Quack Notes on Rush
I rembember the first time that K7VPF aka (K7JA) came up to RM at my
invitation for a WW test, and in the briefing prior to the start Rush said
The top phone operator I have every heard is K3EST and he had something like
180 EU's tops in a run.
Rush just stood on the stairs with his mouth hanging, and kept jumping down
to grab another 40 Q's (CQ paper log sheet fer you youngesters) as Chirp
kept filling them up to about 220 or so the first hour.
I spent quiet a bit of time on the top of 170 ft. towers and Rush could be a
bit " overwhelming" He did pay me a nice compliment one time after we were
back down he said I was also hell to work with but he had to Pay attention
because I was right about what we were doing too much of the time to ignore
. That was the Home brew 3 element 40 that came down thru the roof of the
car port in the big storm.
It will be a long time if ever that another comes by to do from any part of
the country what Rush was able to do from the Northwest.
RIP OM and CU in DX ??? whatever it is.
Quack aka Rex
]----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Eskenazi" <desk@nwlink.com>
To: <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 05:59
Subject: [CQ-Contest] W7RM memories
> The time was the mid 1970s...the place W7RM...and the time was pre-contest
> Friday morning.
>
> How can one describe what it felt like on this crispy fall morning driving
up
> the curvy road towards that perfectly selected finger of land, 300 feet
above
> salt water in all the directions that mattered....Foulweather Bluff....
and
> making that final turn where you suddenly spot the outcrop of giant yagis
> towering over the forest
> ahead!!! WOW!!!.
>
> Exhilaration and anticipation of the wild pileups of Euros and JAs calling
> us! Piles so thick you could peel your way thru them....from the obvious
> KWs down to the city
> bound dipoles and 50 watt stations...to the mobiles... piles and
> piles.....on and
> on....seemingly never ending. It was the magic of the salt water, the
> antennas and the callsign....W7RM.
>
> Knowing that you would soon be sitting side by side with THE ACE CREW of
> multi-ops: Stu VE7ZZ (N7ZZ), Homer W7EXM (K7RA SK), Chip K7VPF (K7JA),
Dale
> VE7SV, Rex W5QQQ (K7QQ), Paul K7HTZ (K7CW), John W7YGN (W7XR) and Super
> Novice Johnny WA7OTT (KE7V) and on occasion a lucky East Coaster or W6 guy
> that Rush had invited up for the weekend.
>
> There is no way to fully thank Rush for providing SUPER STATION W7RM for
> our team..... we operated knowing we were in the cockpit of the finest
> station in the hobby!
> And the wins were SO exciting! The likes of K2GL W4BVV W3AU N5AU
> K6UA N6DX W0AIH K0RF and more, were the competition......it was a magic
time!
>
> We had the station, the location, and the GUY HIMSELF....and that
confidence
> showed on the air...worldwide!!
>
> We drove home Sunday after the wind-down dinner... and we all knew we had
> experienced the BEST of the BEST.
> Going home to our tribanders and wires at 50 ft was of course a big let
> down.... but we all knew it wouldn't be too long before we
> were once again behind the wheel of the greatest of the multi multi
> stations.. W7 RADIO MEXICO.
>
> Thank you RUSH from all of us on your team. Not only for your drive and
> dedication to the contesting hobby, but for letting us cut our teeth
> at your dream station and then all go on to our own contesting
> careers....while never forgetting our roots.
>
> It was a time like no other....
>
> You will be missed but not forgotten!!
>
> 73 to W 7 RADIO MEXICO
>
> de Danny K7SS (K7JCA)
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