[CQ-Contest] K4VX - SK

[Dick Frey]

I met Lew for the first time in summer of 1988 when I moved to Quincy, 
IL across the river from Hannibal. He invited me to play in the CW WPX. 
It was my first time in a MM and, not knowing me at all, he put me on 
10m. We had a great opening to JA and Lew's "elephant gun" played great. 
I did three back-to-back >150/hrs, all on paper, which was sent by the 
page upstairs where Lew laboriously typed it into his computer and sent 
back a bigger dupe sheet. Must have passed the test because the next 
time there I got to play on 20m.

It was an education every time I went. Operating procedures, tactics, 
antenna theory ...the works. His wife Terry was a great cook, a ham too, 
and she took great pleasure in feeding the crew. And the crew was 
eclectic. It was a chance to meet and train with some new talent - W4AN, 
N5TJ, NN1N, and some old timers - K9FD, K9BGL, K5OT, K0CA, K5GO, N9JF 
and others lost in my increasingly unreliable gray EPROM.

Lew's energy and devotion to the hobby are legend. We all are poorer for 
his passing.
RIP Lew.

-- 
Dick Frey, K4XU