<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Hi John and world,<div><br></div><div>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). </div><div><br></div><div>It’s great to know many of us are still around and on the radio.</div><div><br></div><div>Nice hearing from you all.</div><div><br></div><div>73’s and much aloha…….</div><div>Ed</div><div>WA6QDQ/KH6</div><div><span style="font-size:-webkit-xxx-large">🌴😎😊</span><br></div><div><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPad</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jun 24, 2023, at 12:59 PM, John Musselman <juan@cox.net> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>Hey everyone...</span><br><span></span><br><span>How nice to hear from you all again! We should take a quick roll call and see who of us are still around.</span><br><span></span><br><span>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:</span><br><span></span><br><span>Leigh, WB6OLD (then) operating a contest it appears from the stack of sharpened pencils.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Phil Hockmeyer, WB6TVH, and me at Field Day at Rancho San Julian 1968.</span><br><span></span><br><span>My brother Jim, WB6SST at the same Field Day</span><br><span></span><br><span>Craig Olin, WB6FWC, while he was still alive and healthy</span><br><span></span><br><span>Station of Steve Mercanet, WB6FVY</span><br><span></span><br><span>Matt, WB6KPN, at his nice station where "A Ham's Wide World" was filmed in part.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Me, at my college dorm, 1970.</span><br><span></span><br><span>This montage, and a bunch of other stuff, used to be posted on kkn. The old link for this is</span><br><span></span><br><span>http://www.kkn.net/~tree/wvarc.jpg</span><br><span></span><br><span>but the link dunt work any more.</span><br><span></span><br><span>John Musselman, N6EP, ex-WB6UHF</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>On 6/24/2023 10:36 AM, gregf@efn.org wrote:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>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!</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>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.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>And thank you Tree for reviving the list.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>73,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Greg AC7RX (WA6OSG)</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>On 6/24/2023 10:11 AM, Ken Beals wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>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.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>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!</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Ken K6MR (WB6VFJ)</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Victory through Mug</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Victory through Mug</span></div></blockquote></div></body></html>