[Dixielandjazz] Arthur Godfrey

[Don Kirkman]

On Thu, 20 May 2004 14:10:36 -0500, Patrick Cooke wrote:

>FYI:

>All of those dahdits at the end of Will Connelly's post were his old Ham
>radio Operator's call sign W6QID.

>Pat Cooke.....WA4BVR
>New Orleans
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Will Connelly" <willc at highstream.net>
>To: "Don Ingle" <dingle at baldwin-net.com>
>Cc: <LeslieMRag at aol.com>; <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
>Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 8:58 AM
>Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Arthur Godfrey

>> Thanks to Don for the memory.

>> Also on Godfrey was monumental clarinetist Johnny Mince.  In 1948 - 50 I
>> was assigned to the radio shop of the 3499th Mobile Training Group at
>> Chanute Field, Illinois, and my days began by boarding whichever of the
>> group's six C-47s or three B-25s that were at home and checking their
>> radios.

>> Now each of these planes had an AN/ARN-7 radio compass and when I
>> finished my work all the directional loops were aimed at Chicago and the
>> receivers were all tuned to WBBM. Oddly enough, the radio checks were
>> completed at just about the time the Godfrey show ended.
>> Kindly,
>> Will "didahdah dahdidididit dahdahdiddah didit dahdidit" Connelly

Thanks for pointing that out, Pat.  I diddled my way through it but it
didn't dawn on me how close Will's call sign is to that of the guy who
administered my first novice test in 19ought49 - W6QIF.  I've been
WV6ENG, WA6ENT, and N6IM since then; still have the ticket but haven't
been on the air since computers came along.  "Seems like old times .  .
.  ."   :-)
-- 
Don
donkirk at covad.net