[SOC] Can someone answer this for me?

[Ian C. Purdie]

"Dan W. Dooley" wrote:

> And now I'm fearful that I may have pulled a really, really, really SOC
> boner.

Sheez, mate what makes you different from the rest of us?

Jokes aside, I've rarely encountered such an "integrated" group where we don't have to
pretend. Just being yourself advertises your qualifications here (well it is with me and a
few well known mates on this list)

> Think I mentioned yesterday that I'd gotten the XR0X contact.  Did I mention
> which band I got it on?  Ehhhhhhh!

See being SOC, what's XROX?

> Somehow in the back of my brain I was thinking of 12 meters.  Why?  Don't
> know.  I was jumping around a bit.  So somehow 12 stuck in part of my brain.

12 meters? Now I confess I'm not up on things but Dan, aren't we a mite out of control
here. Glad it's not me....

> I put my contact info on scrap paper as I make them.  Call, time, date,
> freq, etc.  Then when I get the chance I put it into the electronic log.  So
> I enter the info from my notes and I read that the freq. was 28.445.  THAT's
> not 12 is it?  So what band did I work 'im on?

Hmmmm I'm not as dumb as I thought, is 9 metres an "each way" chance?

> Easy answer?  "ya wrote 28 MHz, dummy!"  So?  I might have written that from
> an earlier band switch.  So why is my gut thinking 12 m?  I cudda switched
> bands during the process even though I wrote down 10 m. as an earlier
> reference.
>
> Oh sigh........ what are the early symptoms of dementia?

No Daniel, we may call it "advanced enlightenment"


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