Me too. ... I haven't been there since 2008!

Tom Behler: KB8TYJ


-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Gerry Leary
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 7:23 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Ham radio spawns forever friendships!

I sure hope you get there one of these days

Sent from my iPhone this time 

> On May 11, 2015, at 7:04 PM, Tom Behler <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> No, Gerry, I'm not.
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> It's just not in the cards for this year.
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> Maybe next year!
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> Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Gerry Leary
> Sent: Monday, May 11, 2015 8:13 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Ham radio spawns forever friendships!
> 
> Hello Tom, are you going to Dayton?
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> Sent from my iPhone this time=20
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>> On May 10, 2015, at 4:27 PM, Tom Behler <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> You are oh, so correct, Ron!
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>> I, too have many long-standing friendships that started as a result 
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>> great hobby, and fortunately for me, many of those friendships remain 
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>> viable today.
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>> Even on this great list, I feel I have many friends who I don't know 
>> personally, but have gotten to know through the magic of e-mail and 
>> the internet.
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>> In my view, it shows just how versatile and flexible this hobby of 
>> ours ca=
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>> Good luck with the move into the new house!
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>> Keep us posted on how that goes, and with your progress on setting up 
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>> new shack at the new home QTH.
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>> Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: For blind ham radio operators
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]=
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>> On Behalf Of Dr. Ronald E. Milliman
>> Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2015 11:58 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Ham radio spawns forever friendships!
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>> Ham radio spawns forever friendships!
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>> I am sharing this with you to illustrate the subject of this message. 
>> I  first met Rick Hamilton, WB5VQW, in 1974, some 41 years ago. We 
>> met when I=
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>> joined the ham radio club in Arlington Texas. I was a new, Assistant 
>> Professor on the faculty of the University of Texas at Arlington, and 
>> at that time, the club was holding their meetings right there on the 
>> UT Arlington's campus. Rick and I hit it off immediately. He was one 
>> of those=
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>> military brats, as they often refer to themselves, that had traveled 
>> all over the world and been exposed to the best of humanity and to 
>> the
> worse.
>> So, unlike many people, Rick was not even slightly hesitant to come 
>> right over to me and introduce himself and strike up a vigorous 
>> conversation, asking about my rig, how I was able to tune my 
>> transmitter, etc., etc. Tha=
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>> was the beginning of a long and mutually rewarding friendship. We 
>> participated in hidden transmitter hunts together, fiend day events 
>> together, put up antennas, went fishing together, and even 
>> accidentally blew-up a few pieces of ham gear together. Rick worked 
>> in the Vought division of the Ling-Temeo- Vought Aerospace Corp. 
>> (LTV), in the daytime a=
> nd
>> attended the university at night. So, he even ended up taking my 
>> Basic Marketing course, and every night after class, he and another 
>> ham buddy wh=
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>> was also in my course, went out for coffee and talked ham radio.=20
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>> This weekend Rick and his wife, Karen, WB5UFM, traveled up here to 
>> Bowling=
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>> Green Kentucky in their RV to visit on their way to the FMCA Amateur 
>> Radio=
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>> Club's Rallies/Campout being held just north of here in Cave City 
>> Kentucky=
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>> Our visit started Friday afternoon when they arrived and got setup in 
>> our local KOA Campground, and yesterday we took them over to show 
>> them our new=
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>> house and then, down to the L&M Train Station where they have a 
>> special exhibit for Mother's Day weekend. We enjoyed a guided tour 
>> through one of the old, original steam engine trains and saw numerous 
>> model train sets th=
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>> were fully operational and on display. After a full day of touring 
>> the are=
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>> and visiting, we finally wrapped it up late last night. Today, Rick 
>> and Karen are heading up to the FMCA Amateur Radio Club', and Palma 
>> and I are back to packing and preparing for our big move even though 
>> it is Mother's Day. Our new house is going to have to serve as our 
>> Mother's Day, Father's=
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>> Day, Christmas, and birth day gifts for the rest of our lives!! <lol> 
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>> I suspect many of you have enjoyed similar friendships as a result of 
>> ham  radio.
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>> Ron, K8HSY
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>> Dr. Ronald E. Milliman
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>> Retired Professor of Marketing