Joe,
This reflects upon the importance you assigned to that 'life event'. I
also recall waiting for my envelope to arrive in January 1962... but I
think Half-Heimers has already erased part of my jubilation because I
don't remember it in quite the delicious detail that you do!
I do, however, remember bicycling to my buddies house a couple miles
away and using his RME4350A and DX40 to make my very first CW contact.
That was on 15 meters using the 2-element 15 meter beam mounted on a
recycled utility pole that his dad had installed for that purpose. Oh,
and the yagi was a "plumbers delight" using EMT tubing instead of aluminum!
Subsequently I made a trip to the local ham radio emporium (Electronics
Center in Minneapolis) and saw a used Knight Kit T-50 CW transmitter on
the shelf. I didn't have enough money to pay for it outright, but the
manager, Ward Jensen - WØTLE (sk), allowed me to purchase it on
'credit'... $5 a week for a couple of months. He didn't even know me but
probably recognized the young kids' glean in the eye and enthusiasm, and
was willing to 'risk' $29 to help me get started in ham radio.
73 de Bob - KØRC in MN
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On 11/11/2011 8:31 AM, Joe wrote:
> When I read comments like this it totally flabbergasts me. When I got
> my ticket in September of 1975, it is a day I will never ever forget
> till the day I die, (unless i get Alzheimer's or something like that)
> Is the getting your ticket that low of importance that you can not even
> remember what year?
> Not only do I remember the year, 1975, but the month, September, and
> the Date, it was the 15th, And a Monday.
>
> It was a dull gray overcast day probably in the 50's, I still remember
> opening the mailbox and finding that envelope. Opening it right then and
> there, and yelling YEAH!!!!
>
> Then I immediately got in my car and drove to my buddies house (we took
> our novice test the same day) And I guess illegally looked in his
> mailbox and found the same envelope. I placed the front of it against
> the glass of his door and rang the doorbell.
>
> When he opened the door I will also never forget his expression when he
> saw that envelope. There isn't a drug out there that could have made
> either of us any higher than getting those envelopes that day.
>
> How anyone can not remember this stuff just baffles me.
>
> Joe ex WN9SBD Now WB9SD
>
> On 11/10/2011 1:51 PM, Scott Monks wrote:
>> I
>> am not a new ham-licensed “around” 1986 (since I’ve long lost my original
>> license I don’t know actual year and there is no easy place to find actual
>> date!!).
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