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[HOWARD MOTLEY]

For your info - my response to Mary Ellen's letter!

>     ---------- Original Message ----------
>     From: HOWARD MOTLEY <hmmjr at comcast.net>
>     To: Mary Ellen
>     Date: 09/27/2020 10:52 AM
>     Subject: Your letter
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>     Mary Ellen,
>     Good to hear from you.  Glad you are fine.  Yes, we're hanging in there and look forward to the day when we can have a giant MASK burning party!
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>     You have taken on quite a project with your Morris family album.  I wish you the best of luck in completing it - or is anything like that ever really complete?
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>     About the pictures:
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>     The wedding picture, as you view it from your left to right, is of Bill Bunting, KX4S, Bob, and Roy Davis, WK4Y. Roy is the taller one. Both were members of the Central Virginia Contest Club and good friends of Bob.  I assume they may have been groom's men at the wedding. Sadly Bill passed in 2014 and Roy passed in 2018.  All my old friends and contemporaries seem to be leaving us! 
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>     The rig picture is of Bob's Novice station in WVA, KN8NNC.  It consisted of a WWII surplus Hammarlund Super Pro receiver (the big box) and a Heathkit DX-20 transmitter.  I was surprised to see the DX-20 because I remember a DX-40 as the first transmitter I saw him using.  Then I remembered I had a DX-20 I bought used from someone as my first transmitter - I bet I bought it from Bob! 
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>     That receiver was EXCELLENT in it's day.  The gov't probably paid over $500 for it  in the 1940's.  Your dad did well to get that for Bob.  I did not have a receiver to match it's performance unti the 1970's!
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>     I'd like to have a copy of that picture, perhaps the print  shows more detail or maybe you have a digital image?
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>     I informed the current club members of your letter.  
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>     Take Care,
>     Puck, Butch, Howard Motley
>     W4PM
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