Topband: Spot: N5J 1828.5 up 1

[Wes Stewart]

I worked K6LPL too.  Jan Gould, WA6YQW, was seriously injured in the plane crash.  Jan was airlifted to Hawaii where she was treated at the Trippler US Army Hospital.  She had a broken leg and back and IIRC a broken pelvis.  She was put into a body cast and traction.
I talked to Jan several times after this and remember the following:  (It's been over 40 years, so I'll do my best.)
Jan went to the military hospital because her husband was retired Navy. While there an orderly mistakenly lifted her out of bed and put her in a wheelchair.  She was re-injured by this and her other treatment was just as bad.  So they decided to airlift her back to CA and treat her at Anaheim Memorial Hospital.  A trust fund had been set up to help with expenses.  They were uninsured and wound up selling their house to pay expenses.  So when I talked to her she was living with a daughter in Montana, or Idaho.  She was still suffering trauma from this both physical and mental.  She told me that she had nightmares, about being trapped in the airplane, bathed in gasoline.  Whether that was real or not I do not know but it was what tormented her.  I was working a temporary second shift so I was on the radio in the wee hours after getting home and that is when she was up, unable to sleep.  My job changed and I lost track of her.

Wes  N7WS

ps. Some of the foregoing was gleaned from The DX Bulletin, archived at https://www.yasme.org/dx-bulletin/  fascinating reading.

    On Sunday, August 11, 2024 at 12:11:47 AM MST, Mike Fatchett W0MU <w0mu at w0mu.com> wrote:  
 
 We have had Tstorms all afternoon and Condx are not good but N5J is very 
easy to copy on the Xmit Vertical.  No Rcv antennas currently.  Worked 
them with base loaded 80m vertical and some power.

Lots of new bands for me.  I worked K6LPL back in 1980 on 10 and 15 
SSB.  This group had nothing but trouble.  They crash landed on 
Palmyra.  They had to evac  people out twice if I recall.

W0MU


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