Hi,

OK on those FCC QSLs.  Back in the 50s they really did watch the edges of 
the ham bans.  I had a crystal that was labeled as 3752, 2 khz inside the 
novice band.  However, the FCC disagreed, they said it was on 3749.97 
khz.  They asked me what I was going to do about it and I reported that I 
was not going to use that crystal anymore.  That seemed to work.

By the way, I was using a Heathkit A T 1 and it was a 4 band rig.  I think 
it covered 75, 40, 20 and either 15 or 10 meters.  The old transmitter is 
now in the garage someware lost in the junk.  I also used the companion 
reciever that I had built, the A R-1 as I remember.  It was not a very good 
reciever and a tough one to put together and aline.  In my novice days I 
was KN6JIG.

Carl W6RGH

At 10:26 AM 4/24/2006, you wrote:
>My first Q S L came from the F C C and I just about had a s--t hemorrhage  I
>was going to practice my new call.  .
>I bought a Antenna surplus used on a tank hooked up to a tuner that I did
>not know how to use.  The trans was a Heath A T 1.  I leaned it against the
>work bench in my basement and give my Kn7JVf call about ten times and the F
>C C office in Origon sent me a pinkey saying I was putting a second harmonic
>out of the bands and told me to write back and tell them what I had done to
>correct the problem.  Don't know what I told them but I bet it was something
>incoherent. That was in 59.   Ed K7UC