On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 10:32:24 -0400, Harry Krause
wrote:

I also admired Barry Goldwater late in his life.

Whe I was much younger than I am now, in fact still a freshman in high
school, we visited Washington DC on a Field Trip. Amoung the group
were a few nerds who were into electronics and were all hams of
various licenses.

Naturally, we asked to see W3USS which was the Senate's amateur radio
station (several Senators were hams at the time). Somebody talked to
somebody and we were taken into the sanctum of W3USS.

As we were entering, out walks this white haired guy who introduces
himself as Barry, K7UGA and gave us a tour of the station - we had no
idea who he was at the time (this was in 1963), but he asked who had
the highest license, which was me and allowed me to be Control Op - I
ran 40 CW Q's and it was the time of my life. :)

It wasn't until late in '63/'64 that I finally figured out who "Barry"
was.

Take care.

Tom

"The beatings will stop when morale improves."
E. Teach, 1717