Re: Topband: 78th Anniversary of First Ham License
Paul: Congratulations! Just imagine the changes in technology that have occurred over that period of time. 73 de Gene Smar AD3F -Original Message- From: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Billy Cox Sent: Monday, January 19, 2015 9:45 PM To: Paul Elliott Cc: topband@contesting.com Subject: Re: Topband: 78th Anniversary of First Ham License CONGRATS indeed Paul, well done there OM! 73 de Billy, AA4NU - Original Message - From: Paul Elliott p...@valornet.com Today I have the extremely good fortune to celebrate 78 years of being a licensed ham. On a day late in January 1937, in Kingsville TX, I came home from school and found a small envelope waiting for me. Inside was my license, dated January 19, 1937: operating privileges Class C, station call sign W5GGV. I was 14 years old at the time. _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
Re: Topband: 78th Anniversary of First Ham License
Well, congratulations Paul. That is one heck of an accomplishment, and one I certainly aspire to. Not the getting sunk part... ;-) 73, geo - n4ua On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 8:41 PM, Paul Elliott p...@valornet.com wrote: Today I have the extremely good fortune to celebrate 78 years of being a licensed ham. On a day late in January 1937, in Kingsville TX, I came home from school and found a small envelope waiting for me. Inside was my license, dated January 19, 1937: operating privileges Class C, station call sign W5GGV. I was 14 years old at the time. My first rig, operating only on 40 m CW, consisted of a type 45 tube in a TNT circuit and a 2 tube receiver (regenerative detector and one stage of audio). Both were built from parts scavenged from junked Atwater Kent receivers. My key was a piece of hacksaw blade. I did not start operating on 160 m until about 20 years ago. On a 120' x 120' lot (very noisy electrically), in Hobbs, NM, I have been able to confirm 187 countries on 160 m. I am still trying to come up with some way to improve my receiving antenna situation. Age, not surprisingly, has taken its toll but has not stopped me completely. Both sending and receiving speed have decreased to about 25 wpm-can still have fun with what I have left. My thanks to all those on this reflector who have provided help and instruction to me over the years. There are some very good people on this reflector. One small historical note: I still have my original license although somewhat the worse for wear. It got thoroughly soaked in the Pacific Ocean and stained when the ship I was on in WW II was sunk by a kamikaze. 73 Paul W5DM _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
Topband: 78th Anniversary of First Ham License
Today I have the extremely good fortune to celebrate 78 years of being a licensed ham. On a day late in January 1937, in Kingsville TX, I came home from school and found a small envelope waiting for me. Inside was my license, dated January 19, 1937: operating privileges Class C, station call sign W5GGV. I was 14 years old at the time. My first rig, operating only on 40 m CW, consisted of a type 45 tube in a TNT circuit and a 2 tube receiver (regenerative detector and one stage of audio). Both were built from parts scavenged from junked Atwater Kent receivers. My key was a piece of hacksaw blade. I did not start operating on 160 m until about 20 years ago. On a 120' x 120' lot (very noisy electrically), in Hobbs, NM, I have been able to confirm 187 countries on 160 m. I am still trying to come up with some way to improve my receiving antenna situation. Age, not surprisingly, has taken its toll but has not stopped me completely. Both sending and receiving speed have decreased to about 25 wpm-can still have fun with what I have left. My thanks to all those on this reflector who have provided help and instruction to me over the years. There are some very good people on this reflector. One small historical note: I still have my original license although somewhat the worse for wear. It got thoroughly soaked in the Pacific Ocean and stained when the ship I was on in WW II was sunk by a kamikaze. 73 Paul W5DM _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
Re: Topband: 78th Anniversary of First Ham License
CONGRATS indeed Paul, well done there OM! 73 de Billy, AA4NU - Original Message - From: Paul Elliott p...@valornet.com Today I have the extremely good fortune to celebrate 78 years of being a licensed ham. On a day late in January 1937, in Kingsville TX, I came home from school and found a small envelope waiting for me. Inside was my license, dated January 19, 1937: operating privileges Class C, station call sign W5GGV. I was 14 years old at the time. _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
Re: Topband: 78th Anniversary of First Ham License
Congratulations Paul. Job well done! Wish I had met you on my many trips through Hobbs while I was working in Midland in the 70's and 80's. Dave, W5UN On 1/20/2015 1:41 AM, Paul Elliott wrote: Today I have the extremely good fortune to celebrate 78 years of being a licensed ham. On a day late in January 1937, in Kingsville TX, I came home from school and found a small envelope waiting for me. Inside was my license, dated January 19, 1937: operating privileges Class C, station call sign W5GGV. I was 14 years old at the time. My first rig, operating only on 40 m CW, consisted of a type 45 tube in a TNT circuit and a 2 tube receiver (regenerative detector and one stage of audio). Both were built from parts scavenged from junked Atwater Kent receivers. My key was a piece of hacksaw blade. I did not start operating on 160 m until about 20 years ago. On a 120' x 120' lot (very noisy electrically), in Hobbs, NM, I have been able to confirm 187 countries on 160 m. I am still trying to come up with some way to improve my receiving antenna situation. Age, not surprisingly, has taken its toll but has not stopped me completely. Both sending and receiving speed have decreased to about 25 wpm-can still have fun with what I have left. My thanks to all those on this reflector who have provided help and instruction to me over the years. There are some very good people on this reflector. One small historical note: I still have my original license although somewhat the worse for wear. It got thoroughly soaked in the Pacific Ocean and stained when the ship I was on in WW II was sunk by a kamikaze. 73 Paul W5DM _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
Topband: Fw: 78th Anniversary of First Ham License
