Many if not most HS in the NYC-LI area had clubs in the 50's. We were the
training grounds and fresh meat for the regular clubs FD operators efforts.
The first HS I went to was a Catholic one in the middle of Brooklyn. It used
a Meissner Ex Signal shifter driving a HB 813 with 811 modulators built by
one of the Brothers who was a WW2 Army radio tech and was my math teacher.
The receiver was a HQ-129X with Hallicrafters Panadaptor. The antenna was a
Telrex 3 el Christmas tree on the roof 5 stories above the street. It was
easy working DX with that setup and the call was W2ZLK.
The 2nd one was out on LI and we had a brand new DX-100 with a NC-240D to
two 400' long wires at almost right angles tied off to trees in the
adjoining state park. It was there that I developed a lifelong hate for
antenna tuners (-;. We used our own calls and the paper work for a club call
was in process when I graduated.
Carl
KM1H
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike" <noddy1211@sbcglobal.net>
To: <amps@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 12:52 AM
Subject: Re: [Amps] Fleamarkets and more
> My high school also had a Ham Radio club, the physics teachers was a ham.
> The scout troop I belonged to also had a club with really nice equipment
> and
> plenty of space for HF antennas which we constructed, erected and tested.
>
> The days of Magnets and Miracles.
>
> Mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
>
> I went to 2 high schools in the 50's. Both had ham clubs with stations and
> I
>
> learned the code and took my Novice at the first.
>
> Carl
> KM1H
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike" <noddy1211@sbcglobal.net>
> To: <amps@contesting.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 6:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [Amps] Fleamarkets and more
>
>
>>I have tried many times to get people from my local club (40 members) over
>> to my station. Our local club like most in the USA and has turned into a
>> 2
>> meter repeater support club and most of the discussions are about how to
>> improve the club repeaters and how best to spend the club funds on them.
>>
>> Clubs are not what they were 20 years ago unfortunately.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>
>>
>> The discussion here is alarming but absolutely true. I wonder if most of
>> us
>> are at fault by not allowing those "newbies" or future "newbies" to come
>> to
>> our stations/shacks/shops and see, touch (no HV), smell, and experience
>> HF
>> ham radio. To see what it is to build our own equipment and operate on
>> HF.
>> To hear the guy from Portland or Madagascar coming out of the speaker.
>> To
>> see the electronic shop and projects on the bench. I know that caught my
>> attention many decades ago.
>>
>> Lee - K0WA
>>
>>
>> In our day and age it seems that Common Sense is in short supply. If you
>> don't have any Common Sense - get some Common Sense and use it. If you
>> can't find any Common Sense, ask for help from somebody who has some
>> Common
>> Sense. Is Common Sense divine?
>>
>> Common Sense is the image of the Creator expressing revealed truth in my
>> mind. - J. Wolf
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