[WVARC] Hello world

[Ed Principe]

Hi John and world,

Just touching base with you all. I’m still waking up on the right side of grass and I am retired and living with my wife in Hawaii on the island of Kauai. If you go to my QRZ page, you’ll see my home QTH and radio station. I usually operate on 20 meters around 14.260 most evenings 6:00pm-9:00pm (HST). 

It’s great to know many of us are still around and on the radio.

Nice hearing from you all.

73’s and much aloha…….
Ed
WA6QDQ/KH6
🌴😎😊

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> On Jun 24, 2023, at 12:59 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:
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> Leigh, WB6OLD (then) operating a contest it appears from the stack of sharpened pencils.
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> Phil Hockmeyer, WB6TVH, and me at Field Day at Rancho San Julian 1968.
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> My brother Jim, WB6SST at the same Field Day
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> Craig Olin, WB6FWC, while he was still alive and healthy
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> Station of Steve Mercanet, WB6FVY
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> 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
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> 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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