probably not a whole lot of VY1's back then...though these days VY1 is quite 
popular and we used to hear the guys out of alaska on the various 75/80 
meter nets when I was living in VY1.
VE8 would still be a little bit of a hop for 75/80 meters from Farebanks.
73
Colin, V A6BKX
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From: "David R. Basden" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 3:13 PM
Subject: Re: Wish Me Happy Birthday


> As I mentioned earlier, I was living on an air force base near
> Fairbanks when my ticket came along.  On 80 meters there were a few
> widely scattered KL7's on plus an occasional VE8.  Below those strong
> signals from one edge of the band to the other was a sea of weak
> stations from the U.S.  It was a lot of fun being a DX station for
> all those novices!  Today on 80 it's hard to find a CW QSO.
>
> 73,
>
> Dave, W7OQ
>
> At 11:39 AM 4/26/2010, you wrote:
>
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>>This reminiscing is fun.
>>
>>I got my Novice WN8NHW on July 9, 1964.  I borrowed a friend's DX-35 
>>xmitter
>>and worked mainly forty with xtals for 7161 and 7169; I think I had 
>>another
>>Crystal for 15 meters, but I didn't get on that band much.  I think it
>>pretty much closed up at night during the school year, as I think 1964 was
>>the bottom of a cycle.
>>
>>Later that year, my parents purchased a rebuilt NC-300 which replaced an 
>>old
>>Heathkit GR-91 which I think might have been a regenerative receiver.  The
>>300 ran circles around it.
>>
>>I didn't pass my Conditional until the summer of 1966 so I received my new
>>call, WA8VAA in September and got a Viking Invader transmitter to use with
>>the 300 receiver.
>>
>>By then, the upper HF bands were pretty active, I worked quite a bit on 
>>20,
>>15 and 10 just using a trap dipole.
>>
>>I think the most exciting moment for me was working California on 40 CW a
>>few months after I got my Novice ticket.  I remember staying up pretty 
>>late
>>until the band was long enough for me to work them.  My antenna was only 
>>20
>>feet up so it didn't hear very well under most circumstances.
>>
>>Steve, K8SP
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