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[IRCA] Home from convention
Returned safe and sound from convention, following 11-hour drive from Santa Fe to Krum. Got up at 5:30 a.m. to get to Santa Fe to pick up my wife for the return trip.
Hit the hay after entertaining auction but before group picture ... (temptation to insert cliché about possilbly breaking the camera resisted) ... Tours were entertaining and enjoyable ... thought of Scot Fybush while running around ABQ taking tower site pictures ... lady stepped out of her house to ask what in the world we were taking pictures of in her neighborhood, and was satisfied with explanation ... she even knew where Krum, Texas, was having come from North Texas to Albuquerque. Delighted to see Bill Nittler after four and a half decades ... plus several others I've jabbered with along the way. (I think Bill Block and Frank Merrill were the only ones in Albuquerque who attended the only other IRCA convention I did -- Columbus OH in (my memory said '74 but others corrected to '75.)
Shared Corvallis/Albany H.S. rivalry stories with Doug Pifer ... learned that Dave Williams and I were on Oregon State campus about the same time ... enjoyed chauffeuring Dave, Nigel Pimblett and Stan Weisback on excursions from headquarters ... Kudos to the organizers and the publishers and other volunteers ... nice, to, to be updated on some other old friends who weren't able to attend the gathering. Y'all are keeping a couple of good things going ... the AM DX hobby and this 46-year-old club.
Qal R. Mann, Krumudgeon
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