(1951)

My father was an Amateur.   He was 9DRQ back before I was born.   After WW2 he sold the Missouri farm and got relicensed as W0DBO (1950?).   We moved to Arizona shortly after that (early 1951).   He had a 75A1 receiver and a Harvey Wells transmitter.   To begin with the antenna was a ten meter ground plane.   The decade of the fifties had very good propagation, so ten was open most of the time.  There also was a lot of local activity on ten.   Local nets etc, much like two became with the advent of repeaters.  Anyway when I got my Novice license I used his station.   I just got an 11 meter crystal for the Harvey Wells.   My first contact was North Carolina from Arizona!