While we are talking Elmers, I have to tell you about mine. Paul Cash Gregg, W4DPF (Ducks Paddle Fast). I am not quite sure how I first met Cash, but I remember him well. He was a lot older tham I was, heck, back in those days, everyone was older than this then 13 year old. He had a wife and 3 children, none of whom had any radio interests. Cash did not have a lot of money to invest in radio, but his rig was impressive to me. He had a Meck T-60 transmitter and an NC 101X or similar vintage receiver, His main antenna was a 3 element plumbers delight for 10 meters and some wire in the trees for lower bands. He had something else, too, what he referred to the "clothes press." This was a closet crammed full of radio stuff. Although it was similar to Fibber McGees closet, he knew exactly where everything was and it seemed to me that he had just about everything in there, especially tubes and parts. If something blew up, a call to cash would usually result in an invitation to "come over and pick it up."
Cash operate mostly on 10 meters. He really enjoyed the Sunday Morning 10 meter nets in the Asheville, NC area where he lived. I don't think he operated a lot other than that. It seemed that he knew everything about radio and was a great help in troubleshooting homebrew gear and kit problems. If you had trouble with something, he would drop everything to help out. Although there was a wealth of amateur radio knowledge among the many hams in the Asheville area back in the early 50s, Cash was one of the friendliest and most giving of his time to help budding hams. I will never forget him. 73, John, W4AWM ************************************** See AOL's top rated recipes (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004) ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
