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Neil D. Friedman, N3DF
(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.Read more...
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Please share with your fellow hams a story of your Novice year(s). The story should mainly focus on your Novice period. A story can be a photo or a few lines of text to a full blown story of several pages.
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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
Special Interest
This page contains stories of special interest that may not fit in a usual "decades" category. Watch for more material here.
Jack Brown, W6EQH (sk)
This article is the first in our special topic on school based amateur radio programs in the Novice era. In this article we will tell of the career of an particular high school electric shop teacher, Jack Brown, W6EQH (sk) whose 33 year career at three Los Angeles area high schools resulted in him teaching over 2,000 students (http://www.cadigital.com/buchwald.htm). While 2,000 plus students is impressive, overly focusing on the quantity may lead to missing the historical-socio-cultural significance of Jack's career which parallels the rise in fall of the industrial arts (sometimes called vocational arts) education movement in the United States.
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