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