Subj : Still using OS/2?
To : Sergey Poziturin
From : Mike Luther
Date : Sun Aug 02 2015 09:51 am
Hi Sergey and others.
SP> Hello, Mike Luther.
SP> On 30.07.15 8:02 you wrote:
ML> I was the key part to the creation of 'private' telephone numbers
ML> for FidoNet as I was the creator of the original underground
ML> telephone lines that might survive the Russian whop on the US back
ML> in the days of the Cold War.
SP> Mua-ha-ha, now we've got your name. :)
Slight error in my long post to you just now.
My Mentor Dr. George Huebner's ham radio call sign I typed was W5WQN was *NOT*
W5WQN at all! That's my assigned call sign, originlly as WN5WQN when I got my
Novice class license first. Dr. Huebner's call sign was W5GDK,
He was originally a EE graduate from A&M. At the time I got to meet him as a
boy walking to kids' school here in College Station at A&M Consolidated School
here, he was the guy who cleaned up the Episcopal Church on the old Jersey
Street, now George Bush Drive here. When I had built my crystal set to listen
to WTAW AM radio here, around eight or nine years old, as I walked to school a
mile each day in the back yard of his house next to the church I noticed a
copper wire antenna! I knocked on the door one day to see who it belonged to.
His wife answered the door and told me it was George but he was not there and
would be back. I asked if I could sit on the porch until he got there? She
said, "Yes." That's how I met him, The rest is history.
However that was some sixty years ago, I didn't even know until about ten
years ago that after he graduated from A&M, in WWII he was in Washington, DC!
He was the person who was heavily involved in the design of the complete short
wave reception system that monitored Hitler's short wave communications during
WWII there! My Dad and none of us knew about this at all way back then!
Dr, Huebner died several years ago. He was a treasure of a man in MANY ways
that had lots more to do with humanity as a whole and not just radio waves.
