[SOC] Bug Addiction

[AL7JK John]

 I bailed out yesterday when the A index hit 22, 20 mtrs got way to quiet.
Turned on my 2mtrs/70cm all mode rigs, started pounding brass up there, keep
thinking someday during periods disturbed geomagnetic conditions. I'll
hear some long delayed echos from another time period or they'll
hear my signal.
 Its not likely that I'm gonna become a role model for anybody anytime soon.

72/73 de AL7JK, John



On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 1:34 PM, Jim Larsen <jimlarsen2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
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