[SOC] NEW IDEA FOR SOC CONTEST:

[Terry Coker]

As a new member I'm in tears of appreciation for this group.  I pray I can
be "Second Class."

On Fri, Aug 3, 2018, 11:33 AM Curt Steger <csteger515 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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