Geoff,
I'm 54 1/2 yrs young. I've run AM off and on since about 1982.
I started with an SX-101A and an HT-37 that the local club in
Columbus, GA put up for auction since they wanted to replace the station
in the City EOC with a TS-520S. I won with the ONLY bid of $75.
The vast majority of "new" hams wouldn't touch it since they had to
figure out how to sync a separate Tx/Rx.
Kept that station until about 1988, when I donated it to a High
School Science department. Sure wish I had kept it!
Bob - N0DGN
Geoff wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I believe Harry, ZL2MM was the first DX for many novices. My first was
JH1WIX, Taroh Yagi, who also frequented the US Novice frequencies.
Harry
was not far down the log as my second DX. This was in the summer of
1980,
I was about 15 years old, and freshly licensed as KA6JWD.
I wish I could regain some of that old excitement. It's been a LONG
time
since I've been on HF. I'm renewing my interest ham radio with older
vacuum tube gear such as a DX-100, Globe Scout, etc which are awaiting
restoration and repair. Several QRP projects are also in the works.
HOLY CRAP!
Somone on this list, is interested in AM, and is YOUNGER than me?
(46yrs)
;-)
My first Novice contact, as KA5THB, was with the most appropriate ham
I could
think of... W5OMR.
My Dad was issued that call back in nineteen forty-something, when he
exited (from
what HE called) the Moron Corps, and started working for the 'simple
servants' out
in Los Alamos, NM.
Originally issued W0BYB, in Ark City, KS, when you changed call areas,
you had to
(back then) change call signs, and take what they gave you.
73 = Best Regards,
-Geoff/W5OMR
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