[SOC] Ya'll going to Dayton ? ?

[AL7JK John]

  " Hmmmm...who wants to create and man a SOC Booth at Dayton? "

 Howdy Ray ! Oh man your getting me all wound up. Was rite in the
middle of a google image search (dayton hamfest keys) started drooling
at all the key photo's, tables of 'em. Wow . . .
 Earlier today attended the Matanuska Ham club hamfest held in
Wasilla, there was talk of a wet tee shirt competition, check it out.
http://www.kl7jfu.com/
 Sarah Palin didnt show up :(

 20 mtrs is way too quiet for a Saturday evening, only cw stn I'm hearing
is XE2HOE, worked him he's not that far from Cabo San Lucas.

de AL7JK, John

On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 5:27 PM, Ray Day <rayday at cox.net> wrote:

> Hey guys,
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>
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> 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..
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>
>
> All in the spirit of "Festivus For The Rest Of us."
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>
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> Long live Second Class Operators!
>
>
>
> 73
>
> Ray N6HE
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