Dave,
that's a great story.

Phil.
K0NX



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From: "David R. Basden" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, December 25, 2009 8:51 PM
Subject: Re: December 25


> Hi Phil,
>
> That reminds me that tomorrow, December 26, was the date of issue on
> my novice ticket back in 1956.  Tomorrow I will have been licensed
> for 53 years.  Of course, I bootlegged a couple of months before my
> ticket arrived.  We were in Alaska at the time and it took the FCC
> six months to get my ticket to me.  I was just 16 years old and
> couldn't wait any longer.  I bootlegged a friend's call who was off
> on a weather flight and wouldn't you know it, a friend of his gave me
> a call.  The next radio club meeting he mentioned to my friend that
> he had enjoyed their QSO, whereupon my friend mentioned he was off on
> a flight.  They turned and looked at me.  I was pretty embarrassed
> and was ham celebate for the next couple of months till my ticket arrived.
>
> 73 de W7OQ, Dave
>
>
> At 06:14 PM 12/25/2009, you wrote:
>
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>>There is never a Christmas that goes by that I don't recall working 
>>country
>>number 100 on 15 CW.  It was probably the Christmas of 1967 so I would 
>>have
>>been about 15 years of age.  That Christmas morning, I got up, fired up my
>>Drake TR4 and snagged a YO on CW and just then, my mom yelled downstairs 
>>to
>>come up and open presence.  That country number 100 felt pretty good as 
>>it's
>>own Christmas gift.
>>
>>Phil.
>>K0NX
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