ADRS Contesters and DXers Dinner
Radisson Inn North Dayton
2401 Needmore Road
Dayton, Ohio
This year the ADRS will sponsor a contesters and DXers dinner
on Friday April 28th, in the Crystal Room. No host Cocktails
at 6:00pm and Dinner at 7:00pm. Ray Ortgiesen, WF1B will MC
the after dinner program. Speakers will be: Eddie G0AZT/W6 he
will have a slide show of their M/S Contesting efforts during
JARTS'94 Contest, and DX-Pedition to Guyana using call 8R1TT.
Ron AB5KD will have a slide show of K1NG's CQWW'94 contest
efforts to win Multi/Multi catagory.
Possibly, Ron KP2N will have a slide show of Island contesting
and maybe show a few slides of what a Hurricane can do to your
house and station!!! It should be interesting, to say the least.
Tickets cost is a mere $19.00 for dinner and program. Send Cash
Check or Money Order, your tickets will be sent promptly to you.
We hope this will start a Contesters and DXers traditional dinner.
73's
de Ron AB5KD
Ron Stailey
504 Dove Haven Dr.
Round Rock, Texas 78664-5926
>From Douglas S. Zwiebel" <0006489207@mcimail.com Sat Feb 18 01:05:00 1995
From: Douglas S. Zwiebel" <0006489207@mcimail.com (Douglas S. Zwiebel)
Subject: to sprint or not?
Message-ID: <42950218010524/0006489207PK3EM@MCIMAIL.COM>
} usual WEIRD methodology, here is a story which I feels is the
final answer on this topic:
The Rabbit felt mighty important that day
On top of the hill in the sun where he lay.
He felt SO important up there on that hill
That he started in bragging, as animals will
And he boasted out loud, as he threw out his chest,
"Of all of the beasts in the world, I'm the best!
On land, and on sea...even up in the sky
No animal lives who is better than I!"
"What's that?" growled a voice that was terribly gruff.
"Now why do you say such ridiculous stuff?"
The rabbit looked down and he saw a big bear.
"I'm best of the beasts," said the bear. "And so there!"
"You're not!" snapped the rabbit. "I'm better than you!"
"Pooh!" the bear snorted. "Again I say Pooh!"
You talk mighty big, Mr. Rabbit. That's true.
But how can you prove it? Just what can you DO?"
"Hmmmm..." thought the rabbit,
"Now what CAN I do...?"
He thought and he thought. Then he finally said,
"Mr. Bear, do you see these two ears on my head?
My ears are so keen and so sharp and so fine
No ears in the world can hear further than mine!"
"Humpf!" the bear grunted. He looked at each ear.
"You say they are good," said the bear with a sneer,
"But how do I know just how far they can hear?"
"I'll prove," said the rabbit, "my ears are the best.
You sit there and watch me. I'll prove it by test."
Then he stiffened his ears till they both stood up high
And pointed straight up at the blue of the sky.
He stretched his ears open as wide as he could.
"Shhh! I am listening!" he said as he stood.
He listened so hard that he started to sweat
And the fur on his ears and his forehead got wet.
For seven long minutes he stood. Then he stirred
And he said to the bear, "Do you know what I heard?
Do you see that far mountain...? It's ninety mile off.
There's a fly on that mountain. I just heard him cough!
Now the cough of a fly, sir, is quite hard to hear
When he's ninety mile off. But I heard it quite clear.
So you see," bragged the rabbit, "it's perfectly true
That my ears are the best, so I'm better than you!"
The bear, for a moment, just sulked as he sat
For he knew that his ears couldn't hear things like that.
"This rabbit," he thought, "made a fool out of me.
"
So he said to the rabbit, "You hear pretty well.
You can hear ninety miles. But how far can you smell?
I'm the greatest of smellers," he bragged. "See my nose?
This nose on my face is the finest that grows.
My nose can smell anything, both far and near.
With my nose I can smell twice as far as you hear!"
"You can't!" snapped the rabbit.
"I can!" growled the bear
And he stuck his big nose 'way up high in the air.
He wiggled that nose and he sniffed and he snuffed.
He waggled that nose and he whiffed and he whuffed.
For more than ten minutes he snaff and he snuff.
Then he said the rabbit, "I've smelled far enough."
"All right," said the rabbit. "Come on now and tell
Exactly how far is the smell that you smell?"
"Oh, I'm smelling a very far smell," said the bear.
"Away past that fly on that mountain out there.
I'm smelling past many great mountains beyond
Six hundred miles more to the edge of the pond."
"And 'way, 'way out there, by the pond you can't see,
Is a very small farm. On the farm is a tree.
On the tree is a branch. On the branch is a nest,
A very small nest where two tiny eggs rest.
Two hummingbird eggs! Only half an inch long!
But my nose," said the bear, "is so wonderfully strong,
My nose is so good that I smelled without fail
That the egg on the left is a little bit stale!
And that is a thing that no rabbit can do.
So you see," the bear boasted, "I'm better than you!
My smeller's so keen that it just can't be beat..."
"What's that?" called a voice
>From 'way down by his feet.
The bear and the rabbit looked down at the ground,
And they saw an old worm crawling out of the ground.
"Now, boys," said the worm, "you've been bragging a lot.
You both think you're great. But I think you are not.
You're not half as good as a fellow like me.
You hear and you smell. But how far can you SEE?
Now, I'm here to prove to you big boasting guys
That your nose and your ears aren't as good as my eyes!"
And the little old worm cocked his head to one side
And he opened his eyes and he opened them wide.
And they looked far away with a strange sort of stare
As if they were burning two holes in the air.
The eyes of that worm almost popped from his head.
He stared half an hour till his eyelids got red.
"That's enough!" growled the bear.
How far did you look and just what did you see?"
"Well, boys," the worm answered, "that look that I took
Was a look that looked further than you'll ever look!
I looked 'cross the ocean, 'way out to Japan.
For I can see further than anyone can.
There's no one on earth who has eyesight that's finer.
I looked past Japan. Then I looked across China.
I looked across Egypt; then took a quick glance
Across the two countries of Holland and France.
Then I looked across England and, also Brazil.
But I didn't stop there. I looked much further still.
"And I kept right on looking and looking until
I'd looked 'round the world and right back to this hill!
And I saw on this hill, since my eyesight's so keen,
The two biggest fools that have ever been seen!
And the fools that I saw were none other than you,
Who seem to have nothing else better to do
Than sit here and argue who's better than who!"
Then the little old worm gave his head a small jerk
And he dived in his hole and went back to his work.
...................and there you have it!
By the way, none of you know anything about skill until you've done
a serious qrp effort ;-)
de Doug KR2Q@mcimail.com
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