Good point, Pete, and please join the increasingly long line of us Old
Timers whose memories aren't exactly what they once were.
Minor details, but it wasn't Pepe XE2MX QTH in Ensenada, it was some barren
land that Tree and I found near Tijuana.
And the call wasn't XE2MX, it was XE2SI (my cheeks still blushing from the
'creative phonetics' that Tree adopted for the "S I" suffix. Use your
imagination here.)
And it wasn't CQ WW CW, rather it was SSB. The year, 1983.
And you had some of the ops right. Others N6ND, N6TJ, N6TR, N6NB (is that
Wayne's call?), and maybe N6VI?
At the time, highest score ever from the 'west coast' in the CQ WW.
Other M/M operations from there followed, including CW.
Of course, Pepe XE2MX has generously hosted many other operations from his
modest abode in Ensenada. I'll NEVER forget the time, 1985, or so, that
Dick Norton "suggested" (I had just started employment under Dick's
company), that I should drive OH2BH all the way to Pepe's so that Martti
could operate the CW SPRINT. Gads. I only got lost 3 times that night, but
the look on Martti's face was priceless when we found ourselves lost in the
worst slum that Tijuana had to offer. Martti had told me during the drive
down that Mexico was the Finnish notion of paradise (too many Elvis movies,
singing on the beach in Acapulco, methinks). I thought Martti was going to
faint!
Anyway, we FINALLY found Pepe's in Ensenada, about a half hour before the
SPRINT started. Pepe answered the door, I introduced myself, and Martti,
and Pepe being ever the gentlemen, invited us in for dinner, etc.
I said, "Pepe, oh by the way, Martti would like to operate the contest, and
it begins in 30 minutes". What a great laugh we had.
Sorry to get so far off the track, but just a couple of my several thousand
contesting experiences, I guess.
Thanks, Pete, for jogging my memory.
73
Jim Neiger N6TJ
(off to ZD8Z this weekend, and QRV WPX SSB in a week. Y'all drop
in............)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Grillo" <ah3c@frii.com>
To: <TOMK5RC@aol.com>; <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 6:19 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Remembering the BEST TIMES at
Multi-MultiOperations.....
> What about Jose's XE2MX QTH when Phil - N6ZZ, Dick - N6AA, Glenn - K6NA,
> and
> many others had just christened SCCC's 1st multi-multi CQWW CW? Jose was
> beaming as we were setting up antennas and gear. I saw him nipping off
> the
> tip of a piece of pepper. I asked him what it was. In his broken English
> he said, "Jalopena, very hot. Good for the heart. You want?" Sure, I'll
> be glad to try it.....my heart is still pounding!!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of TOMK5RC@aol.com
> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 6:52 PM
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Remembering the BEST TIMES at Multi-Multi
> Operations.....
>
> Wow, this really stirs up some emotion. The M/M's of the 70's and 80's at
> K5RC/K5GA should have been video taped for Saturday Night Live. Between
> K5LZO
> blowing cigar smoke in your face when the rate dropped, him slapping you
> in
> the
> ear with his slipper at 3AM, my "ex" painting K5ZD's toe nails while he
> was
>
> napping and K5KG drinking an entire pot of decaf coffee trying to stay
> awake,
> we would just be getting warmed up with stories. If you have never
> survived
>
> for 48 hours on chocolate chip cookies, you haven't lived. If you never
> had
> N5AM around (Charlie is legally blind) to press into service climbing
> towers
> in the middle of the night, you've not lived a complete life as a station
> owner.
>
> Our M/M trips to XE2FU were just as entertaining with the regular
> appearance
> of "El Pollo Loco," a rubber chicken that had many uses and taking your
> life
> into your hands by using the out-house when K2TNO was in a playful mood.
>
> As they say, they ain't your father's contests any more.
>
> Tom Taormina, K5RC
> Contesting from the Comstock
> W7RN - K7RC
>
>
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