[Elecraft] OT: 50 years

[Phil Kane]

On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:54:16 -0800, Bob W7AVK wrote:

>I too was an early 1950s young teen ager with a new WN7VZX call
>not not long after the novice license was created.  In those days
>the FCC was still going through the available W7 three letter
>combinations in order the first time since starting in the late
>1920s. A few years later they went back and reissued the old
>calls that had been dropped and my dad received WN7AVK.   Which I
>asked for and received after his passing.  :-)

  I too received my first call (this one) in 1952 while I was in
  high school.  My buddies got the last of the W2s and I had to
  settle for one from the first batch of the K2s.  Boy, was I
  steamed !!

  But I got even with the FCC....I worked for them for 30 years,
  retiring 11+ years ago. Neither they nor I emerged the same
  from that experience <g> !!

  Vic -- congrats on getting to 50 years.  It didn't happen by
  accident.

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   73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
   Elecraft K2/100   s/n 5402