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[Benny Owens]

WOW THE MEMORIES

I HAD MANY QSOS WITH TEX OVER THE YEARS AND LOVED HIS BUG SWING.
SADLY THE LAST QSO LOGGED WAS 1997.

ALSO THE RECORDING OF LEA AB5TY IS SPECIAL BECAUSE MY WIFE AND I USED
TO STAY WITH HER WHEN SHE LIVED IN THIS COUNTY AND WE WERE STILL
SETTING UP A PLACE TO STAY ON OUR RANCH HERE.  LEA LIKED TO USE HER
BUG ON 80M AMERICAN MORSE.   I BROUGHT HER MY CONVERTER TO OPERATE HER
SOUNDER OFF HER HAM RIG.  SHE LOVED THAT.  I ENJOYED HER QUEEN BEE NET
AS OFTEN AS POSSIBLE.

SORTA LIKE VISITING YOU ON THAT EXXON SHIP IN BATON ROUGE AFTER OUR FB
CW QSO AS YOU SAILED UP THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER.  ALL GOOD MEMORIES.
THANKS FOR MAKING THEM POSSIBLE.  I KNOW YOU STILL REMEMBER THE CAFE'
AU LIT AND BEIGNETS.

73
BENNY K5KV



On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 10:09 PM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <n1ea at arrl.net> wrote:
> W5PEH, Pete, just announced he has two Blue Racers from 1913 or so for Dave.
>
> Lovely, keys, and speaking of old Blue Racers, W0BMU, Tex had one, and he
> scratched the name of his barge on the base. Ships and I learned barges also
> had four letter call signs, aircraft had five letter call signs and land
> stations in Morse had three letter call signs.  Ships, barges and broadcast
> stations all shared the four letter call sign pool.
>
> W0BMU, Tex, was radio officer on a barge!  On a barge on the Eire Canal in
> 1916, he used to say he had a LES, a Lake Erie Swing (LES), but I always
> corrected him and told him he had a Lake Erie CANAL Swing!  He loved hearing
> that, he'd laugh and laugh. The barge call was carved into the key.  He was
> 16 years old when he was Sparks.
>
> Here's some short recordings of Tex and his LES bug fist, the gang didn't
> understand how important these recordings would be, they're short and the
> others got impatient waiting for Tex to finish sending.
>
> https://archive.org/details/W0bmuHowardtexHarveyW0bmu
>
> 73
>
> DR
> N1EA
>
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