How does one get on a 160M call list?
I never thought to do that. I guess I might have missed a few because of it.
Who is running a 160M call list these days?
73, Richard - K5NA
-----Original Message-----
From: k1zm@aol.com
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2012 09:45 AM
To: topband@contesting.com
Subject: Topband: W4OWJ - Jack Matthews- SK
GM ALL
W4ZV and K8MFO have already commented on Jack's passing - I will only note a
bit more here.
I happened to be one of those guys on "JACK'S PHONE LIST"that K8MFO
mentioned earlier - and I too benefited from a number of late night & early
morning phone calls as did N4WW, N0XA and others over the years.
Jack was a really fine gentleman - the genuine real deal kind of guy - soft
spoken and a fine 160m operator well into his 80's.
As Bernie's post noted, Jack lived to be 96 and I used to see him in the
160M suite at Dayton in the mid 1980's - I used to go with him to Dayton and
one day Jack said - "Jeff, I have outlived most of the guys I used to come
here to talk with - except for you and ZV and one or two others, I really do
not know too many of the guys anymore". I guess that happens when you
outlive most of your peers....
Always, in good humor, Jack suffered a personal tragedy when his son
predeceased him - something I know hit him very hard some years ago.
When he retired to a retirement community in FLA some years later, he still
managed a good signal on xmit on 160m although his Rx situation suffered
somewhat as a result.
I do recall calling him on the phone to work VK0IR in 1997 when Bob Allphin
was there and Jack made the Q from his small lot. He was thrilled to get
that one into his log...
Like me Jack was an FT1000D guy and we often talked about what a neat radio
it was when it first came out.
Over the years, my phone would ring now and then - and his familiar voice
would say "Jeff (long pause....) - this is Jack Matthews".....and we would
just chat about things for a half hour or so.... "Are u working anything new
these days he would say...it has been really slow down here..."
I will miss those phone calls for sure and the distant friendship of a
really nice guy - he always asked me to come down to visit but somehow I
never managed to do that - now I sure wish that I had found the time to do
so at least once.
RIP Jack - you will be missed - sorry we will not be hearing "OWJ" in the
pileups on 160m anymore when a rare one shows up.
73 JEFF K1ZM/VY2ZM
Email K1ZM@aol.comGM
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