[Harc] Some ham-spiritual thoughts

[Howard, KB6NN]

Jay, you are a card (as my parents used to say).  Keep up the good work and s.h.e.l.t.e.r.  :)
Howard
KB6NN
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On 6/2/2020 10:28 PM, MJ Inabnit via Harc wrote:
> 
> Greetings all,
> 
> Been a hell of a month here in Humboldt.  Tonight I was busy conducting
> an HF RELAY for a very worthy buddy of mine on the Sonoma/Mendo phone
> net who has to pull an all-nighter for AT&T, while also preparing for
> the ORCA HF digital net, when I heard something on the scanner--oh, the
> OTA HARC meeting was underway.  Wow, talk about multitasking!
> 
> By the way. OTA is "Over The Air."
> 
> First, I want to thank those hams that were willing to buy the gear from
> my friend Jim Gaynor's estate.  His bride, Eli, wanted me to take the
> gear and donate any money to HARC.  Eli now lives in Oregon, in an
> assisted living home.  I hope she is comfortable there, but I do miss
> her.  The onus was on me to find hams that would not only buy Jim's
> gear, but also USE that gear!  Jim was a huge fan of hamming and had a
> pretty damned impressive station.  Today, I delivered a high gain
> antenna, mount, and some feedline to one of our newest hams.  He already
> impresses me with his electronic flare.  We have some great hams shining
> in our ranks folks!  Now it comforts me knowing that a small part of Jim
> will remain "hamming it up".  Thank you all for that.
> 
> It was amazing when I clicked into our HARC email folder on my email
> client.  There were nearly 70 posts that had eluded my attention.
> 
> Most were folks responding to Jason's offer of lanyards!  Jason, you are
> TOO COOL!  You really made some major life long friends and then gave
> them something special on top of it.  You are amazing partner!  Keep up
> the good work.  I know you're too busy to think with the new one on the
> way, and moving to a new home.  I can't even imagine how you can do all
> that.   Three cheers for Jason ka6f!
> 
> There there were the field day posts.  It is so fun to see you guys
> stepping up to the plate during this crisis.  YES, we will have a Field
> Day this year.  Unlike any other year in HARC's history, it will be a
> "Multi Solo" Field Day event.  The event planning is still underway, and
> there will be more details to follow.
> 
> Back the the honor of our fallen SK's.  I quietly put the word out that
> after all these years of hamming barefoot, I found myself needing the
> help of a high power HF amplifier.  You guys responded so rapidly.  I
> had to decline the refrigerator sized 10KW amp, my shack just doesn't
> have the room for that!  But what did happen is that a local ham gave me
> an old kilowatt matchbox that needed a little repair.  Another ham
> stepped up to repair that matchbox.  Then I remembered one of our recent
> fallen hams--called his friend who is selling his gear and ended up with
> an old HF amp.  It's not just an amp.  It's my friends amp and it's now
> back on the air.  So this cheer is for Jim kw6jim--thank you Jim, a
> little bit of you is still hamming.  Thank you all for the help.
> 
> Finally an attaboy to all our HARC members.  You showed up tonight on
> the air and we had a very productive meeting--Even though Ben wouldn't
> acknowledge my Field Day plan of "we're going streaking on the quad".  I
> will strive to work on Ben's humor bone.
> 
> 73 all,   Thank you for your tenacity and radioactivity
> j
> 
> 



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