In a message on Friday 05-26-16 Mike Luther said to Ian Mclaughlin:   
      
   Hi Mike,   
      
   ML> Maybe the oldest ham still here in FidoNet!  When the US Extra Class   
   ML> was first created I was the youngest ham radio operator to ever get   
   ML> one in 1952. Originally as Novice WN5WQN and then as General W5WQN   
      
   TNX for your interesting life story, both as ham and as professional.   
      
   However, there are several OT's (oldtimers), among us Fidonet users.   
      
   Just to mention a few of us are; Tom Walker, (callsign?) born 1931,   
   Jean Parrot, VE2NIC, and myself, OH0NC born 1931. Probably there are   
   others, that I don't know the age of.   
      
   Tom and Jean frequent the WIN95 echo, as I do too when there is activity.   
      
   I got my license while doing my compulsory military service 1951, first   
   as OH2OJ because my home was in the finnish capital Helsingfors   
   (Helsinki).   
      
   1957 I moved to Mariehamn, on the Aland Islands, and got the call OH0NC,   
   while my XYL (SK), received her ticket in may 1957 as OH2QJ which changed   
   to OH0ND but upon request was changed to OH0YL, being the only female ham   
   on the �land Islands.   
      
   The activity on Fidonet has hit an all time low, with messages only in   
   two or three echoes, and most of the messages seem to have made the trip   
   via Z3, but not all of them.   
      
   I will however continue to run the HAM-BOX BBS, as a service to my users.   
      
      
   73 de Sam, OH0NC   
      
   aka Holger   
      
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