For those interested, and everyone should be, Jim's website is still online at
www.n2hos.com where he wrote a small autobiography (go to the Learning Center
link) that is a must-read. Besides Ham Radio, Jim enjoyed photography and
painting. Shots of some of his paintings are still on the website.
Unfortunately, his newsletters are no longer there. I got a little teary-eyed
re-reading his words.
An interesting fact about Jim is that he replaced the infamous Curt Gowdy at
KFBC in Cheyenne, WY for a short while when Curt went off to war.
Jim was certainly an interesting fellow.
73, Don AA5AU
>________________________________
> From: Kok Chen <chen@mac.com>
>To: RTTY Reflector <rtty@contesting.com>
>Cc: Frank Fallon <n2ff@optonline.net>
>Sent: Wednesday, February 1, 2012 2:33 PM
>Subject: Re: [RTTY] Jim Mortensen, N2HOS SK
>
>On Feb 1, 2012, at 6:57 AM, Frank Fallon wrote:
>
>> Born in Montana he saw action with the 101st Airborne in WWII and then
>> worked in advertising in
>> NYC and lived in Westchester, NY before moving to Florida.
>
>Just a small correction: 82nd Airborne. The following is from an email that I
>received from Jim in 2008:
>
>> Ah yes, I was in the Bulge, in the 82nd Airborne, from first to last. I
>> wound up wounded and decorated, but saw it all.
>
>The reason this came up is because one of my advisors from school days was in
>the US Army Air Force in the Battle of the Bulge. Jim was in the paratroops.
>
>73
>Chen, W7AY
>
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