[ADXA] ADXA QSL Card - Jim Crowley

[Dennis Schaefer]

I had many ragchews with Jim on 80 CW back when I was in high school.   He was a good CW operator and I’m sure that helped increase my speed.  We also talked about DX quite a bit.  My dad worked at John Deere in Brinkley and knew Jim very well.   

I also got on sometimes with the group on 75 SSB, usually in the evenings.   The frequency I remember was 3.948.  Jim, Marion Pryor, Len Petrus, Sid Phillips, Quinnie, “Pardner” Clark, etc, were regulars.  Sid stopped by my house once when he was on a trip to Arkansas.   All good times!

73,
Dennis

> On Feb 26, 2019, at 11:45 AM, HamOP <k5yy1 at cox.net> wrote:
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> Joel, I bought all his equipment a few years after he passed, when I was practicing at the Hazen Clinic and usually ate with his wife once or twice a week as we watched “Days of Our Lives” that I have watched since 1970.. Stupid stuff, I know.
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> Years ago in the 60s and 70s, we had morning coffee meetings on 3817 I think it was. Usual check-ins were me (K5QHS), Larry W5HJA, Dick W5TIZ ( initial ADXA members) and Sid Phillips in Texas, Jim IRG,  a couple in the LR area, W5FUW in Stuttgart and Ed Moory in DeWitt. What discussions we had! Glad you got to meet him. I started at the clinic in 1997 as Med Director and physician. So missed you by 5 years of so.
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> Thanks info San. Yes Jim was a super nice guy. I visited his station a few times. Nice Collins S Line and as I recall he had a quad antenna. I heard my first Antarctica station sitting in his shack. I believe it may have been KC4USA back then, don't completely recall. Was probably around 1973 to 1975 time frame.
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> On 2019-02-26 09:28, HamOP wrote:
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> That WAS a sanctioned QSL and I myself ordered 200 and still have some up in the attic somewhere. Forgot who did them. But they were to be mass produced and a little thinner than usual to save costs. W5IRG was a good friend from Hazen. I think we all who ordered had to put in our order at the same time to help printer setup costs.
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> So, Jim was a member way back when. This would have been in the late 60s or very early 1970. He attended my talk on KS4 Swan Island in NLR in 1970 and was a close friend of Ed Moory in DeWitt who sold mostly Collins for decades. IRG was not that active and mainly a big farmer at the time, owning about 2000 acres of farmland all around Hazen.
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> See attached.
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> Do any of you long term ADXA folks recall if this was an ADXA
> "sanctioned" QSL card that was available or did Jim, W5IRG, just have
> the logo on his card??
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> I cannot remember, other than he had ADXA on his QSL card.
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