[Fists] wheres the fun?

[Richard A. Stern]

Stan,

It's amazing ... I don't have you in my PC log.
I'll check my paper log but I doubt we QSOed.
I can't work Delaware HF That and Nevada
are the only states I haven't worked.

My qth is next to VA on the DELMARVA peninsula.

I'm willing to make a sked for some good cw conversation...HI...HI
                                            CUL de Richard (NW3N)



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----- Original Message -----
From: "Stan Reas" <stanreas@rev.net>
To: "Jeff Davis" <n9avg@att.net>
Cc: <Nancy@tir.com>; <b.mohr@verizon.net>; <rstern@shore.intercom.net>
Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 12:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Fists] wheres the fun?


> At 22:53 4/18/02 -0500, you wrote:
> >The gift of gab isn't easy to come by ... I tune the bands each
> >evening and always find someone sending CQ on CW. I answer them and
> >about the time we have traded RST, names, QTH, rig and WX info they
> >tell me, "well abt time for chow BT tnx fer fb QSO BT 73 73".
> >
> >I suppose they could be sending that with their memory keyer too ...
> >not much different than your experience on psk31, eh?
> >
> >Yawn. Everybody chases numbers but nobody wants to chat. Everybody
> >wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die. Where have all the
> >ragchewers gone?
> >
> >73 de Jeff, N9AVG
> >FISTS #6641
>
> Jeff - N9AVG:
>
> I want to take exception to your statement: "Everybody chases numbers but
> nobody wants to chat."
>
> I admit to being a "paper chaser" and I've earned all the Awards which
> FISTS has available except for this latest 15th Anniversary Award.  I have
> had QSO's with 1322 different members of FISTS.
>
> And I do have the FISTS Rag Chewers Award.  To get it requires a LOT of
> "chatting" - 100 QSO's with FISTS members each of which lasts at least 30
> minutes.  To date I have had 250 QSO's with FISTS members which qualify as
> Rag Chews.  They total 10,031 minutes, which figures out to more than 40
> minutes per QSO.
>
> Interestingly, in my 5 years as a member of FISTS I have not had a QSO
with
> you, let alone a Rag Chew.  Perhaps this is due to the progation path
> between Moneta, VA and Muncie, IN.  But I often work members in Indiana,
> both from my mobile and from my fixed station.
>
> So, I look forward to a "Rag Chew" QSO with you in the near future.  There
> IS fun in ham radio.
>
> 73, Stan - K4UK
>
> P.S. To <b.mohr@verizon.net>:
>          Since you didn't indicate in your message who you are, I can't
> know whether we have had a
>          QSO or not.  If we haven't, give me a call the next time you hear
> me and we'll have a Rag
>          Chew.
>
> P.S. To NW3N:
>          Don't find a QSO or a Rag Chew with you in my log either.  Of
> course Crisfield, MD may not
>          be reachable from Moneta, VA - Hi!
>
>
>