Hi,

Well, I feal like a baby, because I loved ham radio for years, but my late 
husband got me into the hoby since he was a ham, so I got my ticket in the 
mail on April first 1983.

Carolyn Kj4vt

Oh, my first call I didn't like. It was Kb4eoq.


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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