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Dan Gaylord, W7IDG
(formerly WN7CVW, 1965) I worked & worked & worked and thanks to the patience of my Elmer, the late Lew Hanson, WA7AGB, I finally sat for The Test, and in June of '64 or '65 became WN7CVW. Now to work DX! For the first month or so I couldn't reach…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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(formerly WN6LGW, 1968) I enormously enjoyed my time as a Novice. I probably upgraded too fast. That was 1968.My best days on ham radio were the first 6 months – as a Novice. It was really a thrill back then. Naturally, that comes with the perspective of age. Often times…
(formerly WN9BFH, 1968) Got my novice when I was 12 as my dad got interested in radio, but he could never grasp the code.... I was a musician at the time, so the code came fairly easy to me. He bought us a Heathkit transmitter, which we assembled together, and…
(formerly WN5WDB, 1968; WA5WDB, KF5ZC) I had been trying to make friends with someone who could give me my Novice test for a while. My dad had just retired from the US Air Force and we were moving around a bit as he tried to find a permanent job. We…
(1968) I've had a lot of fun over the years and still find the hobby fascinating but those novice years...wow. Maybe it was the times but I had an absolute blast. I was 12 years old in '68 when I got my ticket. 75 watts (input) and crystal controlled. Somehow…
(formerly WN6GSN, 1968) I received my Novice license WN6GSN in 1968, when I was 13. I started as a shortwave broadcast SWL in 1965 and had confirmed over 100 countries, but I was shocked when my next-door neighbor, from whom I caught the SWL bug, surprised me when he said…
(Formerly WN9AOF, 1968) I was first licensed in November 1968 as WN9AOF. Although I took my exam, along with my buddy Sam Trobaugh, WN9AOG, from W9KYO, Don Williams, I suppose my Elmer would have to be my Dad, Tom Byrnes, later WN9HSM. He had been licensed in the early 60s,…
(Formerly WN5WJZ, 1968; WA5WJZ, 1970) It was pretty much inevitable that I became a ham. And herein are two Novice tales. When I was about 5 years old, my older brother got his ticket and the callsign KN5UFA. Bill would have been about 14 then (~1959), and because he and…
(Formerly WN1LOU, 1968) I remember the day the mailman delivered my first Amateur Radio license. I held the envelope in my hand wondering what my call sign would be. I was very pleased when I found that the suffix of my call sign actually spelled something (LOU).
(Formerly WN5UBQ, 1968; WA5UBQ) It was 1968 and I was 48 years old at that time when I received my novice ticket - WN5UBQ. I got into ham radio by accident. My son, five years old at the time asked me how a tube worked. I had no earthly notion,…
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