[SOC] Club call

[Bob N0UF]

If we have enough members to qualify, I don't see why SOC
couldn't get a club call from England, France, Australia and
wherever if those countries members wanted to do it.

73
Bob
SOC #521

----- Original Message -----
From: <f5pbl@qsl.net>
To: "SOC" <soc@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 3:17 AM
Subject: [SOC] Vanity call


>
> Re,
>
> <<
> A new club call can't be applied for on-line, it takes two signatures, the
> trustee and an officer of the club who is not the trustee and is an FCC
> licensed ham, sorry Claude.
> >>
>
> Do not worry, I am fully aware of that and that's why I have written than
as an
> oversea member (meaning not holding a FCC licence), I can hardly help you
> but "dans l'esprit".
> Besides that ... a F/KC#SOC activation can be funny too.
> BTW, "KC" with the French pronounciation ("cass�") means "broken".
>
> Of course, a more SOC way to do it is for me to get a FCC licence (I guess
it
> should be possible to find 2 VEC at the US embassy in Paris) and then I
will be
> able to use the club call in a more efficient way.
>
> <<
> If N7YA, Adam, the Reflector administrator lets us know how many hams that
> is we'll know the number of votes needed for a majority.
> >>
>
> FYI, Adam has not been seen on this list for too much time now and not
only me
> but some other friends are worrying abt that, really.
> So, for some months now I have been "auto-nominated" as Reflector Admin.
> As for the info you are asking for, there is several ways to get it :
> 1) look at the monthly stats, the very first line or maybe the 2nd one is
> stating how much people are subscribers
> 2) if you do not have this email anymore, you can still look at the online
> archives ( http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/soc/ )
> 3) you can even go to http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/soc to
access to
> your account and get the info.
> 4) last but not least, you can read it here right now : 63 , 55 of us are
> receiving the "non-digest" version, the remaining 8 preferring keeping the
good
> stuff for their week-end evenings.
>
> The majority is approx. around 32 but I think first that we should vote to
> decide which majority we should use : absolute one, voting/simple one or
> the "2/3" one ?... (and which majority should be used for this 1st vote
??)
>
> The remark sent by Dennis ("getting a club call is _NOT_ in the SOC
spirit") is
> not a stupid one in itself (!!) but once agn it will put me out of the
game for
> F clubs call, with some exceptions, have a K as their first letter in the
> suffix.
> But as usual .. who cares ?
>
> A suivre !
>
> 72!
> Claude, F5PBL
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