It was the summer of 1968 and I was about 15 years old. I'd had my general a little over a year, as I recall, and my Uncle Fred drove up from Wichita Kansas to pick me and my ham gear up. I was going down to his house in the country for a couple of weeks. I had 200 feet of 14 gage wire, some insulators, and a hundred feet of RG58 coax that I brought along with my Drake TR4. Another uncle, after arriving in Wichita, told me he had a couple of 30 foot telephone poles not being used on his acreage and he would pull them down with his tractor so I could use them at Uncle Fred's for antenna supports. Not only did he pull them down, but he trucked them over and he and my Uncle put them up for me. I showed them how the antennas went together and shortly I had an 80 and 40 meter flat top dipole up about 25 feet. My best ham buddy at the time was Lynn, WA0ODH, and he lived about 250 miles north of where I was in Wichita. He was probably my first contact from Kansas. We talked till noon on 3892, the Nebraska net frequency, but then the band closed down and we were repeating every thing we said on phone so we stayed on that frequency, and went to CW. We talked for another hour until the band died all together. Yet, CW still works when sideband can't even get through. Phil. K0NX