-Original Message- From: Bill Aycock Sent: Monday, January 19, 2015 9:15 PM To: Paul Elliott Subject: Re: Topband: 78th Anniversary of First Ham License Paul-- To repeat a cliché', Way to go! At that time, I was 10, and had just completed the Exploration (dismantling) of my first Radio-- also an Atwater-Kent. Battery powered, with a speaker that sat on top. It had been a Trade-in at the Hardware and Furniture my Dad ran. Also in Texas. Bill--W4BSG -Original Message- From: Paul Elliott Sent: Monday, January 19, 2015 7:41 PM To: topband@contesting.com Subject: Topband: 78th Anniversary of First Ham License Today I have the extremely good fortune to celebrate 78 years of being a licensed ham. On a day late in January 1937, in Kingsville TX, I came home from school and found a small envelope waiting for me. Inside was my license, dated January 19, 1937: operating privileges Class C, station call sign W5GGV. I was 14 years old at the time. My first rig, operating only on 40 m CW, consisted of a type 45 tube in a TNT circuit and a 2 tube receiver (regenerative detector and one stage of audio). Both were built from parts scavenged from junked Atwater Kent receivers. My key was a piece of hacksaw blade. I did not start operating on 160 m until about 20 years ago. On a 120' x 120' lot (very noisy electrically), in Hobbs, NM, I have been able to confirm 187 countries on 160 m. I am still trying to come up with some way to improve my receiving antenna situation. Age, not surprisingly, has taken its toll but has not stopped me completely. Both sending and receiving speed have decreased to about 25 wpm-can still have fun with what I have left. My thanks to all those on this reflector who have provided help and instruction to me over the years. There are some very good people on this reflector. One small historical note: I still have my original license although somewhat the worse for wear. It got thoroughly soaked in the Pacific Ocean and stained when the ship I was on in WW II was sunk by a kamikaze. 73 Paul W5DM _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
Re: Topband: Topband Digest, Vol 145, Issue 19
That's great news, Daryl. Thanks. Bill, K5WG -Original Message- From: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com] On Behalf Of topband-requ...@contesting.com Sent: Monday, January 19, 2015 5:00 PM To: topband@contesting.com Subject: Topband Digest, Vol 145, Issue 19 Send Topband mailing list submissions to topband@contesting.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/topband or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to topband-requ...@contesting.com You can reach the person managing the list at topband-ow...@contesting.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Topband digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: beverage on ice (Pete Millis) 2. Re: 160 VERT (Tom W8JI) 3. Re: Beverage on Ice (Tom W8JI) 4. Re: Beverage on Ice (Guy Olinger K2AV) 5. Re: Beverage on Ice (Mike Waters) 6. Beverage on Ice (Roger Parsons via Topband) -- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 17:34:50 + From: Pete Millis pete.mil...@gmail.com To: topband@contesting.com Subject: Re: Topband: beverage on ice Message-ID: CAEf09xns-KStjdRZ74cid3RA6JPRr5u1nmVofFgKqPf-=kk...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Even a very thin wire shouldn't be left. Could easily slice a swimmer or get tangled around wildlife. Pete M3KXZ On 18 Jan 2015 17:01, topband-requ...@contesting.com wrote: Send Topband mailing list submissions to topband@contesting.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/topband or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to topband-requ...@contesting.com You can reach the person managing the list at topband-ow...@contesting.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Topband digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: Beverage on Ice (Ron Feutz) 2. Compact magnetic loop (Ignacy Misztal) 3. Re: Compact magnetic loop (Bill Cromwell) 4. Re: Compact magnetic loop (Arthur Delibert) 5. Re: Compact magnetic loop (Tom W8JI) 6. 160 VERT (Don) 7. Beverage on Ice (Roger Parsons via Topband) -- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 12:52:44 -0600 From: Ron Feutz fe...@wctc.net To: Topband topband@contesting.com Subject: Re: Topband: Beverage on Ice Message-ID: 012865CEF7284F718B9CAA230E728828@OwnerPC Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1; reply-type=original I did this about 10 years ago. I live on the Wisconsin River and it's about a half-mile wide in front of the house. I laid out 1000' of #14 stranded, insulated wire. I terminated it with a 200 ohm resistor to a 1/4 wave wire and several short radials running nearly parallel to the antenna/grounding wires. At the feed end, I used a 4/1 homebrew transformer using one of Tom's binocular cores. The transformer was grounded to a conventional 8' ground rod. The antenna never worked at all, as far as I could tell. There was no discernable, certainly not usable, directivity. Why, I don't have a clue. The techniques chosen were the result of all the best advice I could get at the time on the topband reflector. FWIW, the river averages about 10-15 feet deep under the antenna and is sand/gravel/bedrock. I would love to try this again if someone can help with an improved design. 73, Ron KK9K -Original Message- From: Roger Parsons via Topband Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 3:51 PM To: Topband Subject: Topband: Beverage on Ice I know that Beverages on Ground have been discussed on a number of occasions, but: I live on the shores of a reasonably large lake, and at this time of year it will be frozen to at least 2' and possibly 4' or 5' deep. I believe that ice is a pretty good insulator, so I wonder about the effectiveness of a wire just laid on the surface? It would be impossible to retrieve the wire in the spring so it would have to be fine enameled copper. Even that may not be very environmentally friendly? If the wire survived the first couple of days it would be frozen into the ice - it would be at risk from snow machines until that happened. This is just speculation from enforced idleness - I cleverly managed to break my leg during a foolish last check of my receive antennas before Christmas - so I can't even get into the shack, let alone onto the lake. I was not very hopeful in any event that EP6T would be workable from here, but I am determined somehow to get there for K1N... 73 Roger VE3ZI _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband -- Message: 2 Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015
