[SOC] Bill Windle QSO Party

[Ian C. Purdie]

Fred Jensen wrote:
> Many dug their hearts out in the river gravels to find the yellow metal
> said to be there.  Few actually did find it.  A number of others figured
> out that there was more money to be made selling things to those who
> were digging their hearts out than actually doing the digging.

Not often known, but it is also the reason Australian soldiers refer to
one another as "digger". Partially due to our gold rush years and
partially to digging trenches during WW1.

Fred, clearly you are a man after my own heart.

>They borrowed very liberally -- "E Clampus Vitus."  They adopted
> a very democratic and human-spirited motto:  "Everyone is entitled to an
> office of equal indignity."

I'm very pleased to have been enlightened.
> SOC may have roots none of us know about.  I can make record copy on a
> mill or computer keyboard on W1AW @ 35WPM.  CW was burned into my brain
> as a 16 yr old.  I know a guy who could copy 50WPM and write it down
> afterward.  I can't copy 60WPM or even really hear it.  I am not FOC
> material, and I know it.  With any luck, the rest of my incompetence in
> life will keep me in SOC, which is for me the ECV of ham radio.

Myself also Fred. My Dad of course could do 60 wpm but then again he was
an old time naval telegraphist from the olden day mould of WW1 when that
was the leading edge of communication.

All the best mate.


72/73's

Ian C. Purdie
Budgewoi N.S.W. Australia - Co-ords S33°14', E151°34'
VK2TIP "I'll give ya the TIP mate" QRP-L #1978. SOC #171 FP#91
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