[Boatanchors] OT - Searching For A Ham Friend

[Richard Knoppow]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <dfischer at usol.com>
To: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2011 3:27 PM
Subject: [Boatanchors] OT - Searching For A Ham Friend


>
>
> Thanks to those of you who informed me that my high school 
> friend Roger
> Parnow, K8UZK was a SK.
>
> Now can you find this guy?
>
> The other Ham in high school I do not know the call sign 
> of. His name was
> Mike Ragan. I am 'not' sure of the spelling of his last 
> name! It was
> pronounced like a former President with a first name of 
> Ronald! Perhaps if
> one of you can match his last name and do a search on the 
> Internet you might
> find his call sign. Assuming he is not SK also!
>
> So far I have outlived all three high school Hams I knew! 
> K8UZJ was only
> fifty when he became a SK in 1996. Now Roger, K8UZK in 
> 2008. He would have
> been only sixty-one. Since I am pushing sixty-five, that 
> makes me really
> old! (LOL!) Considering the alternative, I'll take old!
>
> Thanks -
>
     There is an old saying that old age is the one disease 
no one wants to be cured of.
     I am seventy, can't believe it, I was twenty-five only 
a short time ago.


--
Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk at ix.netcom.com