[NCC] Doc and TUP

[Thomas Roscoe]

Hi Dave,
I added your comments at
http://hamgallery.com/qsl/country/Anguilla/vp2ee.htm
Mni tnx,
Tom K8CX


On 11/25/2015 8:40 PM, Dave Zeph wrote:
> I'm sure those were the "good old days" for many of us.  I think that was my
> last operation outside the US in a Contest.  I'd been in Anguilla the year
> before with PJ2MI's QSL Manage, Bert Iseman - can't remember his VE3 Call,
> I think we were the first trying for a License on Anguilla since the British
> made Amphibious and Airborne landings when Anguilla rebelled from being
> forced into an Associated State with St. Kitts and Nevis.  There were
> various stories about the Communists and Mafia ..........
>
> There was no "prefix' for Anguilla.  Bert brought a letter from the ARRL
> suggesting VP2E - the "E" for Eel which is how Anguilla translates.  We met
> with the British High Commissioner.  I had really looked forward to it, but
> shortly after we returned to Sint Maarten I cam down with whatever "bug'
> VP2LA's son had when I stayed with him in St. Lucia the previous week!!  I
> spent the CQWW kneeling in front of the Porcelain Throne - and I gave my bug
> to everyone I had been around on Sint Maaten - including he Doctor at the
> hospital and the nuns.  Serves them right for sticking a rectal thermometer
> where they didn't belong!
>
> The next year I went back with then-W9ZTD (now WF5E), K9RHN, W9WW, and
> PJ2MI.  A friend of PJ2MI took us to Anguilla in a boat and the British let
> us land at a dock for Customs Inspection, and then sail ariund to the beach
> where the hotel was located.  We off-loaded in the surf at which time I
> managed to get a first-class sunburn.  Antennas supports were largely
> improvised from scraps of pipe and wood.  The "Verticl-in-the-ocean" worked
> like gangbusters
>
> The people who owned the hotel had purchased their land through the
> authorities on St. Kitts - resulting in them not being accepted by the local
> population.  Their twin engine airplane and three-phase generator had been
> sabotaged and ruined.  The British steered folks like us their direction.
> The owner's wife could turn a Sow's ear into a Silk Purse and the Brits
> brought her their rations which she turned into great food.  I went with her
> to buy and pay for our food.  What she did with what I saw was a miracle.
>
> Lots of really good memories - and times I thought would never end.  Now the
> same stretch of beach that cost us $60/day, goes for well over $1000-$2000
> per day.  Of course the quarters are more magnificent - but the beach is
> still the same.
>
> Excuse my reminiscing ............
>
>
>
> 73 --> Dave, W9PA (ex-W9ZRX & VP2EE circa 1970)
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NCC [mailto:ncc-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Thomas Roscoe
> Sent: Wednesday, 25 November, 2015 19:54
> To: ncc at contesting.com
> Subject: [NCC] Doc and TUP
>
> Dave Zeph W9ZRX / W9PA gave me several boxes of QSL cards for my QSL
> Museum and HamGallery a few years ago. I just went through one and found
> a couple of goodies that you will be interested in. Check these out!
> http://hamgallery.com/qsl/country/USA/Ohio/wa8zdf.htm
> http://hamgallery.com/qsl/country/USA/Pennsylvania/k3tup2.htm
> GL to all in WW!
> Tom K8CX
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