[ADXA] some history from the ‘60’s

[Dennis Schaefer]

I knew I’d neglect  some - Don, K5DB, i think was WA5ZKE back in the day
and John, WB5BHS was around.   Andy Henry, WA5TIY (K5XT) rounded out the
group of young hams who frequented the Teenage Net and got on the air with
the other groups.  I suspect even WA5VDH (K5UR) occasionally showed up to
ragchew on 75 or 80.

73,
Dennis/RZ

On Tue, Mar 5, 2024 at 5:34 PM Dennis Schaefer <dennisw5rz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dick Freeling W5TIZ, was one of the first ADXA members, maybe a charter
> member.  Dickie was quite a character, and we enjoyed him.  He lost his
> sight in the war but had a distinguished career in finance.   As a new
> General, I talked daily to the group on 3.948 LSB.  Although i was just a
> kid, those men put up with me. I remember some of the “special” colorful language
> used by the group, but particularly by Dick.
>
> Boomi! this was a substitute for bull**** because the FCC would have
> frowned on that back then.
>
> Siphogging. Used as in “he was just siphogging along”. (whatever that
> means)
>
> Jabooner. A big signal.
>
> I think there were others, but that’s all I can remember.
>
> Jim Crowley, W5IRG, and Sid, WA5AUZ,  were also ADXA active members and
> were on the group daily. I also had some long CW rag news with Jim and Sid
> down on 3.790 CW. There were other ADXA stalwarts.
>
> I talked to Bill Priakos, W5KGJ, now W5SJ, on 75 a lot also, but I think
> that was usually on the Razorback Net Frequency. Randy, K5BOC, was also a
> regular on the net frequency along with others like WB5IGF (W5ZN) and
> K5QHS (K5YY). There was usually a large group there before and after the
> nets. I think it’s interesting that all of these regular ragchew contacts on
> SSB were red hot CW operators. I also ragchewed with WA5KUD (W5KI) and
> WA5KAK (W5VY), mostly down in the 80M CW band. I know I have left some out
> - if you were there, speak up.
>
> Just something I was thinking about today…..I guess caused by remembering
> Dick’s conversation with the FCC about the banned countries.
> 73,
> Dennis/RZ
>
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