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CHARGE A REGISTRATION FEE, BUT, TO GENERATE SOME MONEY FOR LETTERS AND
STAMPS TO NOTIFY THE CLUBS, AND LATER A FEW GIFTS FOR BINGO, THEY DECIDED
THAT THE HAMS SHOULD BRING SOME VALUABLE HAM GEAR THAT THEY THOUGHT PERHAPS
THEY COULD LIVE WITHOUT, BUT MIGHT ENRIC
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1,577,532 B C OL6P 808,947 C B LU7HN 1,071,954 C C KH7B 1,671,502 B C

FOR THE HAMFEST.  THAT WAS ABOUT MY THIRD DATE WITH ART, AND MY
INTRODUCTION TO HAM RADIO, AND I GUESS THE FIRST DAY OF THE REST OF MY
LIFE, BECAUSE WE STARTED GOING STEADY FROM THEN ON.  AND EVEN NOW, WITHOUT
ART, I DO SO ENJOY BEING WITH THE HAMS, AND WATCHING THEM CARRY ON THIS
WONDERFUL TRADITION.  THAT FIRST YEAR THAT I CAME WE HAD SUCH A WONDERFUL
TIME.  ART TOOK ME AROUND AND INTRODUCED ME TO EVERYONE.  I FELT LIKE I WAS
ONE OF THE FELLOWS RIGHT FROM THE START.  IN THE EVENINGS, WE WOULD SIT ON
BENCHES CIRCLED AROUND A CAMPFIRE.  THE FOREST RANGERS WOULD GIVE A TALK
ABOUT THE MOUNTAINS AROUND US, THE KINDS OF TREES, AND FLOWERS THAT GREW IN
THE PARK, AND THE KINDS OF BIRDS THAT WE COULD SEE AROUND THERE.
AFTERWARDS WE WOULD ALL SIT AND VISIT.  PERHAPS THERE WERE 20 OR 30 OF US
AT THE MOST.  IN THE MORNING, ARTS MOTHER WOULD FIX BREAKFAST FOR US,
BACON, EGGS, PANCAKES AND COFFEE OVER AN OPEN CAMPFIRE OUTDOORS.  I IMAGINE
RADIO MEETINGS WOULD START AROUND 10 AM, ALTHOUGH JUST THE FELLOWS ATTENDED
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2,818,912 A C EF1W 657,152 B B LU7EE 22,425 C A KH7X 1,844,352 A C UA9CLB
2,622,636 A C PD1DX 466,488 B B LU8EHR 2,418 C A KH6NF 884,390 A C JA2MWV

VINTAGE RADIO A HAM, A HAMFEST, K2TQN A LOVE STORY AND A BOTTLE OF BEER
WHAT DO THESE ALL HAVE IN COMMON?  WE TRAVEL TO MONTANA TO THE CLAIMED
OLDEST CONTINUOUS HAMFEST, OPEN SINCE 1934.  WHAT FOLLOWS IS A PORTION OF A
LETTER WRITTEN IN 1993 BY ANN JACQUES, MRS ART JACQUES, W7BOZ.  I FIRST MET
ART JACQUES IN THE SPRING OF 1936, THROUGH HIS SISTER, IRENE, WHO WAS A
CLASSMATE OF MINE.  OUR FIRST DATE WAS SWIMMING IN THE MISSOURI RIVER,
WHICH, OF COURSE WAS A NO NO, BUT WE WENT ANYWAY.  IT WAS MAY 1ST AND 80
DEGREES.  MY NEXT DATE WITH HIM WAS THE JUNIOR PROM THE END OF MAY AT THE
GREAT FALLS HIGH SCHOOL.  ARTS FOLKS TOOK TWO WEEKS VACATION UP AT TWO
MEDICINE LAKE EVERY YEAR WITH THEIR NEIGHBORS, THE STAFFORDS.  KNOWING ART,
HE COULDNT STAND BEING UP THERE BY HIMSELF, SO HE INVITED HIS FRIENDS UP
THERE TOO, AND, OF COURSE, ALL HIS FRIENDS WERE RADIO HAMS.  THERE WERE SO
MANY HAMS THAT LIVED RIGHT AROUND GLACIER PARK IT WAS EASY FOR THEM TO COME
OVER FOR THE WEEKEND TOO.  IM ALSO SURE THAT IT WAS AT ARTS SUGGESTION,
THAT IRENE INVITE MILDRED HAUG AND ME TO GO CAMPING WITH HER AND HER FOLKS
AT TWO MEDICINE LAKE THE THIRD WEEKEND IN JULY, WHICH WAS THE THIRD YEAR
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963,928 A B IZ1JLF 119,808 B A ZX5J 1,903,066 B C VK3TZ 77,616 A B RU9AC
742,840 A B F5CYS 73,080 B A PJ2X 1,012,220 B C YE1AA 50,875 A B 5B4AII
3,748,250 A C IZ2FOS 856,231 B B LP1H 939,872 B C VK4TT 3,425 A B RG9A
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