[QCWA] First encounter with ham radio

[Howard Cunningham]

 Hi

What was your first ham radio encounter?

In my case it was the guy next door to me, K5OSH, Russ Van Kirk.  I was in
the 3/4th grade, 1963-64, and he had converted his back deck into a radio
shack.  The entire end of the room was covered with neat stuff.  The thing
that I remember is the waveform monitor that wiggled when he talked.  The
other think that I remember was the way that he said his call sign on the
air...  Ocean Sierra Hon-naa-luuu-luuu, (dragging it out). We moved and he
moved, but we visited him later and that wall