Kelly,
My deepest condolences to you and Derrick's family.
I remember spending time with you both on one of those Dayton trips.
We shared a lot of laughs and it was great to put faces on two favorite
SS mults.
He will certainly be missed. 73 Derrick, RIP OM
73, Gerry K8GT
> ----- Forwarded message from Kelly.Taylor@freepress.mb.ca -----
> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:20:49 -0500
> From: "Taylor,Kelly" <Kelly.Taylor@freepress.mb.ca>
> Subject: ve4vv, sk
>
>
>
> One day in late 1983, I was at home running Americans split on 40
> meters using a special prefix. I can't remember which. After
> putting
> about 20 or so in the log, a guy who had just moved back to
> Winnipeg
> called in. We chatted on 40 for more than an hour, eventually
> QSYing
> back to the Canadian-only portion.
> So began a friendship that lasted 24 years.
> He and I shared too many cold ones, too many coffees, too many
> breakfasts at Smitty's.
> We entered the 1984 WPX SSB as multi-single and won as top
> Canadians.
> We won the 1984 Can-Am contest. I thought his IC-745, which he won
> at
> Dayton in 1982, was the cat's meow. It certainly beat my FT-100B.
> We often split the two weekends of SS at his station. He was always
> a
> better code man than I.
> We went to Dayton, twice, both times staying up way too late in the
>
> contest suite. Both times hauling way too much gear back from the
> flea
> market.
> We went to Grand Beach and oogled the girls. We were best men at
> each
> other's weddings. His, mine and then his again.
> We were like brothers.
> That friendship drew to a close yesterday when Derrick, VE4VV,
> passed
> away after a lengthy disease.
> 73 old boy. See you in the pileups again some day.
>
>
> Kelly, ve4xt
>
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
> --
>
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