Hi Buddy, and all,
That's what i thought.
I use to enjoy listening to him on the air.
To bad he had so much misfortion.
Thanks 73 Matt ka0pqw
----- Original Message -----
From: "Buddy Brannan" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 9:40 AM
Subject: Re: AnPaul, WA5FHP
> Otis has really had his share of bad fortune. Yes, I think his daughter =
> was killed, could be more than one. Seem to recall something about that =
> in the =9290=92s. Anyway, yes, he=92s gone, but only within the past =
> couple years or so.=20
> --
> Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
> Phone: (814) 860-3194 or (814) 431-0962
>
>
>
>
> On May 19, 2014, at 9:16 AM, Matt Arthur <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>> I don't remember Paul but i have talked to Otis k5swk back in the =
> 80's.
>> I havn't heard him on for years.
>> I suppose he is gone.
>> I think his dauter was killed in a car acccsedent back in the 80's.
>> very interesting.
>> Thanks 73 Matt ka0pqw
>> ----- Original Message -----=20
>> From: "Buddy Brannan" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 7:54 AM
>> Subject: Re: AnPaul, WA5FHP
>>=20
>>=20
>>> Ah, Otis, K5SWK. Now there=3D92s a call I will always remember =
> fondly.
>>>=20
>>> Only talked to him a couple times. He was very tolerant of my crappy =
> SSB =3D
>>> and what not.=3D20
>>>=20
>>> But man, did he have a signal. He keyed his transmitter, you heard =
> the =3D
>>> *Snap*, and all the background noise went away. And what audio he =
> had!=3D20=3D
>>>=20
>>>=20
>>> Helluva op. He=3D92ll surely be missed.=3D20
>>> On May 19, 2014, at 6:35 AM, Mike Duke, K5XU <[log in to unmask]> =
> wrote:
>>>=20
>>>> Jim and all,
>>>> =3D20
>>>> I remember Paul very well.
>>>> =3D20
>>>> I actually talked with him a few times while I was running a =
> Viking=3D20
>>>> Valiant while in high school.
>>>> =3D20
>>>> Paul made the longest non bulletin type transmission I ever heard.
>>>> =3D20
>>>> It was New Year's Eve of 1968, the year before I passed my Novice=3D20=
>
>>>> license. He had been into the punch bowl way too heavy by 7 PM.
>>>> =3D20
>>>> He was so drunk he could hardly say his call. Somebody came on=3D20
>>>> frequency running a set of drake twins and a linear on AM, and he=3D20=
>
>>>> landed on them for running "such low power." Over and over again =
> he=3D20
>>>> said "Go somewhere and find a real radio!:"
>>>> =3D20
>>>> This rant went on for at least 30 minutes.
>>>> =3D20
>>>> I found other things to do, and other people to listen too, but
>>>> when=20=
>
>>>> I=3D20=3D
>>>=20
>>>> tuned across him again just after midnight of the new year, he =
> was=3D20
>>>> still at it. By then, he had turned up his audio, or mis-tuned=3D20
>>>> something to the point that he was at least 30 khz wide.
>>>> =3D20
>>>> I think his rig at the time was a pair of 833 tubes modulated by=3D20
>>>> another pair. Anyway, I could hear him, or K5SWK in Houston, TX, =
> any=3D20=3D
>>>=20
>>>> time of the day or night they got on the air.
>>>> =3D20
>>>> =3D20
>>>> =3D20
>>>> Original message:
>>>>> Hi everyone, I remember a guy here that used to run am from =
> deQuincy =3D
>>> =3D3D
>>>>> Louisiana anyone rember Paul Wb5-fhp?
>>>>> Jim
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----=3D3D20
>>>>> From: Mike Duke, K5XU=3D3D20
>>>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>>> Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2014 8:57 PM
>>>>> Subject: Re: Another Character
>>>> =3D20
>>>> =3D20
>>>>> Phil,
>>>> =3D20
>>>>> Yes, that was him, K6KPS.
>>>> =3D20
>>>>> I knew he had died, but I didn't know that about the amplifier =3D
>>> being=3D3D20
>>>>> the cause of it.
>>>> =3D20
>>>>> --=3D3D20
>>>>> Mike Duke, K5XU
>>>> =3D20
>>>> --=3D20
>>>> Mike Duke, K5XU
>>>=20
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