I wonder if the probability of being an future avid DXer depended upon
whether one was first licensed near a sunspot peak or sunspot minimum?
For me the working of a WH6 on 40M just before school was the clincher.
Ruined a bunch of FT-243 xtals trying to grind them down for near the
Novice 15 and 40 M band lower edges.
Worst DX: "Working" the FCC when supposedly on 80M but bandswitch on
40M. So being crystal controlled didn't mean you couldn't operate
outside the Novice bands...
73 de Brian/K3KO
On 5/26/2014 14:31, Dauer, Edward wrote:
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
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