[GreenKeys] general insigificant information

[George B. Hutchison]

Hello, Mr. Mushel - - -

Thanks so much for that little bit about Buck, W6VPC.

I was in high school when I bought my first 26 from him, with my 
first ever pay check.

He and Maribel were the nicest people one could ever encounter, and 
I made many trips from Walnut Creek to his house on Mandana Blvd.

The whole RTTY community was saddened when Maribel passed away.

She was right beside Buck helping whenever they had a pile of 26s to 
make ready for the hams.

It was a situation I met with mixed emotions when he re-married, as 
his second wife (and her son) were not what I would have called 
delightful people.

No one could ever take the place of Maribel.

I attended several of the NCARTS dinners, and a couple of years ago 
I was blessed with a genuine NCARTS Model 15 Lapel pin which I today 
wear with a smile.

Somewhere in my pile of stuff I have a pair of plug- in filters 
(2125 and 2975) that Dick Segerstom, W6CQK, used to make and sell to 
the hams.

I got my first few model 15's from Wally Buckley's (W6GGC) 
Junqueyard on Evans Avenue in San Fran. They had been whacked in 
"special" places, and if you were judicious in selecting them you 
could make two perfectly good ones out of 3 Junquers.

After I got out of the service I lived in Menlo Park, and got to rub 
elbows and exchange a few ideas with Bob Weitbrecht, W6NRM, father 
of the "Phonetyper" concept for the hard-of-hearing.

The last great NCARTS associated venture I participated in was when 
Western Electric released 160 model 28 KSRs to the hams. They were 
available in two "flavors",  repaired for 85 bucks, and unrepaired 
for 65. The only difference was that the "unrepaired" machines were 
more than 90 days since going through the Western Electric overhaul 
shop as compared with the "repaired" units. All were in pristine 
condition.

Irv, W6FFC, was the banker and honcho of the project, and I was the 
one who went to Western Electric that fateful day when all 160 
machines were received and signed for. There were forty pallets with 
four machines each.

55 of the machines went to my garage in Santa Clara for distribution 
(pick up) by Bay Area hams, and the balance were loaded in moving 
vans for distribution all over the U.S.

Two or three retired Autodin 28ASRs that I had scarfed out of 
Western Union in San Fran were also sent to selected homes around 
the country.

Those were the days.

W7TTY