"Key Largo" wrote in message news:6kVgb.58222$Ms2.26974@fed1read03...
More old time DXers at URL:
http://home.swipnet.se/dx/porthole/index.htm

And the CQ Contest Hall Of Fame at URL:
http://cqww.com/hof-history.html
73 From Key Largo


INCLUDES Famous DXers
1923
DU7CC
VP2VB
W4BPD
BRS-3129
W9WNV

AARGH!!. . never mind . .

W6AM

W6AM tale: My second transmitter was a $29.95 Heathkit AT-1 I'd
cobbled together. The only FT-243 xtal I owned was 7.060. Xtals were
EXPENSIVE boy! Which when doubled put me on 14.120. Kinda useless freq
for dxing so I had to really scrounge for contacts. CQ, CQ, CQ, CQ ad
infinitum after school with all 3-5 watts of RF out or whatever it
was. Finally a CT1 found me and we latched up for several days
running. After some number of days another station called out of
nowhere, it was W6AM mobile running CW from his car. So 14.120 got to
be a three-way round table around 5pm Eastern Time for days on end. At
the time I had no idea who W6AM actually was except that his name was
Don and he was a really neat guy. I have a W6AM card.

K3ZO
ZS4TX
KV4AA
OH2BH

OH2BH/ZA. Tally ho!!

SMØAGD
P5/RØMEO
SMØCNS/4E7
SM1CNS
SM6CNS
SM6CNS/MM


The CQ Contest List
1. Hazzard "Buzz" Reeves, K2GL
2. Katashi Nose, KH6IJ

Good 'ole Hammer Fisti the Kamikazi of 80 & 40M

3. Al Slater, G3FXB
4. Martti Laine, OH2BH
5. Bernie Welch, W8IMZ
6. Leonard Chertok, W3GRF
7. W. Gerry Mathis, W3GM

Yeah, Gerry W3BES/W3GM. The radio god in these parts, my all-time
great mentor. EVERYBODY'S mentor, that's the way he was. I yakked with
Gerry on the club machine one day then found out he passed away two
days later. Dredge up QSTs from the late '40s and early '50s and check
the glossy back cover RCA power tubes division ads for a look at Gerry
himself and the collection of the gorgeous monster amps he designed
and built.

8. Frank Anazlone, W1WY
9. Jim Lawson, W2PV

.. . . talk about hammers . . !

10. Ed Bissell, W3AU
11. Fred Laun, K3ZO
12. Vic Clark, W4KFC
13. Rush Drake, W7RM
14. John Thompson, W1BIH
15. Atilano de Oms, PY5EG
16. Herb Becker, W6QD
17. Jim Neiger, N6TJ
18. Tine Brajnik, S50A
19. Dick Norton, N6AA
20. Ken Wolff, K1EA
21. Ville Hiilesmaa, OH2MM
22. Lew Gordon, K4VX
23. Bob Cox, K3EST
24. Carl Cook, AI6V
25. Gordon Marshall, W6RR
26. John Devoldere, ON4UN

In a class *all* by himself.

27. Jorge Humberto Bozzo, LU8DQ
28. John Dorr, K1AR

CQ never heard of HZ1HZ or what? And where is W3LPL please??

What kinda goofy list is this anyway??

w3rv