[SOC] SOC and Woody Allen

[Brian Hemmis]

Actually it was Groucho Marx...

On Jan 12, 2010, at 6:43 PM, Charles Harpole wrote:

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> Charles Harpole k4vud at hotmail.com 
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>> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:30:36 +0700
>> From: sm3dyu at ji-net.com
>> To: w6dtw at arrl.net; soc at mailman.qth.net
>> Subject: Re: [SOC] SOC #896
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>> Our "Big Brother FOC" seems to be the template for membership in CWops 
>> and as a matter of fact a number of the so called "Charter members" are 
>> actually also members of FOC. I was invited to join ranks with the 
>> Charter members, based on my previous profession as a ships radio 
>> officer. Needless to say, membership in SOC and CWops do not go together 
>> well, one sort of defeats the other! Membership in FOC requires that one 
>> members dies first, so that in essence means that the new member is just 
>> filling an empty pair of shoes. Not a recommendable way of getting fresh 
>> blood into ham-radio. If the wait is too long, new aspiring members 
>> might resort to force!
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>> As I declined the invitation from CWops, I hopefully will remain 
>> "SOC-ed" and not "FOC-ed".
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>> Btw, nice blog, David!
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>> Sam HS0ZDY
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>> David W6DTW wrote:
>>> Hi folks,
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>>> Just joined SOC; somehow my application made it through screening. Ha!
>>> Joke's on you. My CW is at best 3rd class...
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>>> What brought me here was a couple of things. First off my friend Chris
>>> K6DBG is a member. Second was that after last week's NAQP contest someone
>>> was suggesting that I should check out CWops; he apparently didn't actually
>>> hear me sending code. I was in the process of writing an article entitled
>>> "Shooting Ourselves In The Foot : Amateur radio's culture of exclusion" and
>>> the whole CWops membership process was like a gift from God; a perfect
>>> example of what I was trying to say. 
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>>> http://sparqi.blogspot.com/2010/01/shooting-ourselves-in-foot-amateur.html
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>>> So in contrast to CWops, and knowing about SOC through Chris, I offered you
>>> folks as an example of the right way to create a community. The Unknown
>>> Secretary pointed me to the mailing list archive; looks like I'm not the
>>> only one who has an opinion about CWops. 
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>>> And in a moment of weakness I sent in my application for membership. Now
>>> you're stuck with me. 
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>>> Best,
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>>> ...dtw
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>>> ---
>>> David T. Witkowski
>>> w6dtw at arrl.net
>>> : Twitter = W6DTW
>>> : IRLP = 3802
>>> : Echolink = 314933
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