[AMRadio] Getting on the Air - May 2008 QST

[Tom Filecco]

On 4/21/08, Bob Bruno - K2KI <k2ki at starc.org> wrote:
> Hi Joe, and to all the AMRadio members,
>
> I agree. Amateur Radio has been hit too many time with the "Dummy-Down
> Stick" or "Nerf Bat".
>
> I got my novice ticket on May 14, 1984. At 49 years old, I too am a
> newcomer to this hobby. My very first rig was a Viking II. And the rcvr
> was an HQ-129 with a 110V Dow-Key. Lotsa voltages there that can kill

You mean it wasn't that two meter Gonset you kept in your Chevy Nova
so you could listen to the "135" machine?

:)