[SOC] SOC Booth at Dayton

[Joe Fischer]

Go inside and you can get a QLF certificate from FISTS.  Main reason I'm going to Hamvention.
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73 es 73 de Joe, W8JPF

> On May 15, 2016, at 13:14, Amateur Radio WB8NUT <duffy at wb8nut.com> wrote:
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> How about a contest sending CW with your left foot? 
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> Duffy
> www.wb8nut.com
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>> 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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