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to: Sergey Poziturin
from: Mike Luther
date: 2015-08-02 09:51:48
subject: Still using OS/2?

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.


Mike Luther as N117C at 1:117/100

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