Stan, I remember very well WB5FMK from the 70’s.  I was in college then and not quite as active, but was on the air on some weekends and in the summer break.  I went into the Air Force in 74 and wasn’t very active for several years.  There was a  good crop of young hams back in those days and you were certainly one of them!

I had an HW-12 in my Impala and actually worked some DX with it.  I parked in an open area by the football field and worked a YV in a pileup on 75 SSB.  I was yelling loud and gunning the engine to get another volt or two to the finals.  

Joel, that’s a good story about Dickie!   

Many of you remember Ollie, K9GPN.  Ollie used to tell us that “they” were watching us through that little eye on the TV sets and we just laughed it off as another ADXA eccentricity.  Then years later, we noticed that we were getting ads for things we had talked about in the living room, but had not looked for on the internet.   ADXA members are always ahead of the times!
73,
Dennis/RZ

On Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 6:41 PM Stan Ross <k5vr.stan@gmail.com> wrote:
Well, guess I was a “late-comer” (WN5FMK Sept.’71 then WB5FMK in ‘72) but one of my memories of not only being a part of the Arkansas Teenage net with most of the folks previously mentioned, was the time I caught Rich Duncan, then WB5CNV (now WD5B) on 75 meters mobile coming down US 71 from the U of A on his way home for the weekend. So I proceeded to give him directions to our house, at which point my mom asked who I was inviting and what did I know about him. My simple answer was, “Well, he’s a ham so it’s gotta be OK!” So, Rich stopped by and I saw my first HF mobile setup and was thoroughly impressed that he could talk on a band from a car that would normally require over 115 feet of wire!

Stan
VR


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On Mar 6, 2024, at 5:08 PM, w5znjoel@gmail.com wrote:



Great memories here, Dennis!

 

A month ago, February 1 to be exact, I had the extreme pleasure of presenting the program at the Bella Vista Radio Club. Before hand Don, K5DB and most of the ADXA NW Ark group met me and Kim for a bite to eat before the meeting. Don and I began recalling old callsigns and folks from “ back then”. Some DX’ers, some not.

 

A funny story about Dickie. He knew my mom as she would bring me to the old OZK picnic (The original Arkansas hamfest !!!!) before I was old enuf to drive. One morning I was lsning to 3948 before heading off to school and Dickie got fired up about something and during his rant said “hell”. Now, today that’s not looked upon as a bad word but then it was. She heard it and said “Who’s that doing all that cussing on the radio? I thought that wasn’t allowed?” I told her it was Dickie and she said she would have a talk with him at the next picnic. I don’t recall that she ever did as I became old enuf to drive and she didn’t have to chauffeur me anymore.

 

Anyway, one of MANY funny stories about Dickie.

 

ZN