[Elecraft] OT: 50 years

[Bob W7AVK]

Morning Ron and Group - 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.  :-)

Received a couple years ago a very nice wall hanging from the ARRL 
saying I have been a LIFE MEMBER for 50 years.  In those days life 
member ship was calculated as 20 times a single year dues.  Remember it 
cost me $120.  A very big sum when receivers like the SX-71 were selling 
for $250.

73  Bob  W7AVK
K2 s/n 1414


Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:

>Yes, congratulations Vic!
>
>That happened to me just a couple of years ago (it's amazing now many of us
>became Hams during the great sunspot cycle of the 1950s). My reaction was
>"already?" Suddenly I WAS one of those O.T.s I had always known on the
>bands. It might take a little adjustment. Like the guy who was shaving one
>morning at the bathroom sink and, as he scraped the lather off of his face
>suddenly looked at his reflection in the mirror with great surprise and
>exclaimed, "DAD!! What are YOU doing here?". 
>
>Ron AC7AC
>
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