[CQ-Contest] Inspiration or Pop Tronics?

[Zack Widup]

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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