[SOC] FW: SOC Membership

[Kip Williams N6NVP]

-----Original Message-----
From: Kip Williams N6NVP [mailto:n6nvp at cox.net] 
Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 10:04 PM
To: 'SOC HQ'
Subject: RE: SOC Membership

Thank you for your time and attention. Now, my performance anxiety rises,
trying to live up to somebody's expectations. What if I WAS being "all that
I can be"? What if I'm not cut-out for Second Class? What if I'm not ready?
Your kindness, admitting me to so illustrious an organization, might well be
my undoing. Can you live with that? Well, the "mustard", as Chick Hearns
might say, "is off the hot dog, now." It's done and you'll have to explain
it to the group. (Anyway - it was the best $6,000 bucks I've ever
spent...and hey, let me know if that check clears. I got hundreds of them!)

I wanted to say hello to the group and, by way of introduction, let you know
that I'm a ham licensed in 1980 and inactive since 1985. I returned to this
hobby at the depths of the solar cycle, after moving to a spot that you'd
swear I had to solicit a professional terrain limited ("Longley-Rice")
coverage mapping and complete interference and population evaluation to find
a worse HF location. (No - I didn't know all that. I stole it from the web.
Originality has become mostly the ability to conceal your sources. Ooops.)
And how do I decide to return? QRP.

I hope I don't let you all down. Heck, as long as I'm off on a tangent, I
hope I don't hold you all up. Or if I do have to hold you all up, I hope I
catch you in small groups, in a dark alley, so it's harder to make a
positive ID. 

I could say more but could not, unfortunately, make less sense. I'll quit
now with a Fire-In-The-Belly Man Dance, facing each of the four directions
and shouting: SOC #603. SOC #603. SOC #603. SOC #603. SOC #603. (Did I spell
that right?)

72
Kip N6NVP
San Diego, CA
SOC #603 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: SOC HQ [mailto:soc at qsl.net]
> Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 8:31 PM
> To: Kip Williams N6NVP
> Subject: Re: SOC Membership
> 
> Hi Kip,
> 
> A very serious check of your membership application has been done by the
> SOC HQ
> and for some unknown reasons it seems that it has been approved.
> You are welcome in the Club and you are now known as SOC#630
> Pse check the Members' chart for any mistake.
> As requested, your email is listed.
> Your application text is one of the longest ever received here. You really
> deserve your SOC # :)
> Last but not least, welcome on the SOC Mailing List. I hope you will enjoy
> the
> trip! Feel free to introduce yourself !
> 
> 73/72!
> 
> The unknown SOC Secretary
> 
> http://www.qsl.net/soc
> 
> Competence is tolerated, but not encouraged
> I demand the right to make a fool of myself in any way I see fit
> 
> > Hi, I want a number too! My name is Kip Williams, my call is N6NVP and I
> do
> > want my email to be listed on the SOC web. I agree with the terms of
> > application and have understood that my SOC number will be sent only if
> I
> > make an entry in the SOC Guest Book.
> > I made the entry in the guestbook but I think I was lying on a couple of
> > things. Well, I can't really remember but knowing me as I do, I'll bet I
> > was. Of course, knowing me as I do, I'll bet they were the wrong things.
> The
> > smart op lies about using a Ten-Tec Jupiter when he's really on an Icom
> > IC-720A. I'll tell somebody my breakneck best CW is 6 wpm when it's
> really
> > 25. You tell me.am I SOC material?  And if I'm not - do you offer some
> sort
> > of intern, work-study, or apprenticeship program? How about a SOC
> > junior-grade?  And hey! If you don't currently offer anything, maybe I
> could
> > start something? Oh yeah - then you'd see Second Class Operation in all
> its
> > glory.
> >
> > 72
> > Kip Williams N6NVP
> > San Diego, CA
> >
> >