I’m always yammering about how it’s a good thing to have a computer in the shack and am constantly encouraging hams to enter some information about themselves on QRZ.Com. When available, this information can make your QSOs much more interesting. Eariler this evening, I worked two guys where this was certainly the case.
The first contact was with Dave KD2OY. When I looked him up on QRZ.Com, his bio consisted of a single line of text:
search RADIO ROOM MITCHEL FIELD on web, Click on UNTITLED
I thought, “What the heck is that”? Instead, I typed his call into Google, and was pointed to this photo.
In the photo, we see Dave in an Army uniform, circa 1947, at the controls of the amateur radio station at the 52nd AACS Group HQ at Mitchel Fields, Long Island, NY. With him is a member of his unit to whom he was giving a ham radio demo. It looks like one heck of a station, and Dave commented that it was a lot of fun to operate.
Dave’s son, Mark, is now W2UFO, which was also the call of the Mitchel Fields ham station. Coincidentally, Dave said, Mark’s wife is also a ham. Her call is W2XYL. What a couple of great calls, eh?
The point of all this is that If I hadn’t had a computer in my shack, I couldn’t have looked up this photo, and the QSO would have not been so interesting.
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