[CVCC] CVCC - 70's 80's de W4PM

Sun Apr 22 16:05:17 EDT 2007

*K4AUN Lance Strickland.
He and Monk, W4HJ at the time, developed and marketed the
"Jet Keyer", a one tube, one real relay (not the reed relays of today)
which would key any of the cathode keying rigs of the day.

or K4AUL - Bud Block

Tom Ogburn WB4BVY, AD4KE (yuck), N4ZJ
Henry Boze WA4QOC, N4HB
KX4S Bill Bunting
N4BLX - Rick Barber
W4RNP Don Murray
WA4FMX Jack McCready
? Rick Genter
?? Rick's XYL
WA8ZDT Kevin Drost
N4ZJ the first - Dave Corbett
K4WHN Malvern Barrow
W4BAI Walt Williams
?? Ed Savage
*W4?? Ed Burghardt

The Tom Jones CW story is absolutely true - I was the one trying to copy the
call along with Ed Burghardt
*when Field Day was setup in the little building in Bryan Park near 
Lakeside.
 1A running on generator power

I STILL have the VVF accukeyer board - BLANK WITH NOTHING INSTALLED ON IT
I have 3 of them now. Puck and I built ours together over a couple of 
evenings.
The biggest drawback was it did not have any battery backup. When you turned 
it off,
it lost the stuff you had in memory.
I still have mine, Puck's and K4JM's

Field day in Goochland at Jim Pearsall's farm
*We had one of my Drake lines setup with a SB200 or SB220 under a pole barn
at Jim's. As Puck said the bugs bad! One got inside the receiver into the 
dial.
It looked like the BATMAN Sign when you looked at the dial.

How about when MYA's amp melted down at KX4S - the place stank for weeks
*That amp was so stinky, it was relegated to outside the back door when we 
used it at
W4DR's place.

At KB4GX - a 7 quarter wavelength per leg sloping Vee toward's Europe
*Remember one contest when I was on 15M, Worked someone and heard the op at
W4DR trying to work the same station. Relayed DR's call to the station, and 
the report
was barely copyable. Turns out DR had a shorted barrel in the feedline going 
up to
his 15M beam.
I turned over a bunch of historical info to, I think, MYA about a year ago

Gotta Run - more later.

N4ZJ

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[mailto:cvcc-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of H. M. Motley Jr.
Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2007 1:48 PM
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Subject: [CVCC] CVCC - 70's 80's de W4PM

Just some scattered memories about the early years.  Perhaps we can gather a
few of these and someone can put it all together.  My apologies to the guys
whose calls I can't remember like Bob Ladd and Charlie and others but my
memory is going.   I don't remember who the charter members were but
probably the first six mentioned below.

CVCC Early Years - 70's - 80's

Early Members:

K4AUL -Lance Strickland or maybe he was K4AUN
K4AUN - Can't remember the name (big Dxer and county hunter - lived near
Lance)
W4HJ  Monk Bullington
K4JM - Tom Jones
W4QCW, W4DR - Bob Eschleman
W4XR - Bill Nighman
W4MYA - Bob Morris
K4ZRX, N4ND, W4PM - Puck Motley
WB4?, N4? - Tom Ogburn
KB4GX - Glen Duke
KX4S - Bill ?
KG4W - Ed Hughes
K4HOT - Dave Jewett
?            - Charlie Taylor
?            - Bob (our current treasurer)
?             - The guy with the farm in Goochland (field day site) Can't
remember his name
N4HB - Henry Boze
W4FEG - Ralph
WU4G - Ronnie
   ?        - an N4 who was a big time contest op from 8 land- Tom has that
call now I think.  Kevin I think.
Others I'm sure but memory fails me.

I remember everyone getting 1x2 calls in 1974-76 except for W4MYA.  Bob got
that call when he moved to VA from WVA and upgraded from  novice KN8NNC  to
General W4MYA.  I always envied him and that call.  It took me till 1996 to
finally get a W4 call!

I remember the multi-multi's from W4DR, KX4S, and later W4MYA in the DX
tests and a two man multi single from KB4GX.

>From W4DR I remember a two rig set up MYA and I had  - Two Drake C-Lines
rigged so whoever keyed the mike first got the got the L4B amp. While one
was running the other was looking for multipliers.

At KB4GX we has a five element 80M sloping dipole array.  It commanded the
frequency!  It snowed like crazy Saturday night and we had to load his P/U
truck with cinder blocks to get out of the driveway.  I don't know how I got
home?

I remember we were trying to get the call of some 9M for a multiplier on 15M
at Sugar's QTH.  No one could get it until Bill came over and reeled off the
call.  This was my first experience observing  ESP - long before DSP!

One field day MYA and I set up near the saw mill on the farm in Goochland.
It was hot as blazes and the swarms of bugs kept flying into our pair of
3-500z in our active antenna tuner. It sounded like a bug zapper!

I remember a field day when Tom Jones was asleep and someone was trying to
copy a CW station who was a bit too fast for him.  Tom Jones hollered out
from his sleep the right call.  Tom could copy in his sleep better than most
of us when we were awake!  This may be more fable that true but I believe it
to be absolutely true!

I remember Bill Nighman's comment whenever we'd mentioned that  we had
worked a new country,
"Who needs it!" I guess he had already worked them all!

One field day we used W4XR's call.  I was in charge of mailing the logs.  I
took them to work and forgot to mail them in time.  Bill never forgave me
for that!

We had a club project to build a WB4VVF Accu-Memory keyer.  I built a least
three of them, two for other guys -.  Tom Jones, and  K4AUN I think.  MYA
built one and others also who I don't remember.

I used to enjoy the meetings because we met at members' homes rotating
monthly.  That was FUN!

We used to be a local club and won a few gavels in that category.  Too bad
those days are gone.

Puck
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