[SOC] QCAO reorganization

Tue Oct 29 15:17:49 EDT 2013

I love to join new (Old) organizations and was not aware of this one but i so very much want to join. However i will hove to learn to not show my vast knowledge, I have fixed radios, i do know how they work and have in fact built a transmitter from scratch in the 1920s style. (see it on my QRZ page.) while i do spend most of my time on the radio using an appliance (K3) i did build it from the kit.  I also and quite good at sending CW  (Morse code) with a straight key. I know that most of this would tend to keep me as unqualified for this club but then with my incredible briliance and awesome skills as an Amateur Radio operated i certainly would not qualify as a member of SOC. (The membership team was so incompetent that they did not notice me slip into the membership rolls.

Barry

NF1O

SOC # ???

> From: kzerohb at gmail.com
> To: soc at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 19:06:28 +0000
> Subject: [SOC] QCAO reorganization
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> News Release:
> 
> QCAO Reorganizes
> 
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> The Quarter Century Appliance Operators was founded in the early 1950's by a 
> small group of Amateur Radio operators from the Pacific Northwest. They had 
> been active in their hobby for over 25 years, yet still lacked the basic 
> knowledge of radio electronics and had no idea of how their equipment 
> worked.
> 
> They banded together to try and protect each others honor and pride. At 
> radio gatherings and club meetings in the 1950s one was considered unworthy 
> of the name Ham Radio Operator if he or she couldn't not only name 
> components, but know how to solder them together and make a radio work, or 
> fix a broken set!
> 
> When faced with insults and derision, those few hardy pioneers banded 
> together and formed the First Chapter and National Organization of the QCAO. 
> This was known as the "Cold Solder" Chapter. They even coined the now-famous 
> club byword "e pluribus ignoramae" which is Latin for "We don't have to know 
> how to solder, we just wanna talk on our radios."
> 
> No veterans of that first chapter are known to be active on the air today. 
> In the late 1950s and early '60s, with the worldwide interest in science and 
> space and technology, the QCAO membership went underground.
> 
> It is with great pride and dignity that today in the 21st Century the 
> revived QCAO stands ready to rise from the ashes, and become the standard of 
> mediocrity it once proudly was. In honor of those first pioneering members, 
> QCAO hereby invites all eligible applicants to step forward and join!
> 
> The benefits of QCAO include not only the pride of membership. Think of the 
> warm glow you will feel at club meetings and gatherings showing off your new 
> all-plastic imprinted QCAO pocket protector! And that's not all! For your 
> minimal membership fee, you will also receive a handsome, 
> suitable-for-framing, certificate of honor, with hand-lettered name and 
> Charter Membership Number. Other QCAO memorabilia will soon be available for 
> members, including T-shirts, caps,pins, etc. At this date charter membership 
> numbers are still available. Membership requires a 25 years (more or less) 
> interest in Amateur Radio, coupled with a basic ignorance of how radios work 
> and how to repair them.
> 
> Think of meeting other QCAO members on the air! No more embarrassing pauses 
> when someone in the QSO mentions an RF choke or a parasitic bleeder...Be 
> able to exchange meaningful sharing, talk about real things, yes, even swap 
> QCAO numbers with each other! And soon perhaps . . . a worldwide QCAO 
> contest!
> 
> You no longer have to shrink to the back of the room at post-meeting 
> sessions of your radio club. Just display your QCAO protector and others 
> will be able to identify you immediately. Who knows? Perhaps one of the 
> originals from that old QCAO Chapter is just waiting for you to find him. 
> Join now! Remember "We don't have to know how to solder, we just wanna talk 
> on our radios"! Don't let technoids embarrass you and kick jargon in your 
> face. Stand up for what's right! Join QCAO!
> 
> "e pluribus ignoramae"
> 
> (Thanks, Danny K7SS)
> 
> 73, de Hans, K0HB
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