[WVARC] Hello world

[Tree]

Great to hear from you Ed - fun looking QTH you have there.

You live in the state I haven't yet visited...  someday!

Nice looking "radio porn" on your QRZ page - that BC610 is awesome.

Tree N6TR / K7RAT / WB6ZVC

On Sat, Jun 24, 2023 at 11:39 PM Ed Principe <ed at 222commercial.com> wrote:

> 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
> 🌴😎😊
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> 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:
>
> 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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