[ADXA] some history from the ‘60’s

[John Evans]

I do not normally jump in on these.... but there were a couple other
teenagers that ran around together.   Jimmy Poole, WA5UMP (WU5X) that
checked into the Teenage Net.   Al Simpson, WA5TJB, was a regular on the
Arkansas Post Office Net, he never did get off 75 M with his Heath HW-12.

Those were the good ole days for sure.

I could tell a lot of stories about K5UR, but one of my favorites was
watching him work DX operating split with his SB-101.  He would hollar,
"Transceive" at the end of his transmission and start spinning the VFO to
get down to their TX Frequency.

Dennis, thanks for the memories.

-John

On Tue, Mar 5, 2024 at 6:39 PM Dennis Schaefer <dennisw5rz at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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