[CQ-Contest] N4PN

[Jim Neiger]

My two favorite Paul Newberry stories:

November 1969.  Port-of-Spain, Trinidad.  I get a phone call. Paul, John 
Laney K4BAI, and John Doramus W2TA had just landed Piarco Airport in 
W2TA's plane, stopping over on their way to PJ0 for the upcoming CQ WW 
CW Contest.  I pick them up at the Normandy Hotel, and take them to my 
home overlooking the Gulf of Paria, the Trinidad Yacht Club, and the 
city lights of Port-of-Spain.  Having a few gallons of Old Oak Rum 
leftover from a recent party, we settle in on my terrace with a few cold 
ones, thinking THIS must be they're wanting to do.  Nah.  They're all 
restless and fidgety.  I ask "what the heck is wrong with you guys, 
isn't this great"??  Nope, they yell in unison:  Where's the shack??  My 
very basic 9Y4AA  station; Collins S-Line, 30L-1 amplifier; TH-6 
TRIBANDER; 14AVQ mounted on the roof.  Radio's in the bedroom, only room 
with a/c.  One of them sits down, fires up on 40 and nabs a VQ8, first 
call.  Yes, this is great, and they fly off to Curacao, carrying with 
them a gallon of OLD OAK.

Sometime in the early 1980's:  I'm on a LIAT (Leave Islands Any Time) 
flight to Barbados and my 8P6J shack for the upcoming CQ WW CW.  Down 
the airplane aisle come a couple of tourists, trying to put in the 
overhead what I immediately recognize as a 50 lbs Alpha Amplifier 
transformer box, so adeptly trying to handle it like it was a sponge 
cake.  Well it's Paul and Bob K4UEE, off to St Kitts or St Vincent, or 
some radio friendly contest spot.  Paul and I briefly  renew our old 
friendship, I meet Bob for the first time and we all have a good laugh.

Rest In Peace, Old Friend,

Jim Neiger   N6TJ

On 11/7/2019 5:56 AM, py5eg wrote:
> Thanks God for the privilege to have  Paul as  a close friend for more than 4 decades
> RIP Brother
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> De: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] Em nome de w5wz at w5wz.com
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> Assunto: [CQ-Contest] N4PN
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> I met Paul on the air several years before meeting him in person at Dayton Hamvention 2007.  Me and K5ER were doing the Louisiana QSO Party as a rover.  About 15 minutes before the contest started, I had called CQ and Paul answered.  He asked what parishes we planned to activate in the 12 hours, and how much driving versus operating we were going to do.
>    We exchange that info, and when the contest started, N4PN was the first call in the log for each parish as we drove our route.  On the occassions we'd stop and set up a better antenna, Paul held the frequency for us and took lists for us; then he'd be first in the log and pass the list to us.  It was a great day.
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> I wrote about that experience in 2005:
> https://www.qsl.net/w5wz/laqp05.htm
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> And here's a great photo of me, K5ER and N4PN at Dayton 2009:
> http://hamgallery.com/dayton2009/d09016.htm
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> Another fine gentleman, and a friend now gone to the eternities.
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> 73 Paul
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> from W5WZ
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