To clarify, my Dad was not a ham. But he did teach me and the rest of the scouts the code. He was my first scoutmaster. When I joined the Navy at age 19, he got interested and got his novice ticket as a surprise. I was at K6NCG, going to ET'A' school on Treasure Island. He called me on the phone, which was a big deal long distance from Indiana to California in 1962. We met on the 40M Novice band and I was his first QSO. He refused to work anyone else until he worked me. When he died in 1999, I found the QSL I had sent him from K6NCG, hanging on his bedroom wall. He never got his general.
As I said before, memories are priceless. 73, Dave, K4TO On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 8:29 AM Dave Sublette <k4to.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > My relationship with drafting class goes back to before I was born. My > Dad, born in 1918, took drafting class in 1936. After he died, I found a > pen and ink drawing of his from that class. It was a schematic of two > different crystal sets. As a teen, Dad was the neighborhood radio > technician. He strung wire antennas and repaired headphones for folks. > > I had that schematic framed and built one of the sets. I entered it in > the antiques section of the county fair(with a note that the radio was not > the antique). I won a Blue Ribbon and was considered for the grand > champion ribbon. I have the drawing and the set on my mantle. > > At almost 80 years of age, my memories are increasing in value. > > 73, > > Dave, K4TO > > On Sat, Apr 24, 2021, 4:00 AM Joe K2UF <j...@k2uf.com> wrote: > >> In 1955 we were the cool guys with a slide rule in a leather case hanging >> from your belt and india ink stains on your hands. >> >> 73 Joe K2UF >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net >> [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Wayne Burdick >> Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2021 1:09 AM >> To: Elecraft Reflector >> Subject: [Elecraft] OT: High school drafting class, ~1975 >> >> OK, I've really dated myself now. >> >> Anyone remember "drafting"? A favorite class in high school: blueprints, >> mechanical drawings, schematics, straight edges, hand lettering, >> projections >> and elevations. We invented things to draw that weren't real, but looked >> like they should be. Did all the math by hand -- on a slide rule, if >> necessary. Day-dreamed about what we might one day build. >> >> 45 years later, we're using tools we couldn't have imagined. Modeling >> circuits and objects with millions of parameters and vectors, realizing >> them >> in virtual space, manipulating them in real time. Testing finished >> products >> before they're even assembled. >> >> The transformation is mind boggling. Yet the best part now, as it was >> then, >> is the occasional burst of creative energy that propels an idea forward. >> The >> feeling of pieces falling into place. Or forcing them into place out of >> sheer necessity. >> >> Most of the time, we think of our new tools and techniques as advances in >> the state of the art. Things we can't live without. But those same >> defining >> moments happened just as often in simpler times. >> >> Case in point -- my first real project, a rendition of W7ZOI's >> Micro-mountaineer. Carefully documenting it took several sheets of >> 4-squares-per-inch grid paper, which may still be in my cellar, beneath a >> lifetime of such drawings. With the schematic, I took a lot of pride in >> making the circuits look well-organized, as if that would somehow improve >> my >> odds. On the PC board, I drew large traces and pads with the etch-resist >> pen, as if that would somehow appease the electrons. >> >> I etched the PCB, soldered two dozen parts, and connected a 12 V lantern >> battery. Thanks to my paranoia about what would happen if I did it wrong, >> I'd taken my time and done it right. >> >> I was rewarded with a hiss of band noise and a few CW signals on 40 >> meters. >> >> Here's to those moments, and to that timeless pursuit: turning >> abstractions >> into reality. >> >> 73, >> Wayne >> N6KR >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message >> delivered to j...@k2uf.com >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to k...@arrl.net >> > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
