[Elecraft] OT: Happy 60th Anniversary Novice License

Kurt Cramer w7qhd at msn.com
Fri Jul 1 11:50:58 EDT 2011


WOW!!! You reminded me that next December I'll have been an Amateur for 60 years. Happy days when I was WN7QHD working eleven meters CW.
73 Kurt

> From: mash4077 at mailsent.net
> To: Elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 05:57:21 -0700
> Subject: [Elecraft] OT: Happy 60th Anniversary Novice License
> 
> Hi All:
> 
> Sorry for being off topic but today is a special day in ham radio
> history. Today is the 60th anniversary of the novice license.
> This is the license most of us who were licensed before 1991
> started off with. Starting in 2000, no more new licenses were
> issued; though holders could renew. July 1, 1951 is when its
> started.  That was a Sunday.  The next day was when the first
> novice exams were given, at FCC offices.  It took about 3 weeks
> for those licenses to arrive.  At first the Novice sub-band on
> 80M didn't have too many people on it.  If you are interested in
> reading more please read my column on Novice history in QCWA
> Journal or to be part of the history share your novice story or
> post your picture on the Novice Historical Society's website,
> www.novicehistory.org.  We are in the process of bringing our 3rd
> generation website with 40 new/revised  stories and photos on
> line.
> 
> 73, Cliff, AC6C
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