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Now that I'm into my 40th year as a ham, there are many quite memorable
experiences.
Here are several that can be told in a sentence or two.
At 2:30 AM one Saturday morning in February of 1970, I called CQ on 7175,
using my Viking Ranger transmitter, Hammarlund HQ110 receiver, and the
folded dipole that I've mentioned here several times. I was answered by a
KH6, and we talked for 30 minutes.
In July of that year, using the same equipment with a loaded 15 meter
rotatable dipole built from the ARRL Handbook, I worked Australia and
Holland about 20 minutes apart for my first DX outside the states and
Canada.
The antenna was only at 20 feet, almost a half wave up for 15 meters. Once I
replaced it with an old TH4
tri-bander, 3 other Novice friends used that dipole for their first DX
contacts before it finally came down in a storm.
When I attended my first Birmingham, Alabama hamfest in 1972, I met the
first ham that I talked with on AM after passing my General in 1970. By
then, we had talked regularly for 2 years, and had both just gotten sideband
rigs.
More to come later.
Mike Duke, K5XU
American Council of Blind Radio Amateurs
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