[CVCC] CVCC - 70's 80's de W4PM
togburn at comcast.net
togburn at comcast.net
Mon Apr 23 10:43:32 EDT 2007
Actually the Tom Jones story was for a field day at someone's house down at the river someplace in about 1975. Sorry I don't remember whose place it was. We were doing field day from a screen porch, and Tom was asleep on a lounge chair next to the rigs. We were using a dual headphone setup with 2 receivers and one transmitter. That way we could search and pounce, with each of us listening to a different part of the band. When we found a new one, we would tune the transmitter to that frequency and work it (not as sophisticated as today's mated transceivers, but it worked for its time). I was trying to copy this guy and couldn't quite get it. I took the headphones off and went to the speaker and asked Ed if he could copy this guy flying along on very fast CW with a lot of static crashes. I asked for a repeat several times and neither of us could copy it. Ed was a better CW op than me and he couldn't make it out either. Suddenly, in between snores, Tom Jones burst out "It's K8MDR and
you are 1A Ohio" SNORE. He didn't remember a thing about it when he woke up several hours later.
I don't remember the call, I just made that up for illustration, but the rest is pretty accurate.
Tom
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From: "Robert Morris" <rsmorris at nelsoncable.com>
>
>
> *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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cvcc-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:cvcc-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of H. M. Motley Jr.
> Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2007 1:48 PM
> To: CVCC
> 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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