Topband: Top band: 79th Anniversary of my 1st Ham License

[Franco -PY1EPU]

Paul,

What to speak of its history ??

Anything............

A lesson of love for amateur radio

Congratulations

73, Franco
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De: Topband [mailto:topband-bounces at contesting.com] Em nome de john
Enviada em: quarta-feira, 20 de janeiro de 2016 09:49
Para: topband at contesting.com
Assunto: Re: Topband: 79th Anniversary of my 1st Ham License

congrats Paul,   one of the true pioneers of ham radio,,geeezzz I was 
not even born till 1941.
Many years to come :-) 73 john w8wej

On 1/20/2016 6:35 AM, Paul Elliott wrote:
> My first ham license was dated January 19, 1937. I was 14 years old, a 
> sophomore in high school in Kingsville, Texas.  Parts from defunct 
> Atwater Kent AM receivers (all radios in those days were AM-no FM yet) 
> to build a two tube (types 57 and 56) regenerative receiver and a TNT 
> (type 45 tube) transmitter-all 40 meters. Key was a broken off piece 
> of hacksaw blade mounted on a piece of 1x4 pine board.  The Brandes 
> earphones had external connectors with the full plate voltage (about 
> 100 vdc) of the receiver on them.  Antenna was a piece of wire going 
> out the window to a tree-highest point about 15 feet. The ratio of 
> QSOs to stations called was not very great-but it was not zero.
>
> My first ever DX contact was in August 1937 with VK2SS on 40m CW.  A 
> WAG is that I probably was running about 5 watts-was using a dial lamp 
> to measure
> (?) input current.  His QSL is in its own special frame hanging on my
wall.
>
> QTH for the past 25 years has been a 120x120 foot lot, electrically 
> quite noisy, in Hobbs NM.  Two wire transmitting antennas.. An 
> inverted L, about
> 3/8 wavelength on 160m, fed against what radials I could put down. 
> Feedline is 100 feet or so of 1" hardline. Using a homebrew tuner in 
> the shack this antenna is used on all 9 HF bands. The other is a 60 
> foot slanted dipole, with open wire feedline and its own tuner.  It is
used on 40m thru 10m.
> Receiving antennas are two Ewes and a 100 foot wire two feet off the 
> ground next to a concrete block fence.  This piece of wire is a 
> surprisingly good receiving antenna sometimes.
>
> About 20 years ago I started working on a WAS on 160 m.  After that I 
> started chasing DX.  Most of my operation is on CW but will use phone 
> when necessary.
>
> Presently have 186 countries confirmed on 160 m, have 325 on160m thru 10m.
>
> Time and life have taken their toll. It used to be CW at 35-40wpm.
> Declining finger dexterity limits me to about 25 wpm while transmitting.
> Time constants in the brain limit receiving to about the same range as 
> sending. At higher speeds I can still hear letters clearly-but they 
> don't melt together to make words.  Really simple, though-a man goes 
> with what he has.
>
> My thanks to those on this forum who have been very kind to me over 
> the years.  Your kindness and expertise are not forgotten.
>
> 73  Paul W5DM
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