[CQ-Contest] The Humor of it all....

[chetmoore at cox.net]

Terrific idea,    while we are at it  lets have that contest be the very first contest on the WARC bands.   They warc bands have been way under utilized for far too long.  Hand key?    Hmmmmm is that something like a church key??

Chet
---- N7MAL <N7MAL at CITLINK.NET> wrote: 
> This 'thread', whatever 'thread' means, I always thought it was what my 
> mother and wife used to sew with, at any rate, this thread and it's side 
> threads have become entirely to serious. What we need is a contest to 
> relieve the tension. Since there is no big one on the horizon let's make 
> one.  There is an operating event in 2 weeks that I would venture to guess 
> most of you reading this do not have the equipment, or skills to participate 
> in. We need to take a break from all these high, lofty, clouds and come back 
> down to basics, if just for a few hours. Participate in Straight Key Night. 
> Some of these top tenners, whose stuff apparently don't stink, need to have 
> a humbling experience and in this hobby there is nothing more humbling than 
> a straight key. Why not prove how much of a 'top tenner' you really are by 
> showing everyone you know your A, B, C's. In other words you know, by hand, 
> how to send something other than 5NN. This next part will scare the 
> be-geebers out of some folks but turn your computer off for a night, turn 
> your amp off for a night, log on a sheet of paper, set your own goals, and 
> send Morse code the old-fashioned way, by hand with a straight key(if you 
> even can).
> HAPPY HOLIDAYS
> 
> 
> MAL
> N7MAL
> BULLHEAD CITY, AZ
> http://www.ctaz.com/~suzyq/N7mal.htm
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Mark Beckwith
>   To: cq-contest at contesting.com
>   Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 12:37
>   Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] The Humor of it all....
> 
> 
>   > I brought it up twice, Mark, because you missed my point TWICE.
>   >
>   > Now I'm bringing up again, because you missed my point AGAIN.
> 
>   Um, Hans, We've known each other for a long time, right?  I just re-read 
> all
>   your recent posts to try and figure out if I deserved all this abuse, or 
> if
>   there really was something I was missing, and concluded you haven't been
>   fishing enough recently.  Maybe we should revisit this over the summer?
>   We're obviously not connecting on it.
> 
>   The Humor of it all....
> 
>   Mark
> 
>   dit dit
> 
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