Very well put, Jeff. Ditto.
73
Russ
W6OHM
--- On Wed, 12/3/08, Jeff Carter <amps@hidden-valley.com> wrote:
> Hank,
>
> Thanks so much for writing. While I still feel a bit sad
> for having
> missed the Golden Age of Amateur Radio, without the work
> done by you
> and your contemporaries, it's possible that I might
> have been left
> with nothing at all.
<Snip>
> and I'd like
> to say thanks to all of you who fall in that category.
> Regardless of
> what I go on to accomplish in Amateur Radio or
> professionally, I
> gratefully acknowledge those upon whose shoulders I stand.
>
> Jeff/KD4RBG
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Hi Jeff - I have been a ham for 57 years now -
>
> Yes , I think there was a golden age of Ham Radio and I
> think it was about
> 1960 and before. A lot of it is society - back in the
> 50's all you had to do
> was mention you were gonna put up an antenna or tower - and
> 5 cars would
> show up at your house on a Saturday am to get it up. (And
> you would do the
> same for others ). I just had my KT34 and a rotary dipole
> and my 80 meter
> inv vee put back up after spending a few months rebulding
> everything - it
> was all originally put up by myself and two friends in
> about 1971 - but
> somehow all of us got old in the past 37 years and
> can't climb anymore. I
> belong to a big DX and contest club - and asked on the club
> reflector about
> who did antenna work - and said I did not expect a freebie
> - just needed to
> get it back up - got no response - Finally found a couple
> guys who charge
> $100 an hour and charge for driving time to your house - so
> it cost me about
> $800 for the two sessions (taking down everything so I
> could rebuild it and
> then putting it all back up ) Big difference . Seems like
> nobody has any
> time anymore. Of course some is the big city - maybe small
> towns still do
> like we did in the 50's.
>
> Field day was always a lot of fun - and Hamfests were dawn
> to dark - now
> they are dawn to about noon around here and everybody is
> gone.
>
> Oh well an old geezer just remembering .
>
> 73 de Hank K7HP
>
> BTW I am 74 retired from Motorola Semiconductor RF
> Operations in 1998.
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