[SOC] Fwd: SOC

[Bob Patten]

Thought maybe our members would be interested in history of
the older Czech SOC....

--- Jan Ku�era <ok1nr@volny.cz> wrote:
> From: Jan Ku�era <ok1nr@volny.cz>
> To: <n4bp@yahoo.com>
> CC: <ok1zf@volny.cz>
> Subject: SOC
> Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 21:53:08 +0100
> 
> Dear Bob,
> 
> Julda, OK1ZF, had informed me about his correspondence
> with you, dealing the
> SOC, founded in the former Czechoslovakia.
> 
> I promised to him to send to you some more information
> about that matter,
> that follows:
> 
> The SOC (Second Operator�s Club) was founded on May 31st,
> 1967 at 11 P.M. in
> a famous Czech pub "U Kalicha" (where the Good Soldier
> �vejk drank his
> everyday�s beer) by three friends: Karel, OK2BEW, Tom,
> OK2BFN, and Jan,
> OK1NR. It was a club of friends.
> I (OK1NR) was elected the president (because it was my
> idea) with SOC nr. 1
> 1st vicepresident was elected Karel, OK2BEW, SOC nr. 2
> and
> 2nd vice president was elected Tom, OK2BFN, SOC nr 3,
> (because he was the
> youngest one).
> The basic idea was: All operators can not be the first
> class operators.
> there are second class operators, too.
> The SOC was not meant to be an oposition to the FOC at
> all. Only to be a
> parallel to it. The SOC has never been officially
> registered. The then
> regime would never permit to found such activity without
> its direct
> influence. New member only has to send his request to the
> president. No
> recommendation from anyone. The SOC had 18 members.
> Absolute majority of
> members were very good high speed CW operators. (One of
> our members is
> Jirka, OK2RZ. You can find his call on top of many
> contests. Tom, OK2BFN, is
> a leader of Czech high speed competitions at home as well
> as in abroad and
> he is a member of the Slovak contest team, OM7M and Jiri,
> OK1GT, now a FOC
> member). All members have a wooden plaque with his
> member�s number. If you
> will be interested I can send to you one specimen as a
> gift to your club.
> 
> Well, that is all for today Bob. By the way I have got a
> QSL card from you
> for our QSO on Jan 20, 1997 on 3,5 MHz and we worked
> during the last ARRL
> SSB Contest on March 2, 2002 on 28 MHz. Many thanks for
> that.
> 
> My best greetings to you as well as to all your members.
> Perhaps we will
> meet again.
> 
> 73 Jan, OK1NR
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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73,     Bob Patten, N4BP       Plantation, FL

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