Re: Topband: Made it! 80 Years a Ham

2017-01-20 Thread Mike Smith VE9AA
Paul, Your email to the list was very inspiring. I truly enjoyed reading it and you can be assured it very much made my day when I was feeling a little down. I won't sugar coat it - True, you may be a little older than the average ham, but with age comes wisdom and experience. I revere

Re: Topband: Made it! 80 Years a Ham

2017-01-20 Thread Rob Atkinson
Paul congratulations. If you find time and energy to do it, I think we'd all appreciate more information or detail about your early pre-WW2 homebrew transmitters and receivers. Were the rx heterodynes or regeneratives? The rigs TNT or TPTG? Construction details and so on. I ask because not

Topband: Fw: Made it! 80 Years a Ham

2017-01-20 Thread HAROLD SMITH JR
Dear Paul, Really nice that you made it.  My class B license was issued Dec 7th, 1950. I was  16 years. Boy that 13 WPM code was fast. Now mostly over 20 WPM. My original call was W0CKC.  I got my  class A license a year later and my Extra in 1968. In 1975, having my license for 25 years,