[PVRCNC] Is there a writer in the house?

[Brad Hedges]

No it doesn't - KE6RAD did a fine job there, for sure.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim K4QPL [mailto:k4qpl at nc.rr.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 08:56
To: Brad Hedges; pvrcnc at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [PVRCNC] Is there a writer in the house?

Don't know, but even the parody doesn't kill the Hemingway genius!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brad Hedges" <bhedges at nc.rr.com>
To: <pvrcnc at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 8:25 AM
Subject: [PVRCNC] Is there a writer in the house?


> To respond to Ward, N0AX, in the Rate Sheet?
>
> The QSO Count Also Rises
> By Kevin KE6RAD
>
> In the fall of 2006 the rains fell as usual and washed the towers of the
> dust and dripped from the guy wires onto the ground. The cars drove 
> through
> the rainy streets and took the people to club meetings, then later brought
> them back, their tires spraying the mist into the air.
>
> Many days N6CCC stood for a long time and watched the rain and the cars 
> and
> drank his double-tall mochas. With the mochas he was strong.
>
> Dean who worked the propagation prediction and who was large with 
> microbrews
> came to him and told him that Sweepstakes was upon them but there were not
> enough operators.  There was never enough operators even when you were 
> past
> the CW weekend sipping a Redhook or a double-tall mocha and you thought 
> you
> were safe but there were never enough and although Marc rallied the 
> members
> and the mochas were hot the PVRC was there and they ate at you.
>
> When Dean told him this he asked how many Qs. "The PVRC is huge with Qs,"
> Dean said. "The Qs are infinite."
>
> "Why do you ask me? You know I cannot do this thing anymore with the Qs."
>
> "Once you were great with the Qs," Dean said. "No one was greater,"
> he said again. "Even Prado."
>
> "Prado? What of Prado? Let Prado log the Qs."
>
> Dean shrugged. "Prado is finished. He was gored by three CW WW DX's in
> Barbados. All he does now is drink herb tea and play with his logging
> programs."
>
> "Herb tea?"
>
> "It is true, my friend." Dean shrugged again. Later he went to his shack 
> and
> sat in the dark for a long time. Then he sent e-mail to N6CCC.
>
> N6CCC came to him while he was sipping a mocha. They sat silently for
> awhile, then he asked N6CCC, "I need you to operate for me."
>
> N6CCC looked down. "I don't do that anymore," he said.
>
> "This is different. The Qs are enormous. There are an infinity of Qs."
>
> "I'm finished with that," N6CCC said again. "I just want to live quietly."
>
> "Have you heard Prado is finished? He was badly gored. Now he can only 
> drink
> herb tea."
>
> "Herb tea?" N6CCC said.
>
> "It is true," he said sorrowfully.
>
> N6CCC stood up. "Then I will do it, my friend," he said formally. "I will 
> do
> it for Prado, who was once great with the Qs. I will do it for the time
> Prado won only with wires, and for the time PVRC wrote us off and we slew
> all of them with no fear and only a great joy at the combat. I will do it
> for all the pizza we ate and the bottles of Coke we drank."
>
> Together they walked slowly back, knowing it would be good. As they walked
> the rain dripped softly from the towers.
>
> ******************
>
> I am still relatively new to the Contesting Fraternity, so while Dean is
> obvious, who are "Prado" and "Marc" supposed to be? N6CCC is a Tech
> licensee... probably not a world-class CW operator (although I mean no
> disrespect to him with that).
>
> Can anyone enlighten me?
> 73, and see you Thursday!
>
> Brad
> AL4T
>
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