Vince was a definitely a 'real ham' who treasured all aspects of amateur
radio history, including literature and telegraph keys. I sold him a
Melahan Valiant about twelve years ago. He was especially grateful since he
had been on a search for quite a long time. It would be hard to guess, but
I have to believe Vince had probably acquired nearly 1,000 telegraph keys,
most of which are quite rare.
Paul, W9AC
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Gerhardt" <phgerhardt@gmail.com>
To: <amps@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 5:49 PM
Subject: [Amps] K5VT SK
> There is one less Voo-Dude contester following the untimely passing of
> Vince
> Thompson K5VT <http://www.cadxa.org/>. Diagnosed very recently with
> leukemia, Vince was unable to tolerate the resulting therapy. As a member
> of
> the Voo-Dude contest team, Vince was instrumental in putting West African
> multipliers in all of our logs. In addition, he was a friendly face at
> hamfests and conventions, never lacking for a humorous remark. He is
> already
> missed by us all. (Thanks, Roger G3SXW and Tony N7BG)
>
> Vince sold me one of the older amps last Dec and I am so glad I sent him a
> thank you note for it.
>
> Paul
> Running the old Alpha 78 for Vince...
>
> --
> Paul Gerhardt
> K3PG
> http://pgerhardt.blogspot.com
> QRP ARCI 6674
> FP 274
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