In article , Radio Amateur KC2HMZ
writes:

John:

I see you live in Tonawanda, NY. I am a former Western New Yorker,
having been raised in the town of Alden. I wonder if you know my good
friend Pete Liaros, K2RSK?

Of course I do, he's very active on the airwaves in this area's 2m/440
repeaters and also operates mobile HF CW to boot. Also a fixture at
hamfests and the odd club meeting, too.

John:

Yes, indeed. I was one of the first to see the nifty HF antenna mount he
got made for his '94 Mercury Grand Marquis. I think we had breakfast the
day after it was done. I saw him last fall, and he still had that car!

If so, next time you see him or talk to him
on a local repeater, let him know you know me and I'm sure he'll tell
you all about me and how we met on 10-meters over 20 years ago!

You can hook up with him on 40m CW of course, but if you really want
to surprise him, get EchoLink and pop onto the WB2JPQ interlink system
here in western NY. Dick has his 146.835 machine connected to the
Echolink network. That machine's part of a system of linked repeaters
that covers most of this end of the state (from the Pennsylvania line
to well east of Rochester...farther when the temperature inversions
along the south shore of Lake Ontario duct the signals from the
Rochester area machine up into the Watertown area), and Pete is
frequently on one of the linked machines, when he isn't on the BARRA
link system chatting with Ted, WA2HKS.

I'll have to check that EchoLink thing out. All I know about it is how to
spell it. I occasionally E-mail to Pete, but he doesn't seem to read his
mail that often, or reply, for that matter.

Whenever I visit in the WNY area, I try to have breakfast with Peter --
pehaps you could join us sometime!

Then there is the matter of that roast beef sandwich you still have
coming...though I suppose if you'd prefer a comparably priced
breakfast...

Breakfast or lunch, it matters not to me! A Beef on Weck and a glass
of Genny would be a great way to enjoy some ham camaraderie.

Shoot for a Tuesday or Wednesday morning. Those are my two days off
work. Other days I work from 5AM to 1:30PM, so unless you're into
eating really late breakfasts, or want to make it lunch instead
(sending us back into roast beef territory)...........

OK, great. Like I said before, my next visit to the WNY area will
most likely be over the Thanksgiving holiday, if I can manage to take
some personal days off. I've pretty much given up on being home
for Christmas, due to the tendency to be forced to spend an
inordinate amount of time behind the snow blower! If I were to
ever move again, I think I'd just go to various places and walk
around carrying a snow shovel. As soon as someone asked me,
"What the heck is THAT?" -- I'd stop!

73 de Larry, K3LT