[Lowfer] Re: Oh, CRAP! or - " "HI, " the beacon heard 'round the world"

[Mike WE0H]

Holy crap that's funny reading...hi hi...Sounds like a happy old timer 
living the good life.

Mike



John Andrews wrote:
>
> Ronnie doesn't even own a typewriter, let alone a computer! Any QSL's 
> you get from him will be handwritten in pencil on scrap paper. Sal, 
> K1RGO, visited him recently, and posted this on the LWCA Message Board:
>
> "For an update on medfer HI : I had an eyeball with Ronnie when I 
> dropped by his QTH after a bit of hiking at Webb Mountain. I got the 
> tour, it was like a time warp. He is running all tubes on both the 
> Hifer and Medfer rigs. The latest Medfer rig runs 2 Xtals with a 6BE6 
> mixer(if any of you can recall that good old tube)with a output 
> frequency of 513.5 KHz. The IDer is a motor driven aluminum wheel with 
> pegs. Ronnie has no land line, cell or computer, only snail mail. His 
> mailbox is decorated with high voltage insulators so it's easy to find 
> his "shack". ........Sal"
>
> JA