As KN6OPI I first worked Dick, KN6LRN, on Jan 14, 1956 on 15m at 2303Z. Subsequent Q's on 2/12/56, 5/22/56 and 5/27/56.

But I believe we were friends through SFRC prior to our first on-the-air QSO; SFRC met in the Forest Hills Clubhouse near the Forest Hills Muni station above the Tunnel and we probably met in person there. I remember doing stuff (who knows what) locally with Dick, since we were both in SF . . me at the Beach at 48th and Santiago; not sure where Dick lived. I was doing 9th grade at AP Giannini Jr HS in the Sunset. I had many more on the air Q's with Joe, KN6LVT, down the peninsula.

Much later, I worked K6LRN as N6ZFO, having stumbled into the CQP on a Sat evening; that revived my interested in contesting. I had won the CW Sweepstakes for SF section in maybe 1958 with 126,000 points in the old system where a 1.25 power* multiplier was applied to the score. W6BIP did not compete that year.

73 Bill N6ZFO (K(N)6OPI

*One might think that 1.25 score mult was an approximate; My short writeup in the K6XX SS Handbook, shows that an independent calculation in ~2002 gives a "correct" multiplier of ~1.27. I did that calculation to show that multi-thousand $'s put into amps gives only a 25% or so score increase; a much smaller amount put into antennas often gives an equal or bigger dividend.

On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 7:37 AM, Robert Hess via NCCC <nccc@contesting.com> wrote:

62 years! That's impressive. Were you KN6LRN?

Bob

W1RH

From: Dick Wilson <k6lrn12@gmail.com>
To: nccc Reflector <nccc@contesting.com>; mother lode dx club <mldxcc@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2017 11:37 PM
Subject: [NCCC] WPX CW K6LRN SOAB HP

CQWW WPX Contest, CW

Call: K6LRN

Operator(s): K6LRN

Station: K6LRN

Class: SOAB HP

QTH: CQ

Operating Time (hrs): ~19

Summary:

Band QSOs

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160: 0

80: 3

40: 133

20: 338

15: 85

10: 1

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Total: 560 Prefixes = 335 Total Score = 389,270

Club: Northern California Contest Club

Comments:

310 1 pointers

55 2 pointers

130 3 "

19 4 "

46 6 "

A few Eu, only one AF. Thanks for the Qs. Next month 62 years

licensed...all same call.

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