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September 11th 04, 01:14 AM

(Brian Kelly) wrote in message m...
(William) wrote in message . com...
(Len Over 21) wrote in message ...
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(William) writes:

Cecil is off in other newsgroups. I'm sure he got sick and tired
of the PCTA regulars in here. :-)

Welp, he tried to appease them by joining in one of their CW nets, but
they still crapped on him. Then he joined them, but was so distraught
by that action he left the group.

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BULL**** you lying and utterly inconseqential Putzlet!!!
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I see that civil discourse is raging throughout RRAP. Hi, hi!

You really do need to pop for that tome on "recovering from assholism"
and read it as many times as it takes to get it's message.

As if . . !

As if you're still studying it.

It was Cecil himself who triggered the one-shot RRAP CW net in the
winter of 2001. Cecil posted that Larry Roll failed to show up for a
couple CW skeds they'd arranged since Larry had challenged Cecil's
claim to being CW conversant.

Cecil appeared to be an upstanding guy.

I jumped in at that point and tossed out
a proposal for any and all RRAP lurkers able to do so to gather around
7.037 Mhz some night or another so that Cecil could firmy establish
the fact that he's CW-capable. Which he did and we did. In spades.

But, but, but...

you said that Cecil hisself triggered the net. Then you say you
proposed it.

Hmmmm?

Cecil suffers a sort of palsy which makes using any sort of keying
widget difficult to operate so he uses a straight key. He showed up on
the freq during a nasty T-storm that nite but never missed a lick.

So you figger he was lying about the palsy or what?

Net result has been a helluva lot of ongoing respect for Cecil's CW
and technical skills and doggedness amongst us PCTAs.

You don't make any sense at all. You dogged him for years for not
being a PCTA.

He switches and then he's Golden! with fond, fond memories posted
below.

You ought to stand back and read what you just posted.

In refutation of your bull**** the following were posts tossed out by
some well-known hardcore RRAP PCTAs after that net happened.

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At 1010PM EST Feb 27 W3RV called the first session of the RRAP CW
Net.

Checking in were;
W3RV Brian- NCS
W0EX Dick
AC6XG Jim
K0HB Hans
N2EY Jim
W6RCA Cecil

All signals were good in spite of considerable QRM and some QRN from
early spring thunderstorms in the South. Cecil W6RCA reported
thunderstorms in his area (southeast Texas), with sparks in the
hamshack! That had to be noisy, and risky too. Gutsy guy, our Cecil.
None of that for me!

Jim AC6XG initially was weak (549 here) and W6RCA wasn't able to copy
through the storm static, but the skip distance on 40 meters changed
and
his signals improved (to 569 here) and all stations made direct
contact
with each other.

The same band change caused N2EY and W3RV (both in E.Pa.) to shift
signal levels. Initially W3RV had been considerably stronger than N2EY
but changing band conditions nearly reversed their signal levels as
received in Missouri. That's a phenomena that occurrs on 40 meters
when
two close stations work a distant station and propagation shifts
occur.

Anyone who thinks that "CW is dead" should have heard the clamor
between 7035 and 7040, with a PACTOR signal occupying 7038-7040 for a
time. I wondered for awhile, before the announced time, whether or not
we would be able to find a free slot in the activity. Fortunately the
PACTOR station left the air and we took that frequency.

Hey Jones, why didn't you check in??? g

(Dick WØEX)
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Nope, wasn't me tuning up on frequency.

I think we ought to make the net a regular event, 03:00 UTC WED (TUE
local) 7.038MHz (=/- QRM).

Best signal: W0EX

Best bug: N2EY

Best straight key: W6RCA

Cecil -- if your feedlines are sparking from an electrical storm, it's
time to evacuate the radio room! dit dit 73, de Hans,

K0HB

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"Brakob, Hans" wrote:

Nope, wasn't me tuning up on frequency.

I think we ought to make the net a regular event,
03:00 UTC WED (TUE local) 7.038MHz (=/- QRM).

The local ham group here meets one Tues night a month, otherwise I'm
in.

Best signal: W0EX

Tnx! I gess we had a pipeline, you were stoutest here as well. You win
the power prize, though. My Icom was barefoot.

Best bug: N2EY

Yes...

Best straight key: W6RCA

ditto

Cecil -- if your feedlines are sparking from an electrical storm,
it's time to evacuate the radio room!

Yep...I'm afraid I would have been AWOL and hust put up with the
flak...But it was good to work you, Cecil. Nice signal, too.

Dick

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w3rv

You guys dogged the poor ******* so much that he risked his property
and his life to prove that he was Morse Worthy.

You guys ought to be proud.