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    JOTA this weekend

    the boy scouts jamboree on the air is this weekend.


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    Oh cool! Is that the once every 4 years Jamboree? Never been to one but never missed the regional yearly Camporee when I was a kid in scouts. I happened on the shack, a tent, where an OF had a couple of old BA's and his HT, a brick.
    I had already been an avid BCBDXer at the time and I thought he was BS'ing me with talk of double and triple superhetrodyne until he was able to associate the correct cities with the station call letters I was throwing at him. Then we started talking propagation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kb2crk View Post
    the boy scouts jamboree on the air is this weekend.


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    Wow, someone else besides me who doesn't hold the BSA in high esteem. That's a relief. Sometimes it seems that everybody ranks that organization right below the Second Coming in holiness but my personal experience with the the Boy Scouts leads me to believe that they actually came from the other direction.
    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.

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    Get hold of yourself, Carlo, before one of those scoutmasters does.


    Oh, wait. You're too old. Sorry, OM.






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    Quote Originally Posted by W3MIV View Post
    Get hold of yourself, Carlo, before one of those scoutmasters does.



    Oh, wait. You're too old. Sorry, OM.
    Too old and too ugly. Never thought there would be an advantage to that.


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    What bands are you working? I've been monitoring 20m but it's been very quiet here on the Left Coast.
    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KJ6BSO View Post
    Wow, someone else besides me who doesn't hold the BSA in high esteem. That's a relief. Sometimes it seems that everybody ranks that organization right below the Second Coming in holiness but my personal experience with the the Boy Scouts leads me to believe that they actually came from the other direction.
    I have a hard time deciding if the BSA is the indoctrination wing of the Church, or the Republicans. Maybe both?
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    Quote Originally Posted by KJ3N View Post
    I have a hard time deciding if the BSA is the indoctrination wing of the Church, or the Republicans. Maybe both?
    Yes, both as far as I can tell. Therein lies the root of my problem with them, which started early on. I left after less than a year because I just couldn't take the heat anymore. A friend with far more gumption than I stuck it out all the way until he made Eagle Scout, then told our crypto-fascist Scoutmaster, literally, "Fuck off, Lyle." I really admired him for that. But I've been suspicious of the BSA and their motives ever since.
    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KJ6BSO View Post
    What bands are you working? I've been monitoring 20m but it's been very quiet here on the Left Coast.
    I have been working both 17m and 20m. I am about to try the BS gimmick that sends your call out ahead of the trace. It you scout out 20m let me know if you see me.
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    I just checked PSK Reporter and the gray line is mid-ocean and nearing the East Coast. I have worked as far west as TX -- though I saw Virgil in Williston ND working strongly in my waterfall, so the West will be opening soon.
    73 de Albi

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