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Dale Bredon, W6BGK
(formerly WN6BGK/W6BGK, 1951) I was one of the early Novice / Technician licensees (I still have the original licenses). I also was issued a First Class Radiotelephone Operators License in Dec 1950 and still hold a Lifetime FCC General Radiotelephone Operators License. On 11 Oct 1951 I was issued WN6BGK…Read more...
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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...
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Mid-1960s 
1966
1966
1966
(formerly WN2ABS, 1966; WB2JTV) It was mostly all those WWII spy movies with CW operators in them, that got me interested in radio. I had just graduated high school in 1966, and in my first year in the local Community College a teacher administered the test. I was issued WN2ABS.…
(formerly WN1HBX, 1966) It’s hard to tell with kids what is worth pushing or not. They try things on like fads, and usually don’t stick with anything. At least that’s how it was in the mid 60’s. For some reason my parents thought that’s how you treated pre-teen kids—let them…
(formerly WN0PKM, 1966) I got my start in radio, back on the farm, by reading books and doing experiments. I had the first CB license, in my home town of Springdale Arkansas, in 1961. My issued call was 8Q1311. After joining the Air Force in 1963 I was drafted into…
(formerly WN9STI, 1966) Growing up in the Chicago area, my first encounter with ham radio was in the sixth grade when at a “Show and Tell” session one of my classmates, Lee Crocker (later W9OY), started his talk by saying that he wanted to be a ham. I remember all…
(formerly WN6UFW, 1966) I received my novice license in Stockton California in 1964-1965. My call sign was WN6UFW. I was in my early teens at the time and went to weekly theory and code classes for a number of weeks. That took place at the Stockton Rod and Gun Club…
(formerly WN7FIK, 1966) It was 1964. I was in 8th grade. I had built a little tube type AM transmitter from a schematic and became "radio station KBW, the 100mW powerhouse, broadcasting from the rec room to the living room" and playing my parents 33 1/3 records on the air.…
(formerly WN4GGH, 1966) I got my novice ticket during the summer of 1966. I had a school chum whose father was a ham (WA4ICB - Who Alls 4 (for) Ice Cold Beer), and had the complete Collins setup, all tho I didn't understand the value of then. I found out…
(formerly WN4ETG,1966; WB4ETG) I had received a pair of CB “walkie talkies” the Christmas of 1965. Through these I had become friends with a fellow classmate who also had a pair and we, with the help of a few extra feet of wire, were able to talk to one another.…
(formerly WN4JKS, 1966; WB4JKS, KF4RIO, KU4LB) To be perfectly honest, I really believe that it was and ad for Heathkit in an old comic book or magazine that got me interested in ham radio. I was a bored 13 year old kid, and there were other things that had caught…
(formerly WN2VDR, 1966) I had a typical mid-1960s Novice station, a Heathkit DX60 transmitter and matching HR10 receiver. As most of the local high school-age Novices in my small town communicated with each other on a single two-meter AM frequency, I also had a Heathkit HW30 "Twoer" transceiver.
(formerly WN7GJE, 1966) My novice license arrived in the mail on October 17th of 1966, about five weeks after I took the test. I was out in the field disking up corn ground on the back of an old International "M" tractor. I was 14 years old. I can remember…
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