[Boatanchors] RE: Boatanchors Digest, Vol 16, Issue 18

[Ray Friess]

My uncle used his garage for TV repair back in the late 50s and early 
60s.  I remember him and dad going in there all the time, but I was 
still too young to pay much attention.   But it was because of my dad 
and two uncles that I ended up becoming interested in electronics later 
in junior high school.   Dad had a friend who was a  ham and also had a 
dark room for developing pictures.  Dad took me with him one day to take 
some black and white film over and his friend showed me ham radio.  He 
had a Hammarlund HQ 180 and a DX 100.  He also had the Gonset mobile 
twins.  He tuned to a spot on 10 meters and then took off in his car to 
drive around the block to let me hear him talking.  I was hooked.....

But, back to my uncles even earlier .... besides "playing" in the garage 
with the electronic stuff, they were both CBers (back when it wasnt a 
disgrace to be one and CBers were real gentlemen on the air and used 
call signs and obeyed the rules)...    That was probably when I actually 
became hooked.  I loved to listen to my uncles CB radios in their cars 
and in their homes....  ( I was only 8 years old)

Then, when I finally got my Novice license in high school, dad got his 
too (which was easy for him because he was a Sonarman First Class in the 
Navy) and he'd wake me up at one in the morning so we could both work a 
new state or make a contact or two when he got home from work....
Knightkit T-60 and an HRO receiver into a long copper wire....



Dave Maples wrote:

>All: My XYL has allowed me to continue enjoying the hobby for the past 18+
>years since we married.  She had some interest in getting a license, but
>then the awful interference issues in New Orleans during the 90s (I worked
>at a NASA facility down there for about 8.5 years in the 90s) put her
>completely off ham radio forever.  She'd have made a good ham, too.  She
>loves me and just asks that I focus more on being a husband than being a
>ham.  That seems to me to be the right balance as well.
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>My folks paid for a novice station for me in the 60s as well...and I guess
>they did so for the same reasons.  My did sure didn't know what the interest
>in electricity and all would come to, but I guess he figured much the same
>as the rest of you (he was a journalist in the 60s, and saw through his work
>as a newspaperman what drugs, etc., was doing to the country).  It wound up
>allowing me to get a BSEE in 1978, and I've played more or less happily in
>technology for the last 27 years...
>
>Remembering sure can be fun...
>
>Dave WB4FUR
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