yes those things you never forget. we used to have long cw conversations.
Barb [log in to unmask]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, December 24, 2001 3:42 PM
Subject: Rick Haner


> Rick will be missed and I will never forget him.  I've told the story in
> detail before on here so I won't repeat it in detail again.  I met Rick
when
> I was a novice.  It was in the middle of the night, and after sending bk a
> dozen times, since he and his friend were almost five KHZ below my novice
> crystal frequency, one of them heard me.  They were rolling along at 40
> words per minute and I was fascinated.  I could copy at 25 WPM at the time
> so when they came to my rock frequency, they slowed down and I talked to
> them for an hour.  Rick and I became friends from that day on and talked
> many times on SSB and CW on different bands over the years.  Then, when
the
> internet rolled around, we emailed back and forth often.  Rick was not
only
> a good CW operator and ham, but he was a good person.  He was always quick
> to help and answer questions and he knew a lot about computers and
software.
> He emailed me when he started his cancer treatments to tell me what was
> going on.  I will miss him.  Although he has passed away, he will always
be
> in my heart and I will never forget that first CW contact we had together
> and how nice he was to me as a young 14 year old novice struggling to get
my
> code speed up.
>
> Phil.
> k0nx
>