[R-390] Nolan Lee's 1998 EAC overhaul narrative

[Les Locklear]

Well, let me attempt to set the record straight on this.

The first week in March, 2001 (approximate time frame, + or - 1 week), Nolan 
drove over to my house and we spent most of a day talking about mostly 
R-390A's and other related items. We went out for lunch and ate a couple of 
fried shrimp po' boys, and had a grand time telling lies and convincing each 
other they were indeed true. He did arrive in the "infamous" black Chevy 
Suburban that was loaded to the gills with bullet proof vests, weaponry that 
included but wasn't limited to: M-16, Ingram Mac-10 various pistols, both 
semi automatic and revolvers, riot shot guns, bandoleers of all kinds of 
ammo, Sherriff's Deputy clothing, etc.. We made a trade of equipment rack 
cabinets, antennas and other ancillary equipment that he took home with him 
and I was to meet him later and get my goodies, A HP 180D scope, spare time 
base plugin, a data precision counter good to 120 mhz, manuals etc. We 
corresponded on March 10, 2001 (I have the e-mails, so I'm sure of this 
date), and agreed to meet later in the week as he was on call. Never 
happened, follow-up correspondence was never answered, phone calls went 
unanswered. Shortly after Rich McClung told me that Nolan had a major stroke 
that he recovered from, but had no memory of anything, radios or anything 
related to them registered "zero" with him.

I never spoke with his wife, all I knew about her was she was a nurse.

Follow-up e-mails through September 2001 went unanswered. I'm not 
complaining, as I would rather have him here making ridiculous e-mails and 
being Nolan.

I don't know if he has passed away or not, as I wasn't that curious to do 
obituary searches, etc..

Was he a Redneck? Damn straight, but down here, you can see them in every 
direction. In Northern Minnesota where I was born and raised we called them 
"Jack Pine Savages." They are everywhere............

One small tidbit, I spied a woman's brassiere on the floor of his Suburban 
and he saw me looking at it, he said that belongs to Helga. I looked at him 
quizzically, he replied, you know, Helga Rubenstein...........That was 
Nolan.

Les Locklear
Gulfport, Ms.
Dx'ing since '57

-----Original Message----- 
From: barry williams
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 2:29 PM
To: r-390 at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [R-390] Nolan Lee's 1998 EAC overhaul narrative

Don,

I think the last person to speak to his wife is Les. It appeared back
then that the stroke did major damage to Nolan.

I have a big, fat Netscape 3 file that is over 10 mb that would have
years of his posts in it. I'll have to get the old thing in the basement
booted up to look for it one day. I looked through the file a few years
ago, and I think the deer dressing story was in there. (g)

I liked his sig lines. "If you see us running, catch up - Bomb squad
motto" was my favorite. He also liked to disrupt the local ham club
meetings with pranks too. I remember something where he said they were
seriously unhappy with him.



the other Barry

p.s. The story about washing his R-390A with a garden hose and drying it
out under the tree was pretty good too as that stirred up a few people.


> What FAQ?  There isn't one officially attached to the R-390 mailing list.
> No need, because there is the excellent independent one at r-390a.net.
> (hat tip to Al and contributors)
> Some of Nolan's highlights are there, including a nicely formatted
> HTML version of the overhaul post and a link to his web page archives.
>
> AFAIK, there isn't a collected repository of his posts.  Perhaps
> someone has them in a saved archive.
>
> I'd like to revisit Nolan's story about dressing out a deer in a New
> Orleans apartment parking lot (certainly OT)
> and snag a copy of his prophetic email tag line poking fun at Tempest
> internet "alert words".
>
>
> Don
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