It's A Small World After All

The bands have been terrible lately.  Mr. Sun is simply not pulling his weight, and I'm starting to get all my equipment ready for sale on QRZ.  I have made a few contacts today on 20 and 30 meters, but it's not easy to cut through the serious QSB.  But you know, just when you start to lose heart, something always pops up to bring you back from the edge.  I was on 10 meters the other day during the 10-10 contest and I heard a call from K5FBS and when the name Clifford A. Taylor popped up in the log, I just had to know if it was the Cliff Taylor I knew from my Army days in Germany.  Sure enough it was him and we had a marvelous chat about our time on the border back in the old cold war days.  I remembered at the time he was studying for his license and building a Heathkit SB-101 to operate from Germany.  He finally passed his exam and got a German call sign.  It tests my memory a bit, but I think it was DL4BO.  Cliff, let me know if that's wrong.