Me too! For me it was 1957 - the peak of the best sunspot cycle ever. Every morning before going to school I was in my cellar ham "shack" working my way through the rest of the world on 21.1+ with a DX-20, a dipole, an HQ-100, and a QTH right at the ocean's edge. DXing like shooting fish in a barrel. Great fun. The Novice license in those days was valid for one year and NON-renewable. It was one year, then up or out. (I was KN1CBR then, became K1CBR later, then went back to KN1CBR when vanity calls became available, purely as a matter of nostalgia.) These days I am recapturing some of it - but not the technical primitivity - with my KX3 and indoor dipole (at 21.02 Mhz) in an urban condo in Denver. Still great fun!
Ted, KN1CBR > >------------------------------ > >Message: 25 >Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 22:43:05 -0400 >From: Barry LaZar <[email protected]> >To: [email protected], Elecraft Reflector <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [Elecraft] [KX3] Activity in ancient 15-meter novice band > (21.1 MHz) >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > >Wayne, > I remember that band. It was my favorite even though I wasn't a >novice. I met some of the friendliest hams in the world there, to >include some great DX. > >73, >Barry >K3NDM > > >On 5/25/2014 4:03 PM, Wayne Burdick [email protected] [KX3] wrote: >> >> Thanks to the PX3 panadapter and the CQ WW CW contest, I just made my >> first QSO in at least three decades in the legacy 21.1 MHz U.S. >> Novice-license segment. I didn't expect activity to spread upward that >> far, but sure enough, blips appeared on the PX3 above 21.1, and I was >> able to make a quick QSO with WK1Q using 12 W (KX3 barefoot). >> >> This brought back a lot of memories. 21.1-21.15 was my favorite place >> to hang out back in the 1970s, when I was crystal-controlled on >> transmit, using a Heath HW-16. In those days I had a home-rolled >> 2-element 15-meter yogi made from 1/2-inch steel pipe and 2x4s. Must >> have weighed 40 pounds. Fortunately, my patient stepfather knew that >> getting that antenna up would keep me out of trouble (I was 15 at the >> time). >> >> Wayne >> N6KR >> >> __._,_.___ >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
