Subj : Re: SK To : Sean Dennis From : Marc Lewis Date : Thu Apr 25 2019 22:58:37 Hello Sean. ML> This one moved me tremendously since we were such close friends. It ML> really hurts. ;-/ SD> It always does. I lost two of my good ham friends, both elmers, a SD> while back. Unfortunate, but I'm afraid it's the price we all pay eventually... Doesn't make it any easier to take, though. ML> 73 ML> Marc SD> I didn't know you were a ham? Wish I were. Been around them all my life and miss quite a few of them that have left our earthly domain now. Short story: Back in the 50's we lived in the Naval Housing Project in San Juan, PR. There were at least a half-dozen hams in the project. There was one that lived across the street who had a what seems to be enormous CW rig in the front room; I was always fascinated at going over and watching. I remember he was a "speed demon" on the key and could de-code just as fast as he was in Naval Communicaitons. The old rig he used had big finals behind a screened enclosure and gasseous regulator tubes that had that errie purple glow to them (probably like 0D3's or 0C3's). Fred Hatfield if I recall correctly... no telling what his callsign was; that was 60+ years ago. SD> Man, I need to get a good antenna up. We should start an 80M net SD> sometime. :D If I had a license... 73 Marc .... Rhetorical questions: Who needs them? --- timEd/2 1.10.y2k+ * Origin: Sursum Corda! BBS-Huntsville,AL-bbs.sursum-corda.com (1:396/45) .