(Formerly WN0BHE, 1970) Spurred on by my brother Evan, KØHYG (sk), I was first licensed as a novice effective April 14th, 1970 as WNØBHE. It wasn't until the 25th of April that I actually received the license in the mail. The wait seemed a lot longer than it really was.…

(Formerly WN0CGH, 1970) My personal interest in amateur radio goes back to about 1960 when I was in 7th grade, but being basically lazy, I just never stuck with the code long enough to learn it. Finally in 1970, I was telling my college room mate about ham radio and…

(Formerly WN6CFF, 1970) I had been introduced to Amateur Radio a few times while I was in elementary school. My father was not a ham at the time, though he always wanted to be one. He also told me about ham radio and encouraged me and my brother to get…

(Formerly WN0BJC, 1970) I got my Novice license in 1970 when I was 15 years old.  We lived in Sioux Falls, SD and my call was WN0BJC.  My grandfather, Emory Cox, W0MA, was one of my Elmers but he lived in Leavenworth, KS so his role was more of a…

(Formerly WN7OLU, 1970; KG6VI) Pre-Novice Days Prior to getting my Novice license, I became interested in short wave listening (SWLing) through reading several articles in Boy’s Life and Popular Electronics magazines.  I was an 8th grader in 1969, living in Las Vegas, NV, so I mowed lawns and pulled weeds…

(Formerly WN8HKS, 1970) I had a wonderful time as a Novice licensee.  I was 10.  My father, Philip Kazdan, had gotten interested in amateur radio through one of his patients, and he and I studied for our exam together.  The Novice exam was given by a licensed ham only then. …