[Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

[Tony Estep]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 8:53 PM Fred Jensen <k6dgw at foothill.net> wrote:

> You should have been a teen in the run-up to Cycle 19...

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Ain't that the truth. I had a homebrew Tx and a Hallicrafters SX-96 in 1957
and 1958 as a novice (KN0LTB). I had a pretty good antenna and 15 meters
was open nearly all the time. Signals were booming in from everywhere on
earth. I was one of a few novices who worked DXCC during the 1-year
allowable Novice term. Bill, KN4RID, now W4ZV, was the first. Great fun.
Short-wave radio was high tech in those days and guys all over the world
were eager to get in on the excitement. I assumed it was always going to be
like that.

Tony KT0NY