(formerly KA0RNY, 1983) Credit for my interest in things electronic goes to my dad who, although never a licensed radio amateur, did work on local TV sets and that fueled my interest in electronics and telecommunications.  He received his electronics training in the army during the Korean conflict although he…

(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…

i was employed by the department of defense as a detached service officer at misawa air base, japan, in the northeast corner of honshu. my primary job was to liaison between the military and civilian communicators. after i arrived at misawa i met several air force nco's who belonged to…