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Tom Herrold, N9BUL
(formerly WD9BUL, 1977) My name Is TOM. My QTH is Beloit, WI. U R 599 Tnx de WD9BCL Hello, My name is Tom. This is what I wrote down on a piece of paper the get me started. I was granted my NEW Novice License on 2/11/1977.. WD9BCL. WOW !!!…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...
17.04.13 07:53
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(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.…
(formerly WN6NIB, 1951) Development of Interest and Skills to Pursue Novice Class License Two great “Elmers” encouraged me to pursue various radio hobbies in my early years. One, Ron Caldwell, W6JFE (now W7ALC) gave me a crystal set when I was about 11 years of age. A year later he…
(formerly WN6NSV, 1951) Richard Somers, W6NSV also earned his General before Hami. He started ham radio as a first day Novice. He was in a long line of 50-60 aspiring hams at the Los Angeles FCC Field Office on July 2, 1951; the first day the novice exam was offered.…
(formerly WN4TKL, 1951) When the novice class first opened I jumped at it, and got my ticket, WN4TKL. I lived in Panama City, FL at the time, and I used a one tube home-built transmitter and a HP reciever!! As I began to make QSO's it really became fun. One…
(Formerly WN2KHJ, W2KHJ, W3KHJ, AD2I AN EARLY NOVICE My initial motivation to get interested in radio came from my dad when I was an early teen. He told me some about his early experimentation with radio, but I learned about his most significant exploit some years later, not from him…
(formerly WN0FVD, 1951) I began in 1951, went to Omaha Nebraska for the Novice Test. Don't remember how long it took to get my license, but the first contact was after I got home from High School, using my father's rig. It had a pair of 1625's modulated by another…
(formerly, WN0EBA, 1951; W0EBA; K7AUS; KB8GLE; N8KQV; KE8ZS; WV8B) As far as I have been able to determine, I was the FIRST Novice licensed in the state of North Dakota. During my final year of High School, I spent considerable time with Vic, W0CPS, who was the electrician, refrigeration repair,…
(formerly WH6NEZ, 1951) I went to the FCC field office in Honolulu on July 2, 1951 (a Monday) the first day that the novice license was available and took the test with about 6 others. We all passed as far as I can remember. I had all 5 minutes of…
(formerly WN4TMJ, 1951) Reading the Novice history article in the latest QCWA Journal sure brought back some memories. In the early Fall of 1951, one of my friends named Jim Harrell and I took the bus from Raleigh, NC to Winston-Salem, NC, to the Federal building there to take our…
(formerly, WN4TDZ, 1951) My name is Charles Curle, I was first licensed as WN4TDZ in July of 1951. In your 2nd article in the novice history series for the QCWA Journal, Spring 2008, you mentioned on page 51 of not being able to contact Mr. George Cook, WN4TDY (the first…
(formerly WN0DYF, 1951) I took my novice examination at the FCC Office in the Federal Building in St. Paul, MN shortly after the its introduction July 1, 1951. Several weeks later, I received my Novice permit with the call sign WN0DYF. Based on your article indicating WN0DVX as the first…
(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…
Formerly WN9PPG (1951) In the spring of 1951, I was 12 years old and had been trying to get ready to take the General Class amateur Radio Examination (Back then it was called Class B). Somewhere at about 10-11wpm, I had met my code stumbling block. Then I learned that…
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