Patrick Martin wrote:
By a couple of comments, I am feeling like we may be boring some of
the others on the list. I could go on and on going down memory lane.
This has been fun. But we don't want to run everyone else off either.
Maybe we should wind this down. But as I said, it has been a
Mike,
By the comments, it looks like most want to continue with this subject,
and I have not heard anything from Lynn. By the subject line, if someone
is not interested, they can delete it. I have no complaints as I have
been enjoying it myself. By the way, does anyone remember Hank Wilkinson
of
How about setting up a moderated blog? We could post things to it
and carry on the discussion of old-time DXers there. Is there someone
in our midst with the web publishing skills to accomplish this? If
not, my son is a web designer, perhaps I could persuade him to help.
Bill Harms
On 10
Mke Hardester writes:
My point is this -- facts and figures about a person are nice, but that tells
us virtually nothing about the person as a whole. We DO need to preserve this
for future generations.
Comments, Mr. Krumudgeon?
The proverbial nail has been pummeled on the noggin when it comes
Patrick, you'll find a picture of Hank Wilkinson that I took in 1958 at his
home, then in North Hollywood, among the pix I've posted at the aforementioned
NRC site.
John Callarman, KA9SPA, Family Genealogist, Retired Newspaper Editor,
DX-oyente, Krum TX (AKA Qal R. Mann, Krumudgeon)
I think the origins of this post got at the essentials - who are those
in the DX hobbies over the past near-century who have made signficaint
contributions to the hobby, and what did they do. A little bio info
along with that doesn't hurt, but I'm not sure how far afield from
DX'ing many would
