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Subject: [CQ-Contest] K2GM SK
From: kr2q@optonline.net
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:49:49 +0000 (GMT)
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I first met Dave in 1975/6 when I was invited up to K2GL's?M/M.  We operatedat 
K2GL's?several times per year until 1986 when Buz?passed.At that time ('76?), 
we were voting on which callsign?to use in the contest. I votedto NOT use K2GM 
cuz?it might get confused with 3GM.  Apparently, the otherops?didn't agree; my 
vote sunk and, well, I don't think Dave ever forgot how I voted.Dave was 
certainly a real character.  Some of the things I remember....Showing up for 
one contest and finding Racal?receivers all over the place, somehowdiverted 
from their intended DX?destination (clearly marked on the boxes...no 
comment).Dave connecting a zillion $ 'scope to the IF of some rig (?) to "look 
for band openings"  on 40 meters.  Guess he was way ahead of his time.  Too bad 
it didn't work.Dave undoing all the station wiring on 40m after we had 
completed it, inserting his Drakereceiver and other "stuff" (???).  Then 
K2TT?called me over and complained that he couldn't drive the Alpha 77 
correctly.  I tried - it was "weird."  I grabbed the Bird slugand found where 
the 1.5kw?was going.  I just remember screaming at the top of mylungs and then 
feeling horrible;  I collapsed in a chair for at least 30 minutes.  One ofthe 
other op's?said that all he heard was hamburger frying (me).  Soon thereafter, 
Iwent back to figure out the problem and found that Dave had used a jumper from 
hishome.  When I backed off the shell of the PL259, the shield was never 
soldered!  Thatis one that I never forgot!Dave trying to convince Buz?(K2GL) 
that he could put up a pair of stacked 40's androtate the tower at high 
rpm?(60rpm?) to be loud everywhere all the time.  Dave toldBuz?that he even had 
the "radome?connector" to do it.Being told of Dave's bedroom goals...to work 
DXCC?in the sack.  I just starred and said, "really?"  The reply comment was, 
"Well, maybe he doesn't have DXCC?yet, butI know that he has Worked All Europe 
several times over."  Who knew?Never knowing what he did for a living, yet 
knowing that he traveled all over the world.Finding Dave on the phone in the 
wee hours, talking to some VE2, trying to convince himto work us on [some?] 
band.  We needed zone 2.  After 15 minutes, the VE?hung up on him.Telling 
Buz?how he needed an antenna tuner right now for the contest and Buz?sayingthat 
if he could get it here, Buz?would buy it.  Later that afternoon, a limo?shows 
upwith the top-end antenna tuner (driven in from NYC).  Of course, nobody could 
findDave and all the op's?had to pony up to cover the driver.  Just classic 
Dave.  I amsmiling broadly as I write this.Well, all good things come to an 
end...and so one more piece of M/M history hits the dust.While I have lots of 
fond memories of Dave, I am certainly not fond of remembering them dueto an 
occasion such as this.de Doug KR2Q
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