[SOC] SOC Booth at Dayton

[Amateur Radio WB8NUT]

How about a contest sending CW with your left foot? 

Duffy
www.wb8nut.com

> On May 15, 2016, at 12:57 PM, Ray Day <rayday at cox.net> wrote:
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> John,
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> The SOC Booth at Dayton could have a Wet T-Shirt Contest, too...to see who
> could submit to the Judging Committee the grungiest old ham-related
> (wet)(i.e., beer-soaked) t-shirt during the Dayton Hamvention. First Place
> prize: department-store female mannequin to wear the "winning" wet t-shirt.
> Second Place prize: a real female to wear the "winning" t-shirt. Pictures,
> of course.you don't get to take home the real female. Mannequin, maybe. Or
> an "inflatable doll?"
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> Also: a "crappiest code sent with a bug" contest. To win (?), at least one
> OOTC (and SOC) member would have to copy most of what was sent by the
> contestant. Endorsement stickers for remembering who you know/knew that
> sends/sent CW most like the winning (?) entry.
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> Or a contest to see, from a standing start at the SOC Booth, who could be
> the quickest to put together a working CW transmitter from parts gotten from
> the flea-market people. Bonus points for it being on a piece of plywood with
> fahnestock clips, sliding-scale for chirp (more chirp = higher points), etc.
> More than one tube would be considered showing off and points would be
> subtracted. Bonus points for inhaling lead-tin solder smoke during the
> process. Offers from the ARRL kids' Let's Build Something area to show kids
> how they could build one like yours would be considered a "SOC Youth
> Recruiting" bonus, too.
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> Sooooooo...who's gonna be the sucker, er, um, volunteer to do this?
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> 73,
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> Ray N6HE
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>  " Hmmmm...who wants to create and man a SOC Booth at Dayton? "
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> 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 . . .
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> Earlier today attended the Matanuska Ham club hamfest held in Wasilla, there
> was talk of a wet tee shirt competition, check it out.
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> http://www.kl7jfu.com/
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> Sarah Palin didnt show up :(
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> 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.
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> de AL7JK, John
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