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Lew, W2BIE and Elaine his XYL

Lew, W2BIE, was my very first contact when I got my technician license. I had purchased a 2-meter rig, Icom V8000, and my auto mechanic helped me to install it. I was fumbling with such things as PL tones and power output and didn’t understand why I didn’t make a contact. And then…a miracle occurred. I had just come out of an evening business meeting, got in the car and fired up the rig. I keyed the mike a few times and, suddenly, someone responded. It was Lew. He welcomed me to the repeater and to the hobby. He spoke about the wonderful contacts he had made on HF and the many friends he had because of amateur radio. And he invited me to LIMARC, the Long Island Mobile Amateur Radio Club.

Lew was the type of ham that was always glad to see new faces in the hobby and hear new voices on the radio. He himself had been active for at least 50 years and he shared his enthusiasm for the hobby with anyone and everyone. He would tell stories about the television interference he had inflicted on his neighbors during the 1960s. He would tell about mobile rigs in the 1950s (a boatanchor in a boat of a car…one might say). He would tell about friendships that came about because of ham radio and he would always talk about the local club, the Long Island Mobile Amateur Radio Club (LIMARC). There are probably quite a few hams who are part of the local club because of Lew.

While Lew’s key may be silent, his enthusiasm for the hobby is not silent at all. It lives on among his family members (his son Steven took over his call sign) and among all those who came to know him.

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I’ve never seen a picture of Norm where he didn’t have this big smile. I’ve never heard him raise his voice. I’ve never heard him say a bad thing about anyone. 73 OM. Thank you for helping me to learn CW. Thank you for being a part of my ham radio life. I will miss talking to you on the repeater. I will miss telling you the stories of the new contacts I made on CW.

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E-Ham is a great source of information. They have a section called Articles which has many construction ideas and other information of use to the ham radio community. The following Google trick will help you to do a search throughout their entire archive of posted articles. It will search, not just the article title but also the full text of the article. This can be useful when you want to find something that was posted some time ago but only have vague memories of the content.

How To Search E-Ham Articles

Let’s assume you want to find all articles dealing with 2 meter beams.

1. Go to google.com.

2. Type the following into the search box:
2 meter beam site:http://www.eham.net/articles/

How To Search ANY Site

This same technique can be used to search any other website. Here’s the syntax.

[search term] site:[URL here]

Example: q codes site:http://arrl.org

If you add double quotes around your search term Google will look for an exact match of that term.

Example: “q codes” site:http://arrl.org

Click here for an easy to use interface to access other advanced Google search tricks.

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(L-R) Jeff (KC2OBG), Jim (K2KFV), and Bob (W2OSR)

(L-R) Bob (W2OSR), Joe (N2OUV) , Jeff (KC2OBG), Jim (K2KFV), and Rick (K2RB)

(L-R) Joe (N2OUV), Jeff (KC2OBG), Bob (W2OSR), Rick (K2RB), Jim (K2KFV)

The photographer was Ray (W2RFR).

Antenna: Cushcraft A3S
Tower: MA-40 Crankup

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