Awesome Phil.  

I have not done the math but 011868 was my date of license.  We did not
have equipment at the Kansas School for the blind yet so had to wait
until May for that one.  We had an 18AVQ on top of the Ad building
elevator house with who knows how much over 100 feet of coax fed by a DX
40 with an SX111 receiver.  Prior to that a BC348 receiver for listening
and code practice into a t fed wire antenna.  All the equipment was in
the teacher's lounge so  access was limited to after school, no lunch
contacts allowed).  




 

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-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Phil Scovell
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 2:14 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: On This Date

42 years ago today, April 25, 1966, at the Nebraska school for the blind
45 miles south of Omaha, I received my novice license.  I ran for the
ham shack on the ground floor, and while friends sat around listening, I
made my first on air contact.  I was, at that time, WN0ORO, and my first
contact at about
4:15 PM in the afternoon was WN0OHO who lived out in the middle of
Nebraska.
We remained friends for many years before I lost track of him.  I think
we were on 37 15 KHz.  I was using an A T 1 and SX99 receiver at the
time.
After our supper that night, I repeated the process and worked 80 meters
for a couple of hours.  I was 14 years old and loved my novice days
tremendously.

Phil.
K0NX

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