W8 Hotel Sugar Charlie - Romney, WV

[N3DRB The Derb]

Parker from Romney WV went SK some years back and I was working in the shack thinking about him, his R390, and his Apache. I went to go see him when I was driving the 1962 Mercury around.

There's no other point to this post except that I wanted to remind everyone of him. He was a good egg.

[W3RSW]

Yezh Derb,
Memories.

I think about w8jm occasionally too. (sk a long time now)    Seemed ancient in those days when I was a jn at Mountaineer ARA, Farimont.  Loaned me a DX35 and gave me an ARC5.  Sad day when he had to take back the 35 for another newer novice.  I was driving a '65 Dart then, nowhere near the cachet of your Merc.  The paint was worn off the driver's side window sill 'cause of all the arms leaning out.  No a/c then 

Well summer's almost here. - though colder over on this side of the mtn's .
Guess we gotta think sunnier thoughts.

[KA2PYQ]

W8HSC asked me for a `199 Tube for his RCA Radiola. I asked him if he
needed a UV socketed UV-199 or a UX socketed UX-199, he said UV.
I mailed him one. He was thrilled as much by how I packed it as by that
he got it. He said, "It was packaged like it was nitroglycerine." Yep,
no chance of buying another from the factory when they`re 70 years
old. I`m proud that I got the opportunity to do him that favor.

[KA2PYQ]

......Make that 60 years old. Math.

[N3DRB The Derb]

he built a homebrew rig inside of the 1950's Kelvinator refrigerator their family had after they go a new one. Used the cabinet as rack an mounted everything up on the shelves. showed me pictures of it. Looked pretty cool. You used the handle on the front to open the rig up.

he said the fridge kept all the transformers cold. 

[w4bfs]

did he still have room for the beer....imagine, both hot and cold 807's ..gnarly

[Steve - WB3HUZ]

Speaking of voices from the past, anyone remember

W2TOK - Ruddy from somewhere in upstate NY
W4VW - Ray in Virginia Beach, VA
W3CIC - Larry in Edgewater, MD

I'll think of more later (old buzzard brain lapse  ).

[kb3ouk]

What ever happeneed to the refrigerator/transmitter? I always wondered if anyone tried building a trans mitter in a refrigerator.
Shelby KB3OUK