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Elfstone44 · 02-07-2015, 19:27

Thanks Tim, actually I still have a bug and my CW skills are pretty good still...one doesn't forget how to ride a bicycle.

As for that attack on FOB-4, I missed it by two days....I passed through there on 25 Aug 68 coming from FOB-2 Kontum heading out on R&R to Bangkok. Sat on the beach and watched a cruiser come boiling up over the horizon, level off about 2 kliks from shore and bombard some target for 30 min, then put the hammer down and with a huge rooster tail head back over the horizon...great theater...from a "Japanese on Iwo Jima" prospective.

I will be testing my 109 next weekend. I have no crystals but those are $10 a piece on the web. And who knows, when this wanderlust gets out of my system, going back to Ham radio seems somehow more pure than the internet.

02-07-2015, 19:27	#31
Elfstone44 Asset Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Virginia Posts: 10	Thanks Tim, actually I still have a bug and my CW skills are pretty good still...one doesn't forget how to ride a bicycle. As for that attack on FOB-4, I missed it by two days....I passed through there on 25 Aug 68 coming from FOB-2 Kontum heading out on R&R to Bangkok. Sat on the beach and watched a cruiser come boiling up over the horizon, level off about 2 kliks from shore and bombard some target for 30 min, then put the hammer down and with a huge rooster tail head back over the horizon...great theater...from a "Japanese on Iwo Jima" prospective. I will be testing my 109 next weekend. I have no crystals but those are $10 a piece on the web. And who knows, when this wanderlust gets out of my system, going back to Ham radio seems somehow more pure than the internet.
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