[TMRA] Fw: W8VSB Karl Koella

[Steve Bellner, w8ter]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dwayne Jeffrey" <dtjeffrey at gmail.com>
To: <w8ter at arrl.net>
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2012 11:57 AM
Subject: W8VSB Karl Koella


HI

I just found the Mobile Association website and read the history and 
found Karl Koella's name (W8VSB).

I found your email on the website and thought I'd add a little to the 
history.
I'll be doggoned if I didn't go to ham radio classes in the Red Cross 
building in 1953. The classes were being taught by Karl Koella who 
(as your history says) also started the TMR along with his buddy 
'Red' and others. Karl Koella was singularly responsible for dozens 
of hams getting their license, me being one. Karl always had a group 
of guys hanging around in his basement on Oak Grove street with Karl 
showing us how to build radios.

I got my Novice license in '53 and General in '54 but didn't join the 
TMR because I wasn't old enough to drive :) But I did make a bicycle 
Morse Code mobile that summer with a hand key strapped to my leg.

I lost track of Karl after I got married and was sorry to hear he 
died in '99.

Thanks for your kind attention

Regards,

KB1YOO (previously W8PID)
Dwayne Jeffrey
Amherst, New Hampshire=


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