[SOC] his SOCliness reports in

[Jan Clute]

What do you do when someone tells you you are a dupe in a contest and you
know you are not? (Most often they are right, and I repent yet again about
being too lazy to dupe and too dull to remember the contact). There ought to
be a prosign for that (rather than "at" !). How about BS! (Run together or
not, and guess what it stands for), roughly translated, "I am a duffer, I
have made 3 contacts in this contest, and I know damned well I have not
worked you before, get the wax out of your ears and the cat off of your dupe
sheet). 73 Jan N0AAA
(sunny, about 50F, and so calm I can hear the airliners going over at 30,000
feet... bizarre. Trees are trying to grow leaves, also. Nice time of year if
I could afford to get someone else to do the yard work!)

SOC#*(


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Cunningham" <k4ksr@qsl.net>
To: "SOC1" <soc@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 8:36 AM
Subject: [SOC] his SOCliness reports in


> Ah, where to begin...
>
> Not a contester, the ARCI events do provide a wonderful venue to play with
> 500 mw.  Results are never spectacular, but fun.   Family plans precluded
> any participation this weekend until abrupt changes made it possible --
> except when SWMBO decreed otherwise.
>
> 20 meter conditions really sucked swamp water.   N4BP must have sucked the
> Everglades dry as he was barely audible early on.  Finally did work him
> after about 30 minutes of hearing not much else.  Switched to 40 and added
a
> few before SWMBO intervened.  Attended to that errand and came back
several
> hours later.  Punched the K1 bandswitch a few (too few) times to see what
> was doing on 15.  Nil, except Bob had this wonderful signal at last.
Called
> him to receive "QSO B4."  Hmm.  Check band and find I'm actually on 20.
Not
> much else on 20, so back to 40 where there is now reasonable activity,
> actually working a few.  Ah, there's K3ESE, so I call Lloyd to get "QSO
B4."
> Hmm.  Not in MY log, so he sends anew.  Best I can figure is that I hit
> "clear" instead of "enter" on the first go.  Things do begin to open up a
> little bit on 20, when SWMBO announces impending (manditory) chow
formation.
> But there's time to sneak in a couple.  At which point the modified bug I
> use for paddle goes absolutely berserk with QSO half completed.  And that
> ended the evening.  Sunday was awash (restoring swamp water) and I dropped
> music in the rain on way to sing two cantata performances.  Managed to
> rescue same, but was flat most of first performance, gurgling phlegm.  No
> problem for second performance, but the first go inspired the bass next to
> me to sing flat for most of the second performance until he jumped to the
> tenor part.  SOCliness is contageous.   Arose early this morning to attack
> ZL7II on 40, after fixing the paddle.  Umm, but not after changing power
> setting from 0.5 watts.  That took 30 minutes to figure out.
>
> yers truly,
> 1/2 watt 1/2 wit
>
> Umm, and N4BP is now an older fart.  Happy Belated Birthday, Bob.
>
>
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