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Al Woodhull, N1AW
(formerly KN1BOW, 1957) I got interested through Boy Scouts, my first merit badge was Radio when I was 11 years old. I never had an Elmer before I was licensed. I probably could have if I had looked around or if a local club had an outreach program, but if…
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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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(1955) I remember my novice station. It wasn't much by today's standards. I started building it in 1954, but didn't get my license until June 1955. A 6AG7 single tube Colpitts oscillator transmitter built on a wooden box because I couldn't afford to buy a metal chassis. (I didn't know…
(formerly KN6KDE, 1955) I am ex KN6KDE, Novice from March 1955 to July 1955, just a short few months. It has been my experience that most anyone really interested in ham radio was a Novice for only a short time (who needs longer?). My friends that I met on the…
(ex-KN4BOM, 1955) 1952/1955: The CQ Twins (Clint, W9AV & Quent, W6RI) The year was 1955. Dwight Eisenhower was president, and it was a much simpler time, especially in Memphis, Tennessee where 12-year-old Clint Sprott (ex-KN4BOM) has just received his Novice ham license in the mail. Two years earlier, 11-year old…
(formerly WN1EMM, 1955) Two of us in our high school (Lebanon, NH) were interested in electronics and such. We got excited about Ham radio and through the help of two local Elmers (One was W1VEG, I can't remember the other.) We both got our novice licenses in 1955. My friend…
(formerly KN6IQF, 1955) I entered Hami (Los Angeles's Alexander Hamilton High School) in 1955 as a geeky 10th grader. It was, and I guess it still is a 3-year high school. At the time I thought it luck, but now I'm thinking that it was wisdom on the part of…
(formerly KN9ACT, 1955) With the help of then W9GNA who elmered me and gave me the Novice test in 1955, I got on the air on May 28, 1955. I still have the log book and I called CQ at 6:01 PM and was answered by WN9JHX, Jim Jensen. I…
(formerly KN8ADD, 1955) Fair to say, most novices were young people... perhaps still in school though we know many came to the hobby later in life. For me, it was in 1955 when I was 15. My interest had developed after I was given a Hallicrafters receiver (S-38C) as birthday…
(formerly KN2MTW, 1955) This is how my FCC Novice license leads to my teaching certificate As a youngster in the late 1940's I was intrigued with my father's radio repair shop situated in what once was our coal bin - in the cellar on Westminster Street in the Kensington section…
(formerly WN3BJG, 1955) Did you ever think that at the age of 10 or 11, you would look forward to going to a junk yard and spending several hours looking thru piles of (war surplus) residue for some goodies that appealed to you at the time but that you had…
(formerly WN0ZQP, 1955) I think it was early 1955 when I was issued WN0ZQP. I lived on the 2nd floor of a 3 floor apartment bldg in Denver Colorado. I was 23 Yrs. Old. My Father and I lived together and he had always been interested in electronics but lacked…
(formerly WN3AWU, 1955) I was introduced to and caught the amateur radio "bug" in 1954 when I spent the weekend at the home of a high school friend, Keith Cooper, W3TQI, who lived about 25 miles north of Pittsburgh, PA. Keith urged me to join our HS radio club sponsored…
(formerly KN4CNW, 1955) My novice ticket arrived in the mail on Saturday April 16, 1955 around 1:00 PM. After screwing up my courage, I called CQ on 40 meters and was answered by W4PKD. I was so nervous that I didn't copy hardly anything that the guy on the other…
(formerly WN9OPD, 1955) I received my Novice Ticket in February of 1955. I moved from Minneapolis, MN to Maywood, IL in 1954. While attending Proviso HS, I ate lunch with some guys who were hams and some who were preparing to be. I decided to go for my Novice ticket…
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