Returned safe and sound from convention, following 11-hour drive from Santa
Fe to Krum. Got up at 5:30 a.m. to get to Santa Fe to pick up my wife for the
return trip.
Hit the hay after entertaining auction but before group picture ...
(temptation to insert cliché about possilbly breaking the camera resisted) ...
Tours were entertaining and enjoyable ... thought of Scot Fybush while running
around ABQ taking tower site pictures ... lady stepped out of her house to ask
what in the world we were taking pictures of in her neighborhood, and was
satisfied with explanation ... she even knew where Krum, Texas, was having come
from North Texas to Albuquerque. Delighted to see Bill Nittler after four and a
half decades ... plus several others I've jabbered with along the way. (I think
Bill Block and Frank Merrill were the only ones in Albuquerque who attended the
only other IRCA convention I did -- Columbus OH in (my memory said '74 but
others corrected to '75.)
Shared Corvallis/Albany H.S. rivalry stories with Doug Pifer ... learned
that Dave Williams and I were on Oregon State campus about the same time ...
enjoyed chauffeuring Dave, Nigel Pimblett and Stan Weisback on excursions from
headquarters ... Kudos to the organizers and the publishers and other
volunteers ... nice, to, to be updated on some other old friends who weren't
able to attend the gathering. Y'all are keeping a couple of good things going
... the AM DX hobby and this 46-year-old club.
Qal R. Mann, Krumudgeon
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