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   TAG: Marc Lewis' Cromtag/2 v0.03+ for timEd   
   Hello Sean.   
      
      
      
    ML> This one moved me tremendously since we were such close friends.  It   
    ML> really hurts.  ;-/   
      
    SD> It always does.  I lost two of my good ham friends, both elmers, a   
    SD> while back.    
      
   Unfortunate, but I'm afraid it's the price we all pay eventually... Doesn't   
   make it any easier to take, though.   
      
    ML> 73   
    ML> Marc   
      
    SD> I didn't know you were a ham?   
      
   Wish I were.  Been around them all my life and miss quite a few of them that   
   have left our earthly domain now.   
      
   Short story: Back in the 50's we lived in the Naval Housing Project in San   
   Juan, PR.  There were at least a half-dozen hams in the project.  There was   
   one that lived across the street who had a what seems to be enormous CW rig in   
   the front room; I was always fascinated at going over and watching. I remember   
   he was a "speed demon" on the key and could de-code just as fast as he was in   
   Naval Communicaitons.  The old rig he used had big finals behind a screened   
   enclosure and gasseous regulator tubes that had that errie purple glow to them   
   (probably like 0D3's or 0C3's).  Fred Hatfield if I recall correctly... no   
   telling what his callsign was; that was 60+ years ago.   
      
    SD> Man, I need to get a good antenna up.  We should start an 80M net   
    SD> sometime. :D    
      
   If I had a license...   
      
   73   
   Marc   
      
   ... Rhetorical questions: Who needs them?   
   --- timEd/2 1.10.y2k+   
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