I was in 1st grade and 3 years later, I got my ham license. Man that was fun. I totally escaped the limits of the backwoods of Alabama with ham radio. Nowadays, it would not be an issue. My mother lives in a town of 900 people in Alabama with 2mbps coming to her house.
Radio Shack? All I had was the local TV repair shops to homebrew until the foreman at my dad's factory gave me a DX60 kit he was never going to build (his family bought it for him and he went legally blind). The flood of many memories and the true impact of amateur radio on my life comes rushing back in ...... A little more than a decade after I became a ham, and met Richard Allen for the first time, I realized that ham radio was full of brilliant people. He was introduced to me by Tom Clark who had taken me under his wing. I have spent a career mostly doing what Clark has told me to do. I think the social networking sites are great, but the human contact and the impact of personally getting involved and passing on your life's experiences to others can NEVER be replaced by pushing a button on facebook or an amateur radio. It is the PEOPLE who became amateurs that were important to me. Bob ARRL SDR Working Group Chair Member: ARRL, AMSAT, AMSAT-DL, TAPR, Packrats, NJQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC. "And yes I said, yes I will Yes", Molly Bloom -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Tracy Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 4:30 PM To: Philip Covington; Neal Campbell Cc: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; richard allen Subject: Re: [Flexradio] old stuff! Ah yes! I was selling ham gear for a living in 1961 (1958 - 1965) and most of that looks very familiar. Thanks, Bob K5KDN -----Original Message----- From: Philip Covington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 3:19 PM To: Neal Campbell Cc: Bob Tracy; FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; richard allen Subject: Re: [Flexradio] old stuff! Check out 1961... lot's of good ham gear in there... <http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/catalogs/1961/> -- Phil Covington Software Radio Laboratory LLC Columbus, Ohio http://www.srl-llc.com _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
