[ADXA] More remote ham memories

[HamOP]

More memories, Dennis. The first freq we used in the late 1950s and thru the mid 60s was 3937 I think. We changed a couple of times during the years, but the first was below 3948. I was wrong to say 38xx, we never went that low. Hi
Len Petrus was another Hazen guy, I had forgotten about him. Think was K5GMG. But after 62 years of ham radio you forget way too much… The initial group I mentioned were mainly morning yaking sessions, not many showed in the evening. Ken Copeland was one of the early guys I forgot to mention. I might go back to log books #3 and 4 and see whomever else I forgot. TU for other names like Marion Pryor and Pardner Clark… 
San  

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From: Dennis Schaefer
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 4:45 PM
To: HamOP
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Subject: Re: [ADXA] ADXA QSL Card - Jim Crowley

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:
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.
 
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.
San
 
 
 
 
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Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 10:45 AM
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Subject: Re: [ADXA] ADXA QSL Card
 
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.
ZN
On 2019-02-26 09:28, HamOP wrote:
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.
 
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. 
San
 
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From: w5zn at w5zn.org
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Subject: [ADXA] ADXA QSL Card
 
See attached.
 
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??
 
I cannot remember, other than he had ADXA on his QSL card.
 
ZN
 
 
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