[SEDXC] Curt George, W4SSU

[John Harden]

Paul,

Gordon Jones (SK and W4COO) lived on West Paces Ferry Road at Northside 
Drive. In fact one of his children lives in that home now. He was 
Chairman of the Fulton National Bank. Wallace Carpenter, K4TJL, was a 
Vice-President of the bank and also lived on West Paces Ferry Rd. They 
were good friends to say the least.

Wally had a Collins 30S-1 amplifier (and so did I years ago) and he sent 
it to Collins and said "I need more power out"!! Collins could raise the 
screen voltage on the 4CX-1000A and get a little more out, but not 
enough to really make any difference. I substituted a 4CX-1500B and that 
DID make a difference. The power supply was more than robust enough.

In the old days Bob Hudson (W4HR, and before that W4MCM) lived on Ross 
Drive in East Point where I grew up. Curtis George (W4SSU) lived on 
Barge Road in SW Atlanta. K4RPK (Lee Foster) also lived in SW Atlanta. 
All three were Delta Pilots. They were all DX mentors for K4TEA and I 
and we used to go to their homes together. I saw my first Collins S-line 
at K4RPK's QTH in 1960 (75S-1 es 32S-1).

Lee Foster had one of the premier DX signals in Atlanta with his 4 el 
Telrex monobander on a 36 foot boom. Curtis George had a 5 el 20 on a 
windmill tower. They all had big signals. Buck Joyner (W4TO &  also in 
SW Atlanta) had the biggest signal of all. He was an Eimac rep and had a 
big amp that nobody ever saw that I knew of (I believe a pair of Eimac 
4-1000A's). He also had monobanders which very few had in the early 
1960's. K4TEA and K4TKM used to play touch football in his yard.

I treasure the memories of those great guys. The rule was big smoke, 
lots of aluminum and up as high as possible.

73,

John, W4NU
K4JAG 1959 to 1998

On 12/24/2011 12:00 AM, Paul Newberry wrote:
> Dave:
> I called John, K4BAI, as soon as I got my QST. Shows my age for sure when
> the
> "Silent Keys" is where I go first. It's always a shock when I see someone
> who has
> touched my life in some way thru ham radio. Curt did.
> We made several trips together along with his buddy, Bob, (W4MCM) W4HR.
> It was always nice to have a couple of, and sometimes more, captains with
> the
> airlines. Bob and Curt were both captains with Delta. We never worried about
> overrage charges with the equipment. John, W4NU, mentioned the "big signals"
> out
> of Atlanta back in the days, but there was another one on West Paces Ferry
> Road,
> that would light up your radio - Wally Carpenter, K4TJL. He was President of
> the SEDXC back in the early days. Meetings were held in downtown Atlanta
> in the old Fulton National Bank building, where Wally was the president, I
> think.
> Again, as I saw that call in QST, it brought back nothing but great memories
> of
> those "good ole days". Sure these guys are having their own hamfest - W4SSU,
> W4HR, K4RPK, W4BFR, K4EZ and other OT's.
> RIP Curt,
> 73, Paul
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Thompson"<thompson at mindspring.com>
> To:<sedxc at contesting.com>;<sedxc at yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 8:48 PM
> Subject: Re: [SEDXC] Curt George, W4SSU
>
>
>> John W4NU advised SEDXC that Curt W4SSU (listed in the January 2012 QST
>> silent keys) passed away probably last fall.
>>
>> Curt as John noted was an early SEDXC DXer and perhaps a Charter SEDXC
>> member.  I only met him one time at a 1969 Hamfest held at Northlake Mall
>> when I was working between Atlanta and Jackson, MS.  He had moved into
>> county hunting
>> along with Paul N4PN and John K4BAI.  He worked all counties (maybe
>> several
>> times) and kept his DXCC score up to date at least through the late
>> 1980's.
>>
>> I remember his loud signal on 20 while in Natchez and Jackson.
>>
>> RIP Curt
>> Dave K4JRB
>>
>>
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