Hi Phil

I am pleased to report that Bill is still up and kicking, and active on the
bands.
I worked him on ten metres just a couple of weeks ago.
He still lives in Oak Ridge, but I am not sure what gear he is running
nowadays.
Along with Terry, GM3WUX; me and Dave, W4CI; he is one of the four blind
members of FOC of which you can only maintain your membership by being
active on the bands with cow.

73

David W Wood 

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Sent: Friday, April 24, 2015 11:59 PM
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Subject: Old Hams

Years ago, back in the early 1980s, a friend of mine, K4LTA, Bill from Oak 
Ridge Tennessee, introduced me to a buddy of his.  By the way, I haven't run

across K4LTA for a long time so I'm wondering if anybody has heard him on 
the air.  Bill was a contester in nearly every contest he could find.  He 
went to the Caribbean once or twice a year, often with his wife and local DX

club members including his own brother, and they would operate from many of 
the islands during their two week stay.  They often , during those two 
weeks, went to other islands to operate and I worked Bill from many of those

places over the years.  Bill is blind and runs all Ten Tec gear except for 
his amp, or that used to be the case.  They also went during contest 
weekends as a club and operated.  His friend was, I think this was Claude's 
call, W4EX and Claude was not only a big DX guy but he loved 160 meter DX as

well.  That's not what impressed me with Claude.  At age 80, Claude climbed 
his guide 120 Rohn 45G tower.  His 15 year old grandson stayed on the 
ground; a couple of ropes in his hands.  Together, they put up a 5 element 
20 meter beam.  I have not been able to climb my tower for about 15 years 
and here was an 80 year old man, putting up his own beam with his grandson 
helping by doing the ground work.  Now that's impressive.

Phil.
K0NX