[CQ-Contest] Remembering the BEST TIMES at Multi-Multi Operations.....

[Randy Thompson, K5ZD]

To set the record straight.  It was K5GA who had his toe nails painted...  I was
always on the radio (instead of sleeping)!

But, yes, hearing K5LZO yell "LAHORE" as loud as possible after working an AP2
on 20m long path definitely wakes things up.

My multi-multi memory is going to K5RC for the first time and working 40m with
K5TM. I fell in love with the 75A4 receiver. It sounded great and made the band
seem full of space. Of course, learning about 40m morning long path (VU2GO used
to be 20 over every morning) was an eye opener as well. The big 40m beam at 140'
(we'll not mention the freeze cracks in the tower legs) was an experience too.

Randy, K5ZD


> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com]On Behalf Of TOMK5RC at aol.com
> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 1:52 AM
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Remembering the BEST TIMES at Multi-Multi
> Operations.....
>
>
> Wow, this really stirs up some emotion. The M/M's of the 70's and 80's at
> K5RC/K5GA should have been video taped for Saturday Night Live.
> Between K5LZO
> blowing cigar smoke in your face when the rate dropped, him slapping
> you in the
>  ear with his slipper at 3AM, my "ex" painting K5ZD's toe nails while he was
> napping and K5KG drinking an entire pot of decaf coffee trying to stay awake,
> we  would just be getting warmed up with stories. If you have never survived
> for 48 hours on chocolate chip cookies, you haven't lived. If you never had
> N5AM  around (Charlie is legally blind) to press into service climbing towers
> in the  middle of the night, you've not lived a complete life as a station
> owner.
>
> Our M/M trips to XE2FU were just as entertaining with the  regular appearance
> of "El Pollo Loco," a rubber chicken that had many uses  and taking your life
> into your hands by using the out-house when K2TNO was in a  playful mood.
>
> As they say, they ain't your father's contests any more.
>
> Tom Taormina, K5RC
> Contesting from the Comstock
> W7RN -  K7RC
>
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