[bars] QSL Card

[Juan Jiménez]

"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."

My kind of HAM radio man!

73,
K1CPR
*Crazy Puerto Rican*
Juan


On Sat, Aug 31, 2024 at 6:17 PM Richard T <radiohamateur at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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,
>>
>>
>>
>> Thought you might find this interesting
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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!)
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> The writing says:
>>
>>                 AMATEUR RADIO
>>
>>                     W1OLU
>>
>>                 MEDFORD, MASS
>>
>>
>>
>> The exciting (to me) news is I am scheduled to be issued W1OLU as of this
>> coming Wednesday!
>>
>>
>>
>> Just thought I’d share with people who can appreciate.  My family not
>> surprisingly didn’t get at all excited.
>>
>>
>>
>> Rick
>>
>> KC1VGF (Soon to be W1OLU)
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