[ADXA] Joel and Stan started this fiasco so we real old timers must finish it

Thu Sep 24 17:43:17 EDT 2020

Hmmm... only 62 including SWL days... 51 licensed... a relative newcomer
compared to the real OT'ers!  Still the greatest hobby! 73 Rick AI5P

On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 3:10 PM HamOP <k5yy1 at cox.net> wrote:

>   You bring the white wine, I’ll bring the red. Oh, we need crackers of
> some sort and cashew nuts and some dip and ….. etc.  Heck, just hope we are
> here Bill in another year when this “50 Year” event happens… I’ll start
> wearing a mask during my sleep too, just to make sure.
>
>   Oh, and I will have Melinda get in her Razorback Head Majorette outfit
> and do some twirling for us and Kathy can sing for the group. But,
> attendees will only be those with 50 years in ham radio as a licensee.
> Perhaps 7-8 ADXA members will show up. Joel, see what you and Stan
> started!  Maybe we can start a “60 Year Club” Bill??? 😊
>
> San
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> *From: *Bill Priakos <bill at priakos.com>
> *Sent: *Thursday, September 24, 2020 3:12 PM
> *To: *HamOP <k5yy1 at cox.net>; w5zn at w5zn.org; Stan Ross
> <k5vr.stan at gmail.com>
> *Cc: *adxa <adxa at mailman.qth.net>
> *Subject: *RE: [ADXA] Joel's upcoming article in our newsletter ..
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> WOW and here I am at just past the 65 YEAR MARK, February 4th – Y I K E S
> ! !
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> Yes, let’s party! 😊
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> Bill
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> W5SJ
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> *Bill Priakos*
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> *10 Free Ferry Heights*
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> *Fort Smith, AR 72903*
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> *479.461.8368*
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> *From:* adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net <adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net> *On
> Behalf Of *HamOP
> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 23, 2020 6:44 PM
> *To:* w5zn at w5zn.org; Stan Ross <k5vr.stan at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* adxa <adxa at mailman.qth.net>
> *Subject:* Re: [ADXA] Joel's upcoming article in our newsletter ..
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> I had my 63th year in June. Can I come to the 50th Party when it
> happens?? I’ll bring wine.
>
> San
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> *From: *w5zn at w5zn.org
> *Sent: *Wednesday, September 23, 2020 5:06 PM
> *To: *Stan Ross <k5vr.stan at gmail.com>
> *Cc: *HamOP <k5yy1 at cox.net>; adxa <adxa at mailman.qth.net>
> *Subject: *Re: [ADXA] Joel's upcoming article in our newsletter ..
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> Good deal Stan...congrats quite an accomplishment!
>
> Also congrats on 49 years. I knew you were about one year ahead of me.
> I'll be at 48 years in a couple of weeks. So, we gonna have a "50th Party"
> next year????   :-))
>
> I still remember our old Novice days and Arkansas Teenage Net days back in
> the early 70's.
>
> ZN
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> On 2020-09-23 15:36, Stan Ross wrote:
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> Great comments, everyone.
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>
> I, too, need P5 (and FR/G) to have "worked 'em all" but I'm not losing
> sleep worrying if I'll work them before time to go SK.
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> This Saturday, 9/26, will be my 49th ham radio "anniversary" and most of
> my ham career did not involve amplifiers and elaborate antenna systems... a
> Swan 500C (courtesy of my grandfather K5VRC before he became a SK) and a
> simple ATB-34 Tri-bander that I saved up for got me well on the way of what
> has turned out to be a lifelong love of DX'ing.
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> So, as we patiently await Cycle 25's better band conditions, we can wait
> for those elusive entities as well.
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> 73 and good DX!
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> Stan
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> K5VR
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Sep 23, 2020, at 12:15 PM, HamOP <k5yy1 at cox.net> wrote:
>
> Good post Joel
>
> I will try to be brief. I was on the DXAC for many years and Chairman in
> late 70s and early 80s, and the talk began from those DXers who were
> chasers for a *few years only* and lacked 3-4 countries and wanted the
> uninhabited or countries not allowing amateur to be deleted. The DXAC was
> strongly against this, especially when some "real old timers" who had been
> around 2-3 times longer than those 'newcomers' still needed 1-2 of the same
> 3-4 rare countries..
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>
> I will NOT discuss the allowance of Burma a few years ago at this time and
> the "way too fast allowing it" without proper proof of "him" being there
> with permission, mainly because 100s on the DXCC needed *only* Burma for
> *Top* of Honor Roll. In the late 1970s to early 80s there was a time when
> 3 of the top 5 rarest countries suddenly appeared within 3-4 months and
> most DXers got them, including HZ/YI Neutral Zone, etc. Then people shut up
> a while! You don't just delete 3Y, BS7 and No. Korea at this time and
> cheapen the DXCC award program for the ego of a few, politically motivated
> hams in our "HOBBY"... This ain't a business you know.
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>
> Anyway, good prelim comment Joel about your upcoming dissertation for us
> to read slowly and understand and then support the right agenda that the
> ARRL should adopt, without politics!  The initial Kosovo operation sorta
> stands out too. Hmmm.
>
> San K5YY
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