Hi Phil,
That is really neat.
I am so glad you have something so special to celebrate.
Congratulations and I hope you have many years of enjoyment ahead of you.
Colleen, N8TNV;
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From: carolyn johnson <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Friday, Apr 25, 2014 03:30:29 PM
Subject: Re: Happy Ham's Day
>
>
> Happy anivercery on being a ham for 48 years. That was a wonderful story.
> Why don't you submit that so it can go into qst magazine?
>
> Carolyn Kj4vt
>
>
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> From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 3:32 PM
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Happy Ham's Day
>
> > It was 48 years ago today I made my first contact as a novice. I was at
> > the
> > school for the blind when my mom called from home on a Monday afternoon
> > and
> > told me my ticket came. I had her repeat the call sign a dozen times to
> > be
> > sure. I had been walking to our regular Monday after school student
> > council
> > meeting. I was representing the 9th grade, and the office secretary
> > called
> > out the office door as I passed by going to the library for the meeting.
> > She said, "Phil. You have a phone call." The only person who called me
> > at
> > school was generally my uncle in Kansas but this time it was my mom with
> > the
> > good news. I hunt up the phone, and spun around and took a step to the
> > open
> > office door. Our superintendent was a nice guy and although he was not a
> > ham, he made sure we always had good equipment, unless one of our radios
> > was
> > down for repair, but he called out and said, "Hey, Phil. You got your
> > license." It wasn't a question. I was so out of it, I just grunted a
> > yes,
> > and ran down the hall to the radio room. A couple of friends were already
> > in the ham shack and one was a novice of about 3 months. I told him to
> > move
> > over, I was getting on the air. It took them a few seconds to believe me
> > but when I threatened to dump him off the king's chair in front of the
> > radio, he got the picture. At this time, our DX60 was off the air so I
> > used
> > an A T 1 on 80 meters to make my first contact. I was WN0ORO and my first
> > countact with another guy in Nebraska and his call was WN0OHO. We kept in
> > touch for years after that. After supper that night, I was back in the
> > ham
> > shack pounding out CQ again and having the time of my life. To this day,
> > although I only had my novice license 6 months before I took the general
> > class, it was still the most fun I had as a ham. The guy I almost dump
> > out
> > of the chair lived at home where the school for the blind was so we worked
> > each other, building up our code speed, in the evenings and then when
> > school
> > was out for the summer. We had a lot of the same crystals so we ended up
> > working each other hundreds of times that summer. We even started a
> > midnight schedule which we carried on for years after getting our generals
> > and could work side band.
> >
> > Phil.
> > K0NX
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