[RTTY] Jim Mortensen, N2HOS SK

[Don AA5AU]

For those interested, and everyone should be, Jim's website is still online at www.n2hos.com where he wrote a small autobiography (go to the Learning Center link) that is a must-read.  Besides Ham Radio, Jim enjoyed photography and painting.  Shots of some of his paintings are still on the website.  Unfortunately, his newsletters are no longer there.  I got a little teary-eyed re-reading his words.

An interesting fact about Jim is that he replaced the infamous Curt Gowdy at KFBC in Cheyenne, WY for a short while when Curt went off to war.

Jim was certainly an interesting fellow.

73, Don AA5AU



>________________________________
> From: Kok Chen <chen at mac.com>
>To: RTTY Reflector <rtty at contesting.com> 
>Cc: Frank Fallon <n2ff at optonline.net> 
>Sent: Wednesday, February 1, 2012 2:33 PM
>Subject: Re: [RTTY] Jim Mortensen, N2HOS  SK
> 
>On Feb 1, 2012, at 6:57 AM, Frank Fallon wrote:
>
>> Born in Montana he saw action with the 101st Airborne in WWII and then worked in advertising in 
>> NYC and lived in Westchester, NY before moving to Florida. 
>
>Just a small correction: 82nd Airborne.  The following is from an email that I received from Jim in 2008:
>
>> Ah yes, I was in the Bulge, in the 82nd Airborne, from first to last. I wound up wounded and decorated, but saw it all.
>
>The reason this came up is because one of my advisors from school days was in the US Army Air Force in the Battle of the Bulge.  Jim was in the paratroops.
>
>73
>Chen, W7AY
>
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