[GreenKeys] Re: Survey

[GARY WEBB]

When I was several years younger, my dad and I would build projects from magazines
like Popular Mechanics and others.  Electric motors, crystal radio, and anything that
would fly.  (He was in the Army Air Corps during WWII).    Anyway, later the Navy
sent this West Virginia ridge runner to the Naval Communications Training Center in Pensacola, Fl.  I learned the "Code", radio circuits, and rf propagation theory.  Loved
Guam for the 18 months I was there listening to "traffic of interest".  On to Panama for
another 18 months doing the same.   Both stations had lots of R390A receivers and
lots of RTTY equipment.  Just about every shift I used a KSR 28.   A lot of our
TTY circuits were encrypted.   After the Navy fun, I got my ham license.  Since I
was pretty proficient with the code, I went straight for the General. N9DHQ.  Upgraded 
to Extra NI9V a while later. Presently own one all Motorola R390A that works fine,  the same for the KSR 28.   No transmitter other than QRP homebrew units that I have built.   Right now, I'm between 
antennas.  Big thunder storm a couple of months back did my last one in.  When it 
broke one end of the wire was blown on to the hi voltage line just north of my back yard and POPPED the fuse.  My neighbors were without power for a while.   Nobody
complained, but I don't want that to happen again.
Tomorrow begins my 36th year as a Biomedical Equipment Technician.  Still building,
repairing, calibrating, and messing around with electronic and mechanical equipment mostly of the medical variety.
 There's no doubt I can thank my dad for my career because he found time to build (play) with me.  With four other sons and a daughter it couldn't have been easy.  
 
Gary Webb NI9V, CBET III, Clinical Engineering Specialist.
Father of four, grandfather of five.
 
 
 
       

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