[SOC] NEW IDEA FOR SOC CONTEST:

[Curt Steger]

Time to finish restoring my old Collins KWM-2A for this contest. Might 
want to miss align an item or two, or maybe grunge up the relay a 
little. Anything to get a nice chirp or thunk on the signal.

Curt - NA7CS


On 8/2/2018 1:09 PM, cptflak at foxinternet.com wrote:
> Gather round ye'gentlemen and cohorts. The idea springs forth of the new,
> improved, and best contest EVER. '''the CHIRP QSO CONTEST.""
>
>    Say, now there is one for the books. A 12 hour period of old rigs
> hammering away with old keys from whatever time, pounding out the sounds of
> communication from a bygone era when half the old rigs were not a "9" in the
> Tone indicator of RST. And when every signal out of the USSR sounded so
> chirpy you thought your rig was bad because you got a 9 report.
>
>    AND THE WINNER: Would be the one who got the most OO reports. ( Of which I
> have a couple for chirping myself. Thanks to the Johnson Vik II and the
> sweetheart DX-40, which I dearly love with its VF1 enhancer.)  So much fun
> nobody should stop using them. If the AM gang can still use their stuff
> wiping out 20 khz of useable frequency with hetrodynes sounding like so many
> fat mosquotoes and driving us swat crazy, I see no reason why we old
> brasspounders can't send out a canary call on occasion.
>
>    And OO notices are great in a framed assembly next to the Rag Chewers club
> certificate, proving we honor the property of "talking to each other." (
> Which doesn't seem to be in vogue much these days. )
>
>     So any feedback on that idea. MAGA, CHIRP, BASEBALL AND APPLE PIE, GOD
> BLESS THE USA,,""FOREVER.""
>
>    Frank, WB7NZI.   ( Hey, I think Chirp sounds Patriotic, don't you? Even
> International patriotic in Ham lingo )
>
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