... and a _one_ year license!
On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 4:13 PM, Mark Bayern <m...@mlb.net> wrote: > So far no one has mentioned the Novice limitations. 75 watts input to > the final, crystal controlled. (At least that is what I remember in > the mid 60's.) > > Mark AD5SS > > On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Tony Estep <estept...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 8:22 PM, Bill W4ZV <btipp...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: >> >>> The peak was actually late December 1957 (Solar Flux = 375 and sunspots = >>> 355). >>> I was very lucky to be QRV then and made the first Novice DXCC: >>> http://www.novice.bappy.com/about_21.html >>> >> ============ >> Yep, those were legendary days. I too made Novice DXCC, shortly after Bill. >> He was KN4RID in those days. I worked my 100th right after he got his, but >> I stuck my cards in a drawer and didn't send them in for over a decade. >> Finally I dug 'em out and got my DXCC certificate, issued under my novice >> call, KN0LTB. It's still up on the wall.There was one other novice who did >> it, but I can't remember who it was. The bands were open practically 24 >> hours and 15 meter CW, which was where you had to be as a novice, was >> hopping all the time. You could hear scientists from all over using calls >> ending in -IGY, standing for international geophysical year. They traveled >> to far-flung places to take readings on propagation, weather patterns, >> aurora, and anything else they expected to be affected by the record levels >> of solar activity. Those were the days of phone patches (no Skype), and 15 >> phone had a constant flow of patched conversations from scientist phoning >> back to the home folks. Even in those days there was SSB activity, mostly >> coming from 10 watt phasing exciters. Other popular rigs included the >> Viking Ranger and the Heath DX-100. The tube of the day was the 6146. The >> older hams who mentored me had home-brew rack-mounted monstrosities, >> plug-in coils, something like a pair of 250TH tubes modulated by another >> pair of 250THs, power transformer as big as a wastebasket. >> >> 73, >> Tony KT0NY >> >>> >>> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to plcm...@gmail.com ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
