From Paul Dusmenil ex-CZDO

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

---------- QSP from Paul Dumesnil ex CZDO  ---------
From: Paul D. <al...@glinx.com>
Date: Sun, Jan 11, 2026, 14:05

Re. WSF.... I visited the station at the top of a building in downtown Manhattan one Sunday morning in July 1967 with an old retired Radio Officer, Al Rowe, who had taken me under his wing when I arrived at the Seaman's Church Institute looking for my first ship after having graduated from the Merchant Marine School in Rimouski that April. There was only one person at that station that morning, i.e. the radio-operator himself. (Reminds me of Hodeida Radio/4WD in North Yemen which I visited also when my ship m/s Taipoosek/VRFR docked there in the Fall of 1971 where there was only one opr (Yemenite) and one tech. (Russian). All the equipment (MF and HF w/t only, no

R-T whatsoever) was Russian-made. What a good little station that was. Unfortunately, the opr could only speak Arabic so my visit was rather limited in exchange of info. 

I did send you a Christmas card. If you didn't received it, then you might have changed your postal adz without my knowledge of it. 

My son, Skylar, came down to Truro, N.S. with his two kids (Emmitt 11 and Isabella 15) for my 79th birthday on * Dec. 27th celebrated at my Chicago friends who now live just outside Truro (they left the U.S. a few years ago because they couldn't stand Trump). My daughter, Evangeline, also came down with her Canadian boyfriend (and Zelda...her boyfriend's dog) while she was in Nova Scotia for a month. She's been living in London, England for the past 12 years having her own business (therapeutic masssage therapy) with only a few selected patients, most of them rich retired couples who mostly live in the Notting Hill section of London. She goes to their homes to administer massages to them. In fact, one couple let her live in an apt. they own in Notting Hill (one of the richest parts of London) for a very low rent. The rent would normally go for about US$3,000/ month but she gets it for only a fraction of that. They told her that she could make up the difference in services. (She charges about US$300/hr as London is one of the most expensive places to live in the world!) As for her, she doesn't have any kids and there is very little chance that she ever will, now that she's 40! Sad, as I would have loved to have grand-kids from her since I have very very little contact with Emmitt and 'Bella even though my son when he became 1st Lieutenant (Canadian Army) was transferred to Halifax from New Brunswick. It's the daughter-in-law, you see, as she hates me and I never found out the reason why! Go figure....

Gotta go as I have a pile of paper work to take care of.

You have pain?  You're not alone: I have had to endure pain in my left leg and buttock for 2 years steady. It's pretty bad and take a lot of pain killers. Welcome to the club. 

73

Paul

*My wife, Rasami, couldn't come as she had the flu and didn't want to pass it along to anyone.