[SOC] Bug Addiction

[Jim Larsen]

I have pulled out a 1950s bug but it needs restoration of its electrical
connections.  All contacts are seriously corroded and even the other parts
that complete the circuit are dirty.  It will mostly likely take a tear
down, clean and rebuild.  I will get to it as after 50 years on the air I
am finally ready to give a big a try.  I suspect I be like an artist, as
Hans puts it, at least at first, but I do like a clean fist and will work
towards that goal.  I feel the same about my fist on a straight key.  I am
up in the QRP part of 20 meters with my original Novice straight key (1965)
working the Sasquatch Stomp today.  Bands are not good to us up here north
of 61 degrees.  At least not today.  So far I am working them at a 2 Q per
hour clip as long as I get one more QSO in the next half hour.  :-)

73, Jim, AL7FS
SOC #003

Jim Larsen, AL7FS
Anchorage Alaska
1-907-223-3548
http://www.CSTAlaska.com/   Craniosacral Therapy
http://www.AL7FS.us/             QRP Website



On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 1:10 PM, Radio KØHB <kzerohb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Maybe I’m too SOC, but if I send with a bug, I make it a point to add my
> own “empasis” to the code, deliberately trying NOT to sound like a sterile
> machine.  Like an artist modulating his brush strokes to put his mark on a
> landscape.
>