Nice to remember "the good ole days" Ronnie. No amount of Foreign radios or internet will ever beat that.
I arrived in 1955 with homebrew transmitter, regen receiver and then Haliscratchers S77 and ARC-5 receiver. Better than Hershey !! Keep Going. 73 DE Charlie, K0NG .. Quoting "ronnie.hull" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > a recent qso about novice days, stimulated my interest and I got out my old > log books. My very first cq qso was on november 24, 1969, with WN8AAD, George > > in Hamden Ohio, on 7.160mhz, at 22:45 I wonder whatever happened to ole > George? > > Anyway, I was running an Eico 720 and a Drake 2B with a dipole of course! > > I staid on 40 until the spring of 1970 when I discovered 15 and 10 meters. > Suddenly, my lowly 50 watts of output was working the entire world. The > Acquistion of a TA-33Jr and a rotator and 50' of heigth, really opened up the > > airwaves. Man, those were fun days. > > 73's de W5SUM > > ex: WN5AIA & WB5AIA > > "Be sure your right, then go ahead" D.Crockett > ______________________________________________________________ > AMRadio mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net >
