[SOC] Old 80 Meter CW Rag Chwe Net and SOC

[David Ring]

I was talking to Fergus YV1NX about the old 3513 kHz net - lots of
good operators - only two of that group left - but it plays into the
very foundation of SOC.

Gathered nightly on 3513 (or was it 3518?) were the following - all running QSK.

W4AX Dave Sheaffer
W4ZMQ Marvin Carter
K4FW - Al Kahn
W9TO - Jim Ricks
K4BI - Jim and I forget his name!
W4DA - Ceasar and what did we call him?  We worked for Delta Airlines.
YV1NX - even in the summer you sprang across the Caribbean - and I
copied you often up in W1 land.

That probably was the best collection of CW operators that ever was on
one frequency.  Marvin was a typing champ and typed CW at 55 wpm, W9TO
could do about the same.

We were in good company weren't we?

All but K4BI and W9TO were FOC operators - W4AX and W4ZMQ were two of
my sponsors.

Because W9TO had never been invited to FOC, Marvin W4ZMQ came up with
SOC - the Second Class CW operators club - which still exists today.
Marvin used to sign his social security number after he sent "Both
SOC" - like the FOC boys do!

What a gas!

73

David Ring, N1EA
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