[bars] QSL Card

[Richard T]

Well "Very Good Friend" hope your new call doesn't get nasty looks from
your YL but " Only Large Udders" may not be any better 😂
RichieT
W1RJT

On Sat, Aug 31, 2024, 6:06 PM Richard Heckbert <richard.heckbert at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
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> Thought you might find this interesting
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> Kevin Murphy, (who I know as I worked with him before retirement from
> Tufts) collects Postcard and QSL cards from Billerica and tends to post a
> lot of them on Facebook.  He just posted this on the Billerica Back in the
> Day group
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> According to the post 47 Pine Street is now 47 Alpine St
> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/47+Alpine+St?entry=gmail&source=g> in
> North Billerica (just down the street from the Chelmsford Bible Church!)
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> What is amazing to me is the bottom of the card.  It appears the card was
> printed by W1OLU who was my paternal grandfather who passed before I was
> born.   According to my Dad, he could do just about anything he set his
> mind to so seeing that he printed color QSL Cards in the 50’s does not
> surprise me in the least.  Kind of cool artwork too - Bunny with a
> microphone to match the card sender.
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> The story, told often by my dad, was my grandfather would phoneticize his
> call letters to W1 Old Ladies Underwear which would earn him a nasty look
> and a few strong words from my grandmother whenever she caught him saying
> it.
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> My Dad and I dragged his equipment out of my aunt’s basement back in the
> early 70’s in the hopes it was usable but unfortunately, time and dampness
> had destroyed most of the rubber and cloth wire insulation to the point
> where we thought it wasn’t safe to apply power.  Think very large microwave
> oven size! I did manage to save his microphone (since misplaced/lost) and
> more importantly, the metal plate from the front of the radio.
> Unfortunately, most of the black paint has been lost.
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> The writing says:
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>                 AMATEUR RADIO
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>                     W1OLU
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>                 MEDFORD, MASS
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> The exciting (to me) news is I am scheduled to be issued W1OLU as of this
> coming Wednesday!
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> Just thought I’d share with people who can appreciate.  My family not
> surprisingly didn’t get at all excited.
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> Rick
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> KC1VGF (Soon to be W1OLU)
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