[Dx-qsl] 9n1mm

Tue Apr 5 09:56:18 EDT 2011

Does anyone know what happened to Fr Morans logs, or if they are lost 
forever? It would be sad to think all those logs are forever lost to 
history. I cannot imagine the numbers of logs he passed on to Ed N7EB, his 
manager of the day. Both are now SK.
 I had a 15 meter contact that the logs here show was confirmed, but am 
unable to locate the card. I sent another off to Ed, shortly before he 
became a SK so never got a replacement. Over the years, I had hundreds of 
contacts with Fr Moran, often for conversations that lasted a half our or 
more at a time. He was a regular check in with the W7PHO group (With me 
sitting in Hong Kong) , and he and I would arrive on freq an hour or more 
before Bill showed to run the chat net. One memorable QSO was when I lived 
in Athens, and had just built and erected a 15 meter ZLspecial antenna. I 
heard Moran fielding a pileup, swung the antenna his direction, called once, 
and he came immediately back to me. He wanted to chat, so we did, for the 
next 10 minutes or so, with a huffing puffing mass of Europeans standing 
by. Back then, there was some courtesy toward the wishes the of DX.
 Moran was truly one of the giants of ham radio. And I miss even our 
limited US to Nepal contacts but feel blessed with those we had. RIP Moran.
,
Danny Douglas
N7DC
ex WN5QMX ET2US WA5UKR ET3USA SV0WPP VS6DD N7DC/YV5 G5CTB
All 2 years or more (except Novice). Short stints at: DA/PA/SU/HZ/7X/DU
CR9/7Y/KH7/5A/GW/GM/F
Pls QSL direct, buro, or LOTW preferred,
I Do not use, but as a courtesy do upload to eQSL for those who do.
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