[WVARC] Hello world

[John Musselman]

Hey everyone...

How nice to hear from you all again! We should take a quick roll call 
and see who of us are still around.

Love the photo montage. I believe I put that together for one of the 
WVARC newsletters. And I think it is posted on kkn, but I'm not sure how 
to access it right off. My best guess, clockwise from top left:

Leigh, WB6OLD (then) operating a contest it appears from the stack of 
sharpened pencils.

Phil Hockmeyer, WB6TVH, and me at Field Day at Rancho San Julian 1968.

My brother Jim, WB6SST at the same Field Day

Craig Olin, WB6FWC, while he was still alive and healthy

Station of Steve Mercanet, WB6FVY

Matt, WB6KPN, at his nice station where "A Ham's Wide World" was filmed 
in part.

Me, at my college dorm, 1970.

This montage, and a bunch of other stuff, used to be posted on kkn. The 
old link for this is

http://www.kkn.net/~tree/wvarc.jpg

but the link dunt work any more.

John Musselman, N6EP, ex-WB6UHF


On 6/24/2023 10:36 AM, gregf at efn.org wrote:
> No kidding Ken. A few of us even ended up in the communications field. 
> When friends or acquaintances ask how I 'got into radio' I point them 
> to that very youtube of 'Hams Wide World'. Actually, when they ask how 
> I got into studying bats (3rd career) I direct them to that video , or 
> "This is Ham Radio" also by Dave Bell: 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuIExTh4CF8 BTW, I believe my first 
> xmtr (Johnson Viking II) was as chirpy as the CW at 11:55 in this video!
>
> I recently ran across and scanned this contact sheet from 1969 or 70 , 
> it includes a few field day pics (attached). I can ID most - but not 
> all - of the characters pictured.
>
> And thank you Tree for reviving the list.
>
> 73,
> Greg  AC7RX (WA6OSG)
>
>
> On 6/24/2023 10:11 AM, Ken Beals wrote:
>> Even though my WVARC days are getting a bit hazy, I'm still amazed at 
>> the quantity and quality of ops that emerged from that tiny little 
>> geographic spot on the earth.
>>
>> And as a weird coincidence, I was perusing YouTube a few nights ago 
>> just to kill time and ran across "The Ham's Wide World", with the 
>> star of the show WB6KPN/N6PN working XE2RH.  Another amazing piece of 
>> ham history from the little club that did things!
>>
>> Ken K6MR (WB6VFJ)
>>
>
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