[SOC] What should radio amateurs do ?

[Ray Day]

Hey, wait.what? I thought the FISTS group was for people like me that used
their fist to pound that key-thing to send CW. I thought that's where the
term "pounding brass" came from. But I'm getting calluses and I have to
replace that key-thing every week or so. I tried a boxing glove for the
calluses problem, but it slows me down - a lot. And with the boxing glove,
I'm not sure I'll graduate to a squeeze keyer, ever (but I'm thinking of
using boxing gloves on both hands and pounding two separate key-things, one
for dits and one for dahs). 

 

A side benefit of my CW learning process is that when I rapidly chug beer,
the motion is the same as my way of sending CW, and I build stamina.

 

But I'm still learning, too. using my fist I've already mastered T, M, O,
and 0. And I can already tune my rig: DAH........ By next year I hope to
have mastered those pesky dits. I can send E but am still working on sending
I, S,H, and 5. With my call being N6HE, it may be a while til I actually get
on the air..

 

Three dits, four dits (expletive deleted), rah, rah, rah!

 

Ray N6HE

 

 

 

 

 

Sorry to say Dave, but you may already be overqualified on the morse front
:-p

 

Regards

 

John.

 

On 18 May 2016, at 12:20, "David Evans" <David.Evans at kirklees.gov.uk
<mailto:David.Evans at kirklees.gov.uk> > wrote:

 

> Given the Thread re-MGM (not the film co.) and MRM if I set up to be able
to do this can I join FISTS.

> 

> At the moment I can receive 0 to 9; n; ? r and k by ear, so I am
struggling to meet the already high standards required by SOC?

> 

> 88

> 

> -----Original Message-----

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> Quikhooligan via SOC

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> Subject: Re: [SOC] What should radio amateurs do ?

> 

> On 5/18/2016 1:11 AM, AL7JK John wrote:

>>  If I find out that I've been in communications with a non-human life 

>> form via ham radio . . . what should I do ?

> 

> Move your bandswitch away from 75 meter phone.

> 

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