Jim,

I remember working you a couple of times on 75 meters.  Once I got a taste 
for DX, I only came down to 75 meters to talk to Lynn and other friends.  We 
all used to hang out on 3997 from midnight on and then during the day time 
hours, 3982 was the Nebraska side band net frequency.  We started a Corn 
Husker Teenage Traffic Net on 3982 at 4 PM in the afternoon and actually had 
12 to 16 teenagers who showed up each day and that was during the summer 
months.  During poor 80 meter conditions, when propagation on 75 wasn't any 
good for 50 miles distance, Lynn and I, and others, would go over to 40 
meters on 7295 but Lynn almost exclusively worked 75 phone.  He never did 
get into DX and contesting or anything like that but he did 30 WPM on CW 
without any trouble and he didn't even work CW all that much.

Phil.
K0NX





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Shaffer" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 2:34 PM
Subject: Re: Happy Ham's Day


> Great story.  I do remember WA0ORO on 75 meters, but I was much more 
> likely to run into Lynn, ODH.
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Phil Scovell
> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 2:32 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
>
>