[WVARC] Hello world

[Tree]

Was poking around and stumbled on this page from Skip - WB6VVA.  Not sure
he was ever a member of the club, but I remember going over to his shack in
Western Canoga Park a few times:

Ernie 'Skip' Swenson - WA6VVA (qcwa.org)
<https://www.qcwa.org/wb6vva-31738.htm>

Tree

On Sat, Jun 24, 2023 at 4:05 PM Tree <tree at kkn.net> wrote:

> New link to the WVARC stuff on kkn.net:
>
> Index of /n6tr/wvarc (kkn.net) <https://www.kkn.net/n6tr/wvarc/>
>
> Tree
>
> On Sat, Jun 24, 2023 at 3:58 PM John Musselman <juan at cox.net> wrote:
>
>> 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)
>> >>
>> >
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > Victory through Mug
>>
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