[AMRadio] Old Novice Days

[Joe Crawford]

As I said in an earlier post( also borne out by my log) the date was 
November 15th, 1972. I had to buy new crystals from Mock Electronics in 
Huntsville, AL. They had two in the 7100-7150 range for $2.00 each!!But I 
had borrowed an HW-16 and HG-10 VFO (after I found out the VF-1 was 
cathode-keyed, not grid-block keying). I could have modded it, but it didn't 
belong to me. When I let the HW-16 go back to the guy who owned it, I bought 
a Globe Scout 65A and used some old 7030-7050 crystals to triple to 15m, 
where I found lots of DX. Got my General in June, 1973. Had to wait on 
license, as call had to change from WN to WA or WB. I got a retread WA4, 
which seemed to anger some of the older guys who had later WA4's. They would 
die right now if they  knew I had the second oldest call in W4.I will always 
remember the SWL days and the Novice days
                                            Joe W4AAB 

Mark Bell writes: 

> I studied for my Novice in the late spring/early summer 1973, and the 40M
> frequency was 7100 to 7150. 
> 
> I recall, if my memory isn't going completely, that some of the OTs back
> then said I was lucky  because there were rules that just changed allowing
> Novices to use VFO's;  that may have been when the 40M band was shifted. 
> 
> I checked my old novice log (starting in Sept 1973), and I show all 40M
> stuff from 7100 to 7150. 
> 
> 73 Mark K3MSB (ex WN3VJL) 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Don Schichler" <schich at frontiernet.net>
> To: "Discussion of AM Radio" <amradio at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 11:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Old Novice Days 
> 
> 
>> Joe - I just dug out my musty old 1973 ARRL Handbook, and on page 14 it
>> shows the Novice band on 7100 to 7150.  So that narrows it down to either
>> late '72 or '73 that it was changed.  Seems like it was later than that,
> but
>> time flies - hi hi!  It's fun to do a little amateur radio research now
> and
>> then. 
>>
>> Don K2FY 
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Joe Crawford" <crawfish at surfmore.net>
>> To: "Discussion of AM Radio" <amradio at mailman.qth.net>
>> Cc: <garyschafer at comcast.net>
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 9:29 PM
>> Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Old Novice Days 
>>
>>
>> > In 1972 the 40m Novice band was 7150-7200. I know because I was there.
>> Refer
>> > to 1970 ARRL Handbook page 14 at the left bottom of the page. Seems like
>> the
>> > change was made in late 1972 or a little later.
>> >                               Joe W4AAB (ex-WN4AUX 1972-73) 
>>
>>
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