great stuff Phil!
great times to look back on.  Sometimes being a young person and 
experiencing something so close to ones heart is an amazing thing.
I'm sure I'll look back on my younger years when I get up to your ripe old 
age and fondly remember experiences I've had.
*ducking* I know, your not all that old, but i'm still under 30 so I can get 
away with saying things like that hi hi.
73
Colin, V A6BKX
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2010 10:33 AM
Subject: Wish Me Happy Birthday


> At about 3:15 PM central time 44 years ago today, I received my novice 
> call
> sign of WN0ORO and running as fast as I could go to the ham shack we had 
> at
> the Nebraska school for the blind, I burst through the door and told a
> friend of mine, and a couple of other guys sitting around the receiver, to
> move over because I was getting on the air.  They didn't believe me at 
> first
> but it didn't take them long.  I called my first, on the air CQ, as 
> WN0ORO/0
> because we did not have a station club call sign at the school at that 
> time.
> I was on 37 15 KHz and the guy who answered me was WN0OHO in York 
> Nebraska.
> We became close friends over the years and worked each other as novices, 
> and
> later as generals, for many years on 80 and 75 meters.  The transmitter I
> used was an AT1 running 30 watts input with a dipole on the roof of the
> school up about 30 feet.  Our DX60 was in the shop for repair.  My 
> receiver
> I used that day was the SX99 and I spent, from then on, every minute of my
> lunch breaks, after school hours, and after supper hours, in the ham shack
> and on the air.  I had my novice for 7 months before my general ticket 
> came
> in the mail.  At home, I first started out with a DX20 which ran 10 watts
> output to a 100 foot long wire with no tuner up 30 feet.  I had a BC 345
> receiver at home.  Eventually I got a Viking Ranger 1 for my transmitter 
> but
> for Christmas in 1966, after passing my general, my mother generously
> purchased me a Drake TR4 receiver which I ran for about the next 5 years.
> Those were some of the most enjoyable ham radio years I ever experienced, 
> 44
> years ago today.
>
> Phil.
> K0NX
> AF0H
> WA0ORO
> WN0ORO