Happy anivercery on being a ham for 48 years. That was a wonderful story.
Why don't you submit that so it can go into qst magazine?
Carolyn Kj4vt
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From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 3:32 PM
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Happy Ham's Day
> It was 48 years ago today I made my first contact as a novice. I was at
> the
> school for the blind when my mom called from home on a Monday afternoon
> and
> told me my ticket came. I had her repeat the call sign a dozen times to
> be
> sure. I had been walking to our regular Monday after school student
> council
> meeting. I was representing the 9th grade, and the office secretary
> called
> out the office door as I passed by going to the library for the meeting.
> She said, "Phil. You have a phone call." The only person who called me
> at
> school was generally my uncle in Kansas but this time it was my mom with
> the
> good news. I hunt up the phone, and spun around and took a step to the
> open
> office door. Our superintendent was a nice guy and although he was not a
> ham, he made sure we always had good equipment, unless one of our radios
> was
> down for repair, but he called out and said, "Hey, Phil. You got your
> license." It wasn't a question. I was so out of it, I just grunted a
> yes,
> and ran down the hall to the radio room. A couple of friends were already
> in the ham shack and one was a novice of about 3 months. I told him to
> move
> over, I was getting on the air. It took them a few seconds to believe me
> but when I threatened to dump him off the king's chair in front of the
> radio, he got the picture. At this time, our DX60 was off the air so I
> used
> an A T 1 on 80 meters to make my first contact. I was WN0ORO and my first
> countact with another guy in Nebraska and his call was WN0OHO. We kept in
> touch for years after that. After supper that night, I was back in the
> ham
> shack pounding out CQ again and having the time of my life. To this day,
> although I only had my novice license 6 months before I took the general
> class, it was still the most fun I had as a ham. The guy I almost dump
> out
> of the chair lived at home where the school for the blind was so we worked
> each other, building up our code speed, in the evenings and then when
> school
> was out for the summer. We had a lot of the same crystals so we ended up
> working each other hundreds of times that summer. We even started a
> midnight schedule which we carried on for years after getting our generals
> and could work side band.
>
> Phil.
> K0NX
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