[SOC] Fwd: An Alliance?

[AL7JK John]

Ya'll seem okay with me being active with the CBLA. I've put it
on job applications, "interests & hobbies". I spell it out for them
CBLA, Color Burst Liberation Army, 3579 khz.

73
AL7JK


On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 10:30 PM Quikhooligan via SOC <soc at mailman.qth.net>
wrote:

> On 10/17/2019 8:15 PM, Hans Brakob wrote:
>
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > News Release:
> >
> > QCAO Reorganizes
> >
> > de Danny, K7SS
> >
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------???
> >
> > The Quarter Century Appliance Operators was founded in the early 1950's
> by a small group of Amateur Radio operators from the Pacific Northwest.
> They had been active in their hobby for over 25 years, yet still lacked the
> basic knowledge of radio electronics and had no idea of how their equipment
> worked.
> >
> > They banded together to try and protect each others honor and pride. At
> radio gatherings and club meetings in the 1950s one was considered unworthy
> of the name Ham Radio Operator if he or she couldn't not only name
> components, but know how to solder them together and make a radio work, or
> fix a broken set!
> >
> > When faced with insults and derision, those few hardy pioneers banded
> together and formed the First Chapter and National Organization of the
> QCAO. This was known as the "Cold Solder" Chapter. They even coined the
> now-famous club byword "e pluribus ignoramae" which is Latin for "We don't
> have to know how to solder, we just wanna talk on our radios."
> >
> > No veterans of that first chapter are known to be active on the air
> today. In the late 1950s and early '60s, with the worldwide interest in
> science and space and technology, the QCAO membership went underground.
> >
> > It is with great pride and dignity that today in the 21st Century the
> revived QCAO stands ready to rise from the ashes, and become the standard
> of mediocrity it once proudly was. In honor of those first pioneering
> members, QCAO hereby invites all eligible applicants to step forward and
> join!
> >
>
> QCAO?  Really?  Think about it. To be a member in the early 50's you
> would have had to be a ham originally licensed from the late 20's. Were
> there many/any "appliances" available to operate back then?  Nope, there
> were very few appliance operators back then.  A group called Appliance
> Operators might have been formed in the 1950's and could then be
> rightfully called QCAO around 1975.  QST and 73 Magazine indexes have no
> mention of a QCAO club and Google has no record of any such organization.
>
> Of course this lack of visibility adds substance to the claim that the
> membership went underground during the subsequent years.  And only now,
> with the extremely low requirements for receiving a ham license, has the
> organization chosen to bring itself into the daylight and engage in an
> all out recruitment drive.  My only fear is that this re-blossoming of
> interest in Appliance Operating will lead to conflict with that other
> highly esteemed appliance operator organization, the "Appliance Operator
> and Owners League", known as the AOOL.
>
>
>
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