“Did you know Karl, K5DI?”
I just saw the friend I previously mentioned and asked him if he knew either of the people you mentioned, and a big smile came across his face when I mentioned Karl, K5DI. So though I’m not sure if I’m familiar with Karl, my friend certainly is. There’s that saying about some number of degrees of knowing people, and I guess we’re fairly close in there! I didn’t finally move to New Mexico until ‘90 or ‘91, so our timeframes are just a bit different. It’s still a fairly small, tight knit type community in these parts, but it certainly has grown, especially the whole Cruces and El Paso area.
Karl was a colorful character. He was pretty good builder. Think his amp was a 4CX-1000 if I remember correctly. driving the grids with an Argonaut. smile.
I spent time in AZ too. Was a member of the Cochise amateur radio assoc. in Sierra Vista. Made a good number of friends there too.
But I was HF mobile every day, with UHF & VHF too. Drove a couple of million miles with a wired auto. smile. Good memories driving through the mountains in NM and AZ and working the world.
Great community.