[SOC] Ya'll going to Dayton ? ?/ OH REALLY!

Fri May 27 23:15:15 EDT 2016

I didn't realize SOC guys were authorized to use Morris Kode!

Dit dit

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On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 21:26 Louis Axeman via SOC <soc at mailman.qth.net>
wrote:

> Wore cap at Dayton this year that had a large pin sign on it that I got at
> Dayton twenty or so years ago.  It goes "No Code No Code Rah Rah Rah Three
> Dits Four Dits Two Dits Dah."  Picked up a Bunnell Western Union 2A Legless
> Hand Key in the flea market.  Gonna use it on the air in place of the J-37
> I now use.  Genus "Straight Key" consists of two Species, "Hand Key" and
> "Semi Automatic (Bug) Key."
>
> 73'Lou  N8LA
>
>     On Saturday, May 14, 2016 7:12 PM, Frank S. Tapley <
> cptflak at foxinternet.com> wrote:
>
>
>  Hey, those social'ite elitiests don't give one flop for a SOC. They don't
> even know who they are. They're afraid to admit SOC's are the better
> operators and handle a straight key like Wyat Earp did a six gun. They're
> so
> busy rubbing elbows with the DX'ers top billboards and digital cw reader
> boys that they ain't got a clue what a "real key" looks like, most of them
> anyway, unless they have one in a show case in their living room. Naw, its
> all hawmp and pawmp, look at me, I did this, and mercy on the scab kids
> with
> a single cheap rig, an old key and wire in the top of fir trees or Lilac
> bushes, baww hoop'T'poop.
>   Gotta live in the here and now where true radio supports the hobby. Those
> who love talking and sharing fish stores and swapping lies about finding
> mushrooms over the next hill etc. That's what radio is all about. I'll
> stick
> with SOC and the creative signatures of the metal hitting metal from two
> points of an old but good key. Besides, its fun.
>   Frank, SOC 1126, -- Bravo guys, lets here it for the SOC's, three cheers
> and a hooo'rah. Three dits four dits two dits dah, radiomen radiomen
> rah-rah-rah.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SOC [mailto:soc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of D.J.J. Ring,
> Jr.
> Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2016 1:22 PM
> To: Second Class Operators' Club
> Subject: Re: [SOC] Ya'll going to Dayton ? ?
>
> They did admit the SOC YLs in cutoff shorts and halter tops, they went to
> the bar where free happy hour was given to the best dressed CW operators.
>
> One SOC OM realized he had better eyesight than he realized as he named his
> dog "Nip & Tuck", and bought him a gin fizz.
>
> 73
>
> David N1EA
> On May 14, 2016 1:18 PM, "Frank S. Tapley" <cptflak at foxinternet.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Dayton, where is that? Is that a foerign country? They keep mention it
> > in QST but I thought it was another DX country or something where they
> > have giant DX-pedition? What language do they talk there,
> > Googleglish-flexbingly?
> > - It sounds like expensive trip just for free food. Besides, they
> > don't accept humans wearing hammerloop jeans and cut-off sleeve
> > flannel shirts and badly worn-out old hiking shoes with cow crap and
> > duck poop all over them.
> > -
> > I'm sure it is a foerign country.
> >    John, don't waste your time, go fishing instead. I am. But always
> > take the portable ham rig and wire for in the trees. More fun anyway.
> >    Frank.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: SOC [mailto:soc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of AL7JK John
> > Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2016 9:58 AM
> > To: Second Class Operators' Club
> > Subject: [SOC] Ya'll going to Dayton ? ?
> >
> >  I've never been myself, someday hope to make the pilgrimage to Ohio.
> >  From the rumors I've heard circulating here in Alaska about it,
> > there's banquets for each "group". Amsat, Qrp contester's, Dx'ers,
> > Arrl section mangers etc . . .
> >
> >  Is it true that the powers that be down there send us members of the
> > SOC over to a bunch of vending machines for our "banquet" supper ?
> >
> > de AL7JK, John
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