What fantastic stories. Great to know there are people like you guys around!
Bravo Zulu!
> From: k4zm@comcast.net
> To: k4avx1@windstream.net; tentec@contesting.com
> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 15:16:23 -0600
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] I'm old but I'm slow....
>
> Glad to be able to help out John. Good to know that there are still hams
> around that are willing to do for those less fortunate.
>
> I have to relate a story that happened at the Orlando Hamfest. I was
> working in the Vibroplex Booth and visited the Elecraft booth to chat with
> Eric one of the owners of Elecraft. I had built several K2's for
> handicapped hams and he ask if I had a card so I gave him a few and later in
> the day a gentleman walked up to the Vibroplex booth asking for me. He was
> having real difficulty in talking so I put two and two together and ask him
> if he had a stroke to which he said yes. I ask him what I could do for him
> and he said he had started building an Elecraft K1 and had the stroke and
> was looking for someone to finish it for him and Eric had told him about
> me. I gave him my card with my address on it and told him to mail the radio
> and parts to me and I would be glad to complete and align it for him. He
> ask how much and I said no charge you just pay for the freight back to his
> home. He thanked me and I think I even detected a little tear in his eye.
> He mailed me the radio and I checked over the work he had done and corrected
> a couple of mistakes and completed the build and the alignment in two days
> and then kept it on for 48 hours making contacts randomly with it to be sure
> there were no surprises and then returned it back to him. He sent me the
> nicest thank you note and a check for the shipping charges and a nice added
> amount with a note that said he could afford it and to pass it on to a ham
> who couldn't.
>
> Ham radio is a wonderful thing. I have never charged anyone for repairs
> unless the insisted on paying. The reason is that as a very new and very
> young ham I built a Heathkit DX-100 in 1957 and it had a problem I was
> unable to locate so a local ham offered to look at it for me. He found one
> little strand of a wire in the driver section shorting to ground and clip it
> out. He told me how good a job I did building it and then I ask how much I
> owed him and he said $25.00. In 1957 that was a lot of money for a 16 year
> old boy in high school and working in a grocery store. I swore from that
> day on I would never charge for my services for fellow hams.
>
> 73
> Jim Younce K4ZM ex K4LXU
> Elecraft K2 Field Tester
> K2 SN: 18
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of John Farler
> Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2016 11:48 AM
> To: tentec@contesting.com; qrp-l@mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [TenTec] I'm old but I'm slow....
>
> Several months ago, on the Ten Tec list, I told about a ham who has almost
> lost his sight, and asked for parts to fix an old 540 for him to use, since
> it has only a few knobs, and should be easy to use. He had a Tech license
> for 19 years and got the general and extra within a year and said he wanted
> to upgrade while he could still study with just a big magnifying glass.
> He didn't have a lot of moneyfor a new rig, either, so I had an old 540
> but it didn't transmit, and needed new finals and drivers at least.
>
> To get to the point, two hams who are on both the TT and QRP-l lists came to
> the rescue.Mike Bryce <http://www.theheathkitshop.com/page12/index.html>,
> WB8VGE, offered to do the repairs for free, and K4ZM, Jim Younce, offered
> the needed parts gratis. Together they got the rig going and aligned, and
> David Pierce, KE4OZS, is now
> enjoying it.
>
> Please excuse my slowness in bringing this up to show the real spirit on the
> Ten Tec List as well as the QRP-L. These two really exemplify the Amateur
> Radio Spirit of being very helpful.
>
> One reason it has taken me so long is that I wanted to put the story on my
> webpage, and you can see more info atk4avx.net
> <http://home.windstream.net/johnfarler/KMARC/david.html>. You may want to
> backup from this and look at a story written by my mentor, W4JDU, about his
> experience in WW2, during the Battle of Midway.
>
> Thanks again to Mike and Jim for their work and generosity. It is greatly
> appreciated.
>
> 73,
> John Farler, K4AVX
> k4avx1@windstream.net
> http://k4avx.net
>
>
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