[CQ-Contest] Fwd: ve4vv, sk

[k8gt at twmi.rr.com]

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 at freepress.mb.ca -----
>     Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:20:49 -0500
>     From: "Taylor,Kelly" <Kelly.Taylor at 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
> 
> 
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