[CQ-Contest] K2GM SK

[Georgens, Tom]

I would be remiss if I did not add that I have two CQWW plaques on my wall sponsored by K2GM.  

Thanks again Dave

73, Tom W2SC 

-----Original Message-----
From: kr2q at optonline.net [mailto:kr2q at optonline.net] 
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 2:50 PM
To: cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: [CQ-Contest] K2GM SK

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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