Hello Sean.

<On 25Apr2019 18:31 Sean Dennis (1:18/200) wrote a message to Marc Lewis
regarding SK >

 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.  

If I had a license...

73
Marc

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