our dear OM no rest.
>>
>> So Joe turned to the reflector, a knowledge collector
>> Where the oracle was known to lurk
>> And was given good fodder to search for some solder
>> That was cold in the joint-now you see my point
>> That had caused this unsettling quirk.
>>
>> With hot iron in hand, smoke rings rose in a band
>> Round his head like ethereal wraith
>> And o'er the circuits he went with a hard-focused bent
>> To make tin and lead flow like spilt blood in the snow
>> Yet still t'was an act of his faith.
>> For circuits that die are ne'er hard to come by
>> Yet to resurrect them requires the knack,
>> That is found less these days, lost in mists and in haze
>> To fix what is broken, a repair more than token
>> In the quiet of Joe's radio shack.
>>  Yet when he was done was he sure he had won,
>> This battle with solder joints cold?
>> It would seem that he was, or that was the buzz
>> Which passed round the net (did you place a bet?)
>> At least that's how this tale has been told.
>>
>> When at last came the hour when he restored power
>> Cold display pierced the shack's whelming night
>> He placed his hand to the dial, then turning it while
>> The numbers did change; said I before it was strange
>> QRG dancing now in his sight.
>> Thus a fine fix did Joe bring to his Six,
>> And it plays now as yet in its youth
>> Each circuit now works, no duty it shirks
>> All joints are now well, yet still cold as hell
>> Hear all you men, 'tis the truth.
>>  So when next you hear Joe's signal come near
>> I ask you friend, bear this yarn in mind
>> That our Joe was not slow
>> To repair with all care
>> A Six needing a Fix from its bind.
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>> There be strange smoking toil, by the night's waning oil
>> And the strangest by far to these ears
>> Was the night that Joe fought with what Ten-Tec had wrought
>> Coiled near to the snake of that old Williams Lake
>> And it may be the strangest for years.
>>
>> Art Trampler, KØRO
>> 481
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