[CQ-Contest] First License

[Martin Durham]

I was 15 years old.  January 13, 1980.  My mom called from work to say she had picked up an envelope from the FCC at the post office...I said open it!  I guess my first QSO as KA1EEF was technically illegal since my mom had the paper three miles from home. :))

Worked WD0CEP on 15m for my first qso.  Will never forget as my radio shack straight key fell apart and had to finish with the shorting bar...first DX was G3AWR about two weeks later on 15m. 

Some things you just never forget. Still have all my paper logs from that first qso on..

Good memories. 

W1MD



Martin Durham
System Engineer, Harris corp.


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On Nov 11, 2011, at 8:36 PM, "rob beaudoin" <wa1fcn at charter.net> wrote:

> First thanks BoB K0RC and Joe ex wn9sbd now wb9sd for sharing you old memories with us.
> As for me I do not remember getting my general or advanced or extra, but I sure as heck
> remember getting my novice wn1fcn sept 1965. my mother took me to evans radio in Concord N. H.
> i got a national nc300 and Ranger 1. I had a part time job, but my parents paid for most of it.
> I was 17 years old then.  Like Bob K0RC my first qso was on 15. i remeber writing down on paper 
> what I was supposed to say before my first qso ever. Boy was I nervous. I bet many of you out
> there can remeber the same trype of stories.  Be glad to read all about it.
> 73 BoB WA1FCN
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