[SADXA] Amazing CWT OP

[Wes]

Those would be Darv, W7KNA and Reg, W7JQM.

Darv is for sure SK, I visited him a few weeks before his passing and then 
attended his funeral.  I don't know about Reg; QRZ says his license expired in 2017.

I don't remember Darv being especially proficient on CW, although he was a 
collector of keys, but Reg sure was.  He could chat while knocking off FD QSOs.

The good old days were in the 1980's when HEAT (Hughes Employees Association 
Tucson) funded various clubs.  HEAT probably didn't know it but the FD grub and 
a keg of beer were paid for by them.

I have a framed copy of the Arizona Daily Star newspaper plate used to print an 
article about the club's 1988 FD outing.  I also remember being interviewed by a 
reporter from KOLD-TV on one FD.  He kept asking me the same question over and 
over, "But why do you do this?"  I kept coming up with different answers but I 
don't think any of them explained it to his satisfaction.

Wes  N7WS



On 12/18/2020 7:26 PM, n7wbjohn wrote:
> So,   OK yes, but I remember a Field Day on Mt Lemmon with the Catalina
> Radio Club group. Darv Nelson and Reg Armstrong were sitting in a trailer
> visiting with me and others while casually racking up CW contacts. We were
> amazed...Wes may be able to fill in the call signs for those two good ops.
> Think this was about 199...5  So+/-?
>
> can't remember what the station was - what the keys were and so on -
> straight keys!
>
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 6:42 PM Wes <wes_n7ws at triconet.org> wrote:
>