Re: [IRCA] Non-TPs from Orcas Island

[satya@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Hey John:

As one of the guys who got to see you this past season, and in fact
finally meet you in person, it was indeed a pleasure to DX with you and
get to know you!  Hopefully we will meet again next season at Salt Creek
for a little "pseudo-motel" DXing.  Have a fun and safe trip back to
Oklahoma, and let me know when the gear you kindly borrowed to me should
be entrusted to the post office.

Kevin S
Bainbridge Island, WA


> I had my worst TP morning of this trip.... mainly because I packed my
> radios yesterday. Today is final packing and then tomorrow we head
> down I-5 to Bakersfield/Barstow and hang a left. We are going to try
> to break the trip up some this year, with a day here and half a day
> there, so it will likely be about a week before we make it to the
> South Prairie in Oklahoma.
>
> Thanks very much from all of the help from the other members of the
> NW Gang. One of the real pleasures of DXing out here is having such
> close friends to enjoy this insanity along side.  My only regret is
> that I got to see so few of you in person.  I totally missed the
> Victoria guys this year and saw far less than half of the Seatac
> crowd. Still, we've been doing this together long enough that is a
> good visit, if only by e-mail. It was exactly twenty years ago this
> February that Guy and I made that fabled first tip to the Grayland
> motel. We heard almost every Pacific Island nation, including Tuvalu
> and were hooked on TPs on MW. In March of 1990, there was a massive
> DXpedition at the Grayland Beach State Park with Dave Clark from
> Toronto and more than half of the NW group that is still making trips
> down there.
>
> I got a real laugh a couple of months ago when several of us were
> discussing a lovely campground west of Port Angeles on the Washington
> side of the Strait of Juan de Fuca. It looks like a perfect place for
> fall DXpeditions for Asia. Nick Hall-Patch pointed out that the worst
> thing about this place was that one had to CAMP OUT. He allowed as
> maybe the soft beds, flush toilets and complete kitchens in the
> Grayland Motel units had spoiled him for the vagaries of CAMPING
> OUT.  Why I remember full well the DXpeditions in the 80s and first
> half of the 90s when Nick drove his little pickup truck to various DX
> sites and DXed mosta the night from the cab and then slept half the
> day in the seated position.... all in the cab of that little truck. I
> also remember going potty in the deep brush while keeping watch (both
> ways) for the local mama bear and her cub.
>
> Time marches on, eh????
>
> It's been a fabulous Fall Season... I hope that each of my
> co-conspirators enjoyed it at least half as much as I did!
>
> John B.
> WinRadio 313e + Ultralights
> Wellbrook Phased Arrays, SW and NW
> Grayland, WA, USA
>
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