[SOC] SOC Booth at Dayton

[David Evans]

I seem to remember a WW2 film involving the French resistance, where in order to avoid detection the radio operator drove round in a horse drawn wagon sending with his left foot.

Be careful what you wish for - it may already have been....

72.5 G0eva david

-----Original Message-----
From: SOC [mailto:soc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Amateur Radio WB8NUT
Sent: 15 May 2016 18:15
To: Second Class Operators' Club
Subject: Re: [SOC] SOC Booth at Dayton

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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> **********************
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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 . . .
>
> 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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