[TenTec] Calls??

[RaySoifer@cs.com]

In a message dated 1/13/06 7:38:49 AM GMT Standard Time, w8au at sssnet.com 
writes: 
> Gee, Ray, what happened to K2QBW?  I have your QSL from the seventies...
> and what about that Sputnik reception back in 1957?  Was it KN2QBW then?
> Still chasing satellites?
> :-)
> 
> Perry   w8au   (w8vyu in 1955-75)
> 
No, I stopped being KN2QBW in early 1956.  I've had several other calls along 
the way in various places, but in 1976 I switched from K2QBW to W2RS, in part 
because the call was available and I didn't want anyone else to get it, and 
in part because a lot of people were confusing me with my friend Joel, K2QBV, 
also a DXer and still K2QBV.  Now, after 30 years, W2RS is me and vice versa 
:-)

I'm not very active on satellites any more -- kinda been there, done that -- 
but I still have fun managing and operating in SKN on OSCAR every year.  I 
also do the occasional demo operation of the FM satellites for local radio clubs, 
showing the people how easy it is to get on with a dual-band HT and a simple 
antenna.  Mostly, though, I like to work DX on CW, more often than not 40 or 
80 meters.  Come to think of it, that's what I did 50 years ago too....

Enough for now, thanks for the bandwidth guys.

73,

Ray W2RS