[Heathkit] My First Station

[Ken Miller K6CTW]

In 1967 I was very lucky that I had a great Elmer (K2QKV now SK) who helped me figure out, and then 
fix a broken DX-60 that became my first transmitter.  Receiver was a used Drake 2-B which had taken 
me a year of my paper route and other odd jobs to buy.  Antenna was a dipole.  It was great fun!  
My dad even started to get into it and we built and put up a 2 element quad for 15 meters!  My first QSO on 
that was with Mexico and it was super exciting.  I got my general right after that and had a blast
till an ice storm turned the quad and its mast into useless bent metal.

Since those heady days, I have now restored both a DX-60 and a Drake 2-B and they are a great
station that's still in use on traffic nets and especially for SKN.  However, I now have a homebrew 
DDS VFO instead of the Hallicrafters HA-5 and full QSK is provided by a B&W 381C instead of my homebrew 
wonder from the 1967 handbook.

What great memories and what a great hobby still.

73 - Ken Miller, K6CTW