Re: LF: QRSS origin

[Rik Strobbe <rik.strobbe@fys.kuleuven.ac.be>]

Mike,

very tricky.
Assuming one accepts evolution there was an egg before there was a
chicken. But the egg wasn't a chicken-egg (it was the egg of some kind of
pre-chicken). The first chicken-egg however was laid by the first
chicken. So the egg was there before the chicken but the chicken was
there before the chicken-egg.
For those who don't accept evolution it more simple : the chicken is
first mentioned in Noë's arch, the chicken-egg at the Last Supper. So the
chicken was there first.

Now back to LF ...

73, Rik  ON7YD

At 19:34 15/08/2004 -0500, you wrote:
> I vote for the chicken. Where else
> would the egg come from? :-D 
>
> Later,
>
> -- 
> Mike
> WE0H
> WD2XGI
>
>
> Dexter McIntyre W4DEX wrote:
> > Mike Dennison wrote:
> >  
> > > I originated the term QRSS many years ago in an e-mail to
> > > this group. 
> > >
> > > The helpful addition of the number to denote the dot length
> > > came much later when slower speeds became popular for
> > > working DX, but I don't know its origin.
> > >    
> >
> > I recall a discussion about how to best specify the QRSS speed on the
> > Lowfer mail list.  This must have been over 5 years ago.  I
> > looked for
> > the message archives on qth.net but the messages prior to 2000 are not
> > there.  John, W1TAG, was the first I remember to use the QRSS(#)
> > term. 
> > About the same time Alberto released a new version of Argo or Spectran
> > which included the QRSS speed.  Also I don't know which came first,
> > the
> > chicken or the egg.
> >
> > W4DEX
> >
> >
> >