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

[Ba.Williams]

I knew I had heard that from you and thought it was you who had called his home. 

You don't have a corner on the redneck market down there! I bet there's similar arsenals all around me here in town, and I'm in a nice neighborhood now. 

Barry

On Jul 17, 2013, at 3:33 PM, Les Locklear <leslocklear at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 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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