I enjoy hearing stories like this. Unfortunately bye the time I was 
interested in getting my ticket the station at the Minnesota school was no 
longer operating.

73

Scott

Zl1CHM / N0HOK

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brett Winches" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2008 8:29 AM
Subject: Re: On This Date


> Awesome Phil. =20
>
> 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). =20
>
>
>
>
> =20
>
> Thank you!
> Brett Winchester   KD7JN
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> =20
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> =20
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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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