I became interested in Amateur Radio, 1975 when a friend showed me his single transistor, FM 'transmitter'. Later I learned it was just an unbuffered Colpitts oscillator, about five turns of copper in the coil and a something picofarad capacitor and the 300 ohm twin aerial as part of the tuned circuit, modulated by a tape deck line output on the base of the BD235 transistor.
When I discovered Amateur Radio, the literature of the day said that KA+3 callsigns were American military stationed in Japan. Earning my G4ICV in 1979, I learned quickly that those KA callsigns, most of them, were novices in the 21.1 to 21.2 MHz band. I have 'Worked All States' CW as G4ICV, and probably half of my QSL cards are from novices in that segment - a few of them joyously declaring in CW and on the cards that I was their first DX. What a forlorn band that is now. Ian, G4ICV (1979), AB2GR (1999), K2 #4962 (2005) relative rookie at just 27 years as a Radio Amateur. -- _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
