[RMVHF] Fwd: [VHF] The Fred Fish Memorial Award

[w0ld]

Good Morning Nate...

I knew W5FF very well.  He and his wife K5FF were the first ones to work
DXCC on 6 meters, and he was the first one to work all the US grids.  He
lived outside Albuquerque and for 20+ years he was glued to the 6 meter
radio.  He was a retired FAA employee and had a lot of time to wait for
openings, and that is about all he did.  I remember being in Albuquerque and
inviting Fred to lunch.  He responded that he thought there might be an
opening and declined.

He was also a very active 220 MHz. operator, 2 meter operator and 432
operator.  He was active on EME and held WAS on a number of bands.  In short
he was passionately involved in VHF/UHF.

So...you are right.  It would take a whale of a commitment to do what Fred
did.

Lauren, W0LD 

> From: Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com>
> Reply-To: rmvhf at rmvhf.org
> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:30:24 -0700
> To: rmvhf at rmvhf.org
> Subject: Re: [RMVHF] Fwd: [VHF] The Fred Fish Memorial Award
> 
> 
> On Jan 28, 2008, at 8:39 PM, Wayne Heinen wrote:
> 
>> 2) The Fred Fish Memorial Award rules strictly adhere to the VUCC
>> rules. Of
>> particular importance is VUCC Rule 6, which states:  "...all
>> contacts must be
>> made from locations no more than 200 km apart."
> 
> 
> Holy crap!  LOL...
> 
> I don't think I'll ever have enough gas and time to ever finish that
> one!!!
> 
> Talk about an achievement, though -- whew!  All grid squares, but you
> have to move to within 200 km of every one before you make the contact?
> 
> Wowzers... I think I'd need about a lifetime to even START on that!
> But I'm sure with some planning and prep one could figure out the
> mimimum number of vehicle moves necessary to get it done and then
> start drumming up contacts in those grids YEARS in advance.
> 
> (Time for some stunned silence... did Fred actually DO this?  Wow.
> Was he a traveling salesman, or truck driver or own a helicopter or
> something?  Haha...)
> 
> Well anyway, no disrespect meant... never knew him, but RIP Fred...
> sounds like you were a 6m "operator extraordinaire"...
> 
> --
> Nate Duehr, WY0X
> nate at natetech.com
> 
> 
> 
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