Phil,

Thanks.  I used visit radio club sites when I was Section Manager.  Nebraska is a large state.  I'd get up at 2 or so and head west to the furthest site I could get to reasonably and then I'd visit sites on the way back.  It was a lot of fun.  And it still pays back.  I will meet people at hamfests who remark about the visit I made to their site a decade ago.  It definitely built good relations for me and for the League.

Oh -- food eaten for amateur radio purposes has no calories. 

73, Art

That's fantastic news about the new grandchild, Art! And FB on the Collins KWM-2.

I visited nine different club field day sites across two sections this weekend.  I had hoped to visit more, but it's hard to tear yourself away when folks want to chat with you about the League or insist that you have a bite to eat or a snack. ;-)  There goes my diet!

73,

Phil Temples, K9HI

On Sun, Jun 26, 2022 at 4:14 PM Art Zygielbaum <k0aiz@arrl.org> wrote:

This was a great weekend for a couple of reasons.  On Friday, our newest subharmonic appeared.  Isaac Armas Zygielbaum arrived on Friday afternoon in Torrance, CA.  He is our first grandson.  He joins two older sisters (2 and 4 years old).  His picture is included below.

As some of you know, the newest facet of my ham radio hobby has been to collect one each of all the radios I owned or had access to as a teenager.  (June 28 will be the 61st anniversary of my first ham license.)  Being a teen without a lot of money, my radios tended to used and fairly inexpensive.  Every field day one of our club members, a rich doctor, brought his Collins KWM-2 to our club field day site.  I lusted after that radio.  It cost $1,751 in 1962.  (That's close to $17,000 in today's dollars.)

I bought one,  I finished recapping it, replacing bad tubes, etc., last Thursday night.  I operated Class 1D using that radio during this field day.  Pretty amazing.  It's been nearly 60 years since the last time I operated a KWM-2 during field day.  It's picture, in my basement boat-anchor-shack also appears below.

Hope you all had a great weekend.

73 Art K0AIZ

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ARRL Midwest Division Director
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Member, Programs and Services Committee
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