KØODF was a call sign I hadn't heard since my High School days in Nebraska.
Lynn, from Chadron, NE, told me about his days as a train dispatcher, and he knew a Train Agent as well as other folks from my home town of O'neill, NE.      I instantly recalled Lynn's voice from the 70's, when he called into the NE Phone Nets, and I was a budding NCS. This surprise SKN QSO was full of nostalgia from my earliest years on the air.
I enjoyed other QSOs with: Bill-W2WLD, Ken-K9KO, Keving-KF9AQ, Charlie-N4AV, Mike-KBØHXL, and Denny-WAØJLY.
My equipment this year was:  IC-706MkII, a Kent Key, and a adipole up 30ft.

73, George, WBØCNK, Overland Park, KS.