[CQ-Contest] Inspiration or Pop Tronics?
Zack Widup
w9sz at prairienet.org
Thu Oct 4 08:53:04 EDT 2001
On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 K7LXC at aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 10/3/01 9:20:11 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> k8cc at mediaone.net writes:
>
> > Station descriptions do have their place. I initially got started in ham
> > radio by reading the column by Herb Brier (W9???) in Popular Electronics
> > magazine which people would send in station descriptions and what they
> were
> > working. For the most part, these were Novices but the romanticism and
> > adventure of what they were doing was what got me hooked.
>
> Me too. In fact while holding up a wall at the Stouffer at Dayton one
> year I found out that many of us (W3LPL included) had Pop Tronics SWL
> callsigns. Mine was WPE7FZ. K7WA was WPE7FN.
>
> Any more?
>
> Cheers, Steve K7LXC
>
Wow!! Talk about nostalgia!
I had one also. I believe it was WPE9IXS but it's been soooo many years
... :-)
I think I still have that certificate somewhere but it's probably at my
parents' place. I'll have to go digging the next time I visit them.
73, Zack W9SZ
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