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  • William Wilson, AB0VG
    (formerly KA1KBX, 1983) My first novice dx contact was with a station in the Canary Islands. It was on a Saturday morning and I had decided to go ahead and change the direction on the yagi beam antenna we had to see where my signal would go. I lived in…

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  • John Shidler, NS5Z
    John thats a great story. I didn't realize you were so much older than me LOL.. glad to call you my Ham Pal. Where have the years gone.. we are old fat and gray now, but still tearing up the airwaves.... More...
    17.04.13 07:53
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Mid-1970s 1976 John Yasuda, WB6PTC

John Yasuda, WB6PTC

(Formerly WN6PTC, 1976)

[Editor's Note - Above, the Jet Propulsion Lab Amateur Radio Club, W6VIO, has captured John Yasuda, WN6PTC, now WB6PTC's first novice QSO. John was visiting JPLARC and operating its special events station N6V, on the ocassion of celebrating a successful Viking space probe.  John had only recieved his ticket the week prior after taking a ham licensing class at the Widney High School of the Handicap in Los Angeles,  JPL videoed John's visit and first QSO to help inspire young people into getting into ham radio].

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