[SOC] Ya'll going to Dayton ? ?

[Ray Day]

Hey guys,

 

I'm a "Gotta-Go-To-Dayton-At-Least-Once" proponent. Went once, maybe twice
in 52 years as a ham. But I still smile when I remember what I saw there.
Pedestrian-Mobile 500W-In-A-Backpack Guy, EVERYBODY wearing a handheld (who
are those guys - are they hams?), seems like a square mile of flea market
stuff, guys selling funny homebrew solutions to problems you forgot you
wanted to solve, The-Weirdest-Ham(s)-You've-Seen-In-Your-Life will be there,
some guys you've been working on the air for 50 years and haven't physically
met yet, "Big Hair" ladies with a 2M ground plane in there,
disabled-people's electric scooters with mobile rigs attached, seeing very
expensive radios that now you understand why you like your 20 (30?)-year old
rig just fine, great conversations with booth people, an opportunity to buy
5 or 6 versions of your first rig (DX-20, Globe Chief, .) ..

 

Hmmmm...who wants to create and man a SOC Booth at Dayton?   ..now *that *
would be fun! Crooked signs, QSL's from SL1M, Awards for *not* working 100
States/Countries/Left-handed albino spider monkeys, etc. Pictures of
RF-burned lips or burnt-off moustaches, underground antenna classes..you get
the idea.. 

 

All in the spirit of "Festivus For The Rest Of us." 

 

Long live Second Class Operators!

 

73

Ray N6HE