I got my start in 1963 with a Arvin solid state radio listening to broadcast stations. Mom bought me a map of the U.S. and push pins and I would make radio stations. 
In 1965 a leader in my scout troop loaned me a BC348 and opened up the world to me! Shortwave stations all over! Pirare shortwave stations!
I had to learn Morse code in Boy Scouts. One day I heard this slowwwwwaw code in 7mhz band and it just sounded like guys chatting .  
When I asked my scout leader who they were he said “those are hams” I asked him what a ham was and the rest is history!!
Ron W5SUM 

WN5AIA in 1969!


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On Feb 15, 2022, at 4:21 PM, Hubert Miller <[email protected]> wrote:



Maybe some of you were doing SWLing during the 1960s – 1970s. I recall listings of stations and some with

comment like "frequency varying 11771 – 11772.5 kcs."  These were African or South America stations, some

big national operations, some donut shop sized. I always wondered what kind of transmitters those stations

used.

-Hue Miller

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