[CW] Solid Gold Vibroplex

Sat Mar 24 21:23:27 EDT 2012

That's why "Seven Virgin" olive oil sells so well to the Sparks around the
Suez bum boats.

I never would have known.

73
DR
On Mar 24, 2012 8:23 PM, "Radio K0HB" <kzerohb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Naw, Speedo Mohammed had a solid PLATINUM Vibroplex, embedded with rare
> gems, and lubricated with poppy-oil.  Nubile maidens massaged his fingers
> with Extra Virgin Olive Oil as he awaited his next QRQ request.
>
> *73, de Hans, K0HB*
> *"Just a boy and his radio"*
> --
> Sea stories at --------> http://k0hb.wordpress.com
> Superstition trails ---> http://oldslowhans.wordpress.com
>
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> On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 5:16 PM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <n1ea at arrl.net> wrote:
>
>> I'm no saint either, but I still want to get my solid gold Vibroplex.
>>
>> No one told you yet, but the ONLY person in the world who had one was
>> this Egyptian operator who worked at Suez Radio - made his Vibro into a
>> machine gun.  Deadly to your fingers if you ever said "QRQ" to him.
>>
>> I always wondered why there weren't too many SU amateurs - they're great
>> operat ors.  I guess there weren't too many Turks a while ago but now
>> they've returned.
>>
>> I know what Hell is though, sitting on a receiving end of the circuit of
>> a passenger ship with QTC 300 and a Pakistani operator - they all sounded
>> the same - I don't know where they learned their code.  I couldn't copy
>> it.  Sometimes when I got a fellow I couldn't copy, I'd ask where he came
>> from - and most often it was from AP land.  So I told him there was an ex-
>> USN operator who stood the watch at WSC with me "who loved to copy
>> Pakistani CW operators!  I asked him if he could sit my 8 MHz position and
>> I went for a coffee.
>>
>> 73
>>
>> David J. Ring, Jr., N1EA <http://www.qsl.net/n1ea/>
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>> On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Radio K0HB <kzerohb at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> I guess I'm not a Saint yet, because I like CW, RTTY, SSB, AM, PSK, and
>>> even a little beer once in a while.
>>>
>>> *73, de Hans, K0HB*
>>> *"Just a boy and his radio"*
>>> --
>>> Sea stories at --------> http://k0hb.wordpress.com
>>> Superstition trails ---> http://oldslowhans.wordpress.com
>>>
>>>
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>>> On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 4:55 PM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <n1ea at arrl.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> They say when we die, us lovers of Morse, finally earn not the
>>>> Presentation model Vibroplex, but we get the rare - Heavenly in fact -
>>>> Solid Gold Vibroplex.
>>>>
>>>> I was thinking of that and I realized that all the Saints in Heaven
>>>> love CW.
>>>>
>>>> But is it true that Satan is a SSB operator?
>>>>
>>>> I thought he was a mixture of bad operator, QRM and QRN.
>>>>
>>>> 73
>>>>
>>>> David J. Ring, Jr., N1EA <http://www.qsl.net/n1ea/>
>>>> SOWP <http://www.sowp.org/>, VWOA <http://www.vwoa.org/>, OOTC<http://www.ootc.us/>,
>>>> FISTS <http://www.fists.co.uk/>, CW-Ops <http://www.cwops.org/>, CFO<http://groups.google.com/group/Chicken-Fat-Operators-Club?hl=en>,
>>>> A1-OP <http://www.arrl.org/a-1-op>, ex-FOC 1271 ARRL-LM<http://www.arrl.org/>
>>>>  Chat Skype: djringjr MSN: djringjr at msn.com AIM: N1EA icq: 27380609
>>>>  Radio-Officers Google Group<http://groups.google.com/group/radio-officers?hl=en>-- Marine
>>>> Morse Historic Recordings Page <http://www.qsl.net/n1ea/>
>>>>
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