[ADXA] Pakistan confirmed

Wed Nov 25 11:17:13 EST 2020

Bill Moore K5HTF died in August 2013 at the age of 80.

Back in the early 70s I didn't go to ARVARF meetings and didn't know many
local hams until I got on 2 meters. I finished my HW-202 in 1975. It came
with crystals for 146.94 simplex. One of the first guys I worked was Bill.
He said he had extra crystals for 22/82 (Mt. Nebo) he'd give me if I wanted
to come down to Knoxville and I did.

Bill liked CW and chasing DX but he also liked to talk and since he worked
at home, he monitored the repeater all day and was a fixture there.  I
don't recall a lot of DXers in town in the 1975-80 time period. W5RZ hadn't
yet parachuted into Pope County, WB5BHS hadn't come out of hibernation,
WB5JJJ hadn't moved down from 6 meters. K5UR did move into town for a time,
doing some kind of legal and/or financial work at ANO. So I got a lot of
tips on 2 meters from K5HTF and K5UR.

I used to and still do put credits in my log for who turned me on to a new
country. So it'll say, "Tip: K5HTF", "Tip: K5UR", "Tip: W5RZ" or even "Tip:
ADXA".

73-

Nick, WA5BDU

On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 8:42 AM HamOP <k5yy1 at cox.net> wrote:

> Met K5HTF a few times at in-state ham events but last time was many, many
> years ago. I assume he passed away in the past 2-3 years. He would have
> been about 87 years old this year. TU for the great story Stan. And, I too
> remember the late 70s when we lived in LR and there was a gas shortage. We
> were only allowed 5 gallon maximum because of long lines, so we had to get
> 5 more gallons the next day and finally had a full tank by the 3rd day.
> Lot  of carpooling going on I remember.
>
> San
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> *From: *Stan Ross <k5vr.stan at gmail.com>
> *Sent: *Tuesday, November 24, 2020 10:13 PM
> *To: *Nick Kennedy <kennnick at gmail.com>
> *Cc: *ADXA <ADXA at mailman.qth.net>
> *Subject: *Re: [ADXA] Pakistan confirmed
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> Great story, Nick, about Bill. When I was just a young teenage ham, a
> couple of us drove down to Knoxville to hitch a ride to the Little Rock
> Hamfest. That was back in the 70s when the gas shortage was in full swing,
> so Bill gladly let us ride in his Mercedes!
>
>
>
> Somewhere along the way back, Bill discovered he needed some diesel and
> there wasn’t a station open anywhere. We ended up getting a gallon or two
> from a farmer willing to share some with Bill and we made it back to
> Knoxville.
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> I got to visit Bill later after he’d moved back to OKC on one of my work
> trips. He was always glad to have visitors, even after all those years.
> Sure miss him and many of the Elmers that are no longer with us.
>
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>
> 73,
>
> Stan
>
> K5VR
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Nov 24, 2020, at 8:11 AM, Nick Kennedy <kennnick at gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> George, I was hoping for a clean sweep in the CW SS but those pesky
> Canadians did me in too. Missed NL, NT and MAR.
>
>
>
> The Pakistan story reminded me of one of my DX stories. I don't have many
> since I'm just a dilettante / fair-weather DXer. But the weather was very
> fair for DX in July 1980. Pre-internet, we'd sometimes exchange spots over
> the Mt. Nebo repeater.
>
>
>
> Local DX chaser Bill, K5HTF called me up on 2 as he was working AP2MQ on
> 15 meter SSB. I can't believe he had the audacity, but he asks the guy,
> "Hey, will you listen for my buddy across town?  Oh, and he doesn't work
> phone, so do you have a key?"  I'd tuned to the frequency and in a little
> while I hear the guy calling me in medium slow CW on a straight key. I
> exchanged reports with him and put him in the log. I can only imagine how
> the other US stations waiting to work AP2MQ were fuming while all this was
> going on.
>
>
>
> But that's just part one of the story. Some time later, I received his QSL
> - but it's blank!  That threw me into an ethical quandary. OK, I know I
> worked him so I could just fill it out, but I think there's a hard rule of
> DX QSLing that says no blank QSLs. So I put it aside to ponder and a month
> or two later a second QSL arrived, this time filled out and signed. Problem
> solved.
>
>
>
> 73-
>
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> Nick, WA5BDU
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> On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 8:38 AM WB5JJJ <wb5jjj at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I know it's not a big deal to many of you, but on Sunday, I got
> confirmation on LoTW of a couple of contacts with AP2AM on 20m.  Of course
> they were the typical fish in a barrel, but FT8 did come through and moved
> me to 260 after sitting at 259 for most of this year.
>
>
>
> Hopefully before the end of the year, I will update my DXCC Standing with
> 1150 Challenge points.  Less than 10 to go.  If I could actually work some
> DX on160m, it might become really interesting.  But my noise level
> typically sits around S7 to S9 most nights.  Of course it was +20 until I
> finally tracked down a wall wart for POE about a month ago and removed from
> service.  Great price on that unit if anybody is interested.
>
>
>
> Not DXCC, but still. I did have fun with the ARRL SS (phone) this past
> weekend.  Managed to get yet another WAS and even a few Canadians.  Needed
> just five more of our northern brethren to make it a clean sweep.  Only
> heard PE and it was a huge pileup even when he ran by numbers.  Never did
> get him.  Didn't really try that hard either.  But NT, NL, MAR and QC (of
> all places) were not heard by me.
>
>
>
> Weather observations:  Major fog this morning in Russellville and mid
> 30's.  Had about .75" of rain Sunday morning.  Lots of leaves on the ground
> but the Oaks aren't turning loose as quickly as the pecans.
>
>
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> 73's
>
> George - WB5JJJ
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