Dunc,
Everything is relative and boy can I appreciate your joy with the old
HRO. There was a good bit to be said for the Novice Class license. I
remember in 1960 operating with a military surplus RBG2 (Super Pro) and TCS
crystal controlled in my case tank transmitter. My father(later WA4GHS),
when I was age 13 and just back from Boy Scouts Camp gave me his old
Hallicrafters S38 originally purchased to listen to the Irish Short Wave
Station which never came to be. I used the S38 till age 15 and sold it and
along with money from selling doughnuts door to door and some baby sitting
money purchased the RGB 2 with the help of K4GHS who also lent me the TCS.
Later there were a few home brew rigs and NBFM to get on phone. Those were
good days. By age seventeen I had a Drake 2B which took all of a summers
work to purchase. Now it is a K3! Life is still good even if the joints
are stiff.
73 Doug EI2CN ex KN4WQZ
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