[ADXA] Ken Copeland K5KD?? Updates on this early ADXA member from the late 60s?? WA5OFT also??

[w5zn at w5zn.org]

I talk to Ken almost daily. He is alive and well and yes, he now lives
in Mulberry. He moved there about two years ago. He wife (2nd wife)
passed away about 5 years ago so he decided to sell his home in SW
Little Rock/Benton area and move close to his daughter who lives
somewhere between Mulberry and Fort Smith. Ken does attend a hamfest
occasionally, in fact he was at the Russellville hamfest last year (just
before the Covid shutdown.) Ken just had a birthday last week, I don't
recall his exact age but he is around 86, as you note.  

I haven't seen or heard Ian in some time. 

73 Joel W5ZN 

On 2021-04-18 10:57, Sandy Hutson wrote:

> One of first associate members of ADXA in about 1968 or so was Ken Copeland, W5THY, and he later became K5KD and last I heard lived in a small home in Mulberry, AR. Does anyone know of him in recent years and if he even has a ham station anymore?  Just get these old memories and track down where they live and if active in ham radio. 
> 
> When the ADXA withdrew our original requirement that you had to have DXCC to be a "full" member, otherwise an associate member, then Ken became a full member automatically. We have always had a rule that you had to a member of ARRL to be an ADXA member so that we would be a 100% ARRL member club. 
> 
> Another lost ADXA member was our Secretary when I gave it up in the late 60s, Ian  Campbell of Little Rock in Echo Valley, WA5OFT.  Ian would be about 89 years old. Not heard from him in 20 years or so when I got a landline call from him to tell me "hello".. Ian's WA5OFT license expired in 2020 and was not renewed. QRZ does not say he is deceased.  Updates on Ian?? 
> 
> TU to anyone who can tell us about K5KD's and WA5OFT's status at this time. Not seen Ken at an AR hamfest  in many years, and he would be about 86 years old now. Think Ian just dropped out of ham radio and the DXing mode... 
> 
> 73 and have a great week; not much DX to chase, unless perhaps you are on FT8/FT4. 
> 
> San YY 
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