----- Original Message -----
From: "Curtis Delzer" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2013 2:05 AM
Subject: Re: 47 years as a ham
> Wow Ron, finally saw this message, and am sorry about your dad being
> so dead set against you becoming a ham.
> wish we could QSO some more!
>
> Curtis Delzer.
> HS.
>
> K 6 V F O
> San Bernardino, CA.
>
> (formally W B 6 H E F)
>
> [log in to unmask]
>
> skype: curtis1014
>
>
>
> At 09:58 PM 04/28/13, you wrote:
>>Well...congrats to Phil and everyone who has "busted" the half century
>>mark
>>as a ham. I was first licensed in 1985 in northern California. In fact, I
>>wanted to be a ham since I was 8 years old and read the book "Today I am A
>>Ham," which I got from the Braille Book Library. I had discovered that you
>>can hear signals from far away on an am radio, etc. I sometimes heard cw
>>and
>>ssb signals on a rather poorly designed am broadcast radio (no bfo, of
>>course) I played with as well as rtty. My dad told me they were airplanes
>>talking and I thought that was neat too. My dad, however, was dead set
>>against my getting any radio gear or becoming a ham. His father was a long
>>time ham and MARS op and my dad had unpleasant memories of my
>>grandfather's
>>turning the radios in his basement shack up loud at all hours of the day
>>and
>>night, etc.
>>
>>I also didn't know where to get materials to study, as I grew up. I
>>finally
>>took the Hadley school course for Novice and was licensed, then their
>>General course to upgrade. I was an swl and scanner hobbyist for at least
>>7
>>years before getting licensed (my dad was no longer living with us) and I
>>can remember listening to Russ Kiehne, Curtis Delzer and others on a
>>number
>>of San Francisco bay area vhf and uhf repeaters and, finally being able to
>>get onto those same repeaters, and hf at long last.
>>
>>A comment made earlier by Howard #3 is very sad and one which we really
>>should be trying to address, he mentioned that all of us are all older.
>>This
>>really does distress me and I would very much like to help blind kids and
>>young adults (as well as any other kid or young adult) discover and
>>embrace
>>our hobby.
>>
>>73
>>
>>Ron Miller
>>N6MSA
>>Dunedin, Fl.
>>USA
>>SKYPE: arjay1
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>>On Behalf Of Howard, W A 9 Y B W
>>Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 10:39 AM
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Re: 47 years as a ham
>>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I just passed 45 years in February. I have noticed something strange
>>here,
>>Most all of us are getting to be old farts!!
>>
>>73
>>
>>Howard #3
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "carolyn johnson" <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 9:19 AM
>>Subject: Re: 47 years as a ham
>>
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I just passed thirty years on April first.
>> >
>> > Carolyn kj4vt
>> >
>> >
>> > --------------------------------------------------
>> > From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
>> > Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2013 4:41 PM
>> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> > Subject: 47 years as a ham
>> >
>> >> Today it has been 47 years since I got my novice at age 14. I was at
>> >> =
>> >> the Nebraska school for the blind on a Monday when I got a call from
>> >> my =
>> >> mom. My license had come and I was now WN0ORO. I hung up and ran for
>> >> =
>> >> the ham shack and worked 80 meters; working a guy about 200 miles
>> >> away.
>> >> =
>> >> My 6 months as a novice has been the highlight days of my years as a =
>> >> ham.
>> >>
>> >> Phil.
>> >> K0NX
>> >>
>> >>
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