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How old are you?
Well,
I'm 61 Novice License 1955 General License 1956 Extra Class Permit 2003 |
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You were a general at age 10?
"Litzendraht" wrote in message ups.com... Well, I'm 61 Novice License 1955 General License 1956 Extra Class Permit 2003 |
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Fred, I was a General at 11, a couple of weeks before my 12th birthday.
John |
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Litzendraht wrote:
Fred, I was a General at 11, a couple of weeks before my 12th birthday. John 75 Learning to fix radios at 11. Carrer in electronics. Ham ticket 1959. John K3OPC |
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59. Novice in 1959 (12), general 1960 (13), FCC first with CW endorsement 1961.
Grew up in NJ, with monthly trips down to NYC's "Radio Row" on Cortlandt Street, and the many surplus electronics stores along US 1 in northern NJ. Hauled many a BC-348 and BC-454 home on the train, to my Dad's dismay. (Although he did even help me put up a 50-foot telescoping steel mast in our back yard. 8 ) Worked through high schools repairing tv's in a local shop, and operating mostly from the local high school station (WA2GVV, with a DX-160 and HQ-170A), YMCA (K2YNT), and local Civil Defense office. Drafted out of college in 1966, so went down and emlisted as an MOS 05 radio operator, but wound up in OCS instead of Ft. Monmouth. Gave up operating around 1992, when I figured new call sign policies, incentive licensing and USEnet had killed ham radio, but still keep my cw skills up by listening on a 2C and an R-8500. -- Larry (ex WA2QCM) |
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pltrgyst wrote:
general 1960 (13), FCC first with CW endorsement 1961. Larry, that's quite an accomplishment. Exams in those days were taken in person at an FCC field office. No answers were published. You were strickly on your own. And the First Class ticket was really something to be proud of. John |
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On 4 Feb 2006 18:57:22 -0800, "Litzendraht" wrote:
pltrgyst wrote: general 1960 (13), FCC first with CW endorsement 1961. Larry, that's quite an accomplishment. Exams in those days were taken in person at an FCC field office. No answers were published. You were strickly on your own. And the First Class ticket was really something to be proud of. Thanks, but it didn't seem like a big deal. Several of my friends did the same thing -- we had the two very active local clubs I mentioned, and the FCC testing office in NYC was only 45 minutes away by train on our frequent shopping expeditions. The first did come in handy years later when I was working for RCA and they had their big strike, and hundreds of us non-radio/tv station employees filled in. 8 Other than that, I never used it for employment. I don't miss the redundancy of short QSOs, but I did love cw. -- Larry |
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Grew up in NJ, with monthly trips down to NYC's "Radio Row" on Cortlandt Street
Ah, the memories! I grew up in Florida and went to college in the midwest, but worked one summer for the Holmdel Bell Labs in New Jersey, and I still remember my one trip to NYC's Radio Row! (FWIW, I turned 65 last week.) -- --Myron A. Calhoun. Five boxes preserve our freedoms: soap, ballot, witness, jury, and cartridge PhD EE (retired). "Barbershop" tenor. CDL(PTXS). W0PBV. (785) 539-4448 NRA Life Member and Certified Instructor (Home Firearm Safety, Rifle, Pistol) |
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