I actually got my novice in 2000 and passed CW and then that was in April,
and then the next year was when I got my tech.





On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Steve wrote:

> Well, I got my Novice in July of 1964 at the age of nine years ten months.
> Unfortunately, I didn't pass the Conditional in time to keep my original call.
>
> I had a couple highlights during my first year.  Just before receiving my
> license, I fractured my ankle.  My older sister was talking to the x-ray tech
> and told him I was studying to be a ham.  It turned out he was wn8mda.  I met
> several other novices, and one of them lent me a DX-35 which was my Novice
> transmitter.
>
> On November 13,   which was a Friday by the way, my re-conditioned NC-300
> arrived in the mail as an early Christmas present, it was from the famous
> World Radio Labs in Council Bluffs.
>
> Final highlight was getting up in the middle of the night to work California
> on 40 meters.  I remember I got so excited I woke my parents up and my father
> had to work early the next morning.
>
> Steve, K8SP
>