[SOC] How does one upgrade to SOC

[Ian C. Purdie]

John,

A screamer. May I use it in a future newsletter?

Ian

JMcAulay wrote:

> "Upgrading" to SOC?  Can't be done.  That would be like upgrading to brown
> eyes or curly hair.  Second Class Operators are born, not made.  It isn't
> something you can study for.  You either are, or you aren't.  Recognition
> of this status, however, ahh... that's what membership really confers.
>
> Whwen there's a big pileup, and things finally calm down enough for you to
> hear that guy in Uzbekistan so clearly, but you are so excited you send the
> call of the last station he worked, and the VE3 comes back to you like a
> ton of bricks, sending "I KNOW U?"... that's second class.
>
> When a visitor to your shack looks curiously at your coax switch with the
> knob pointed toward "TWO METERS" while you work someone in Eastern Europe,
> and you have to confess you labeled it wrong in 1967 and just never
> bothered changing it... that's second class.
>
> When you finish cleaning up that old Marine-Band radio to use on 160 meters
> and try a few test transmissions, and the antenna loads a little funny
> because you changed the wrong crystal, and the Coast Guard is on the
> telephone asking you to please get the heck off 2182... that's second class.
>
> These sorts of things can't be learned.  They just don't happen to ordinary
> people.  They are reserved for those of us who are truly second class.
>
> We need to stick together.
>
> 73
> John WA6QPL  SOC 263?
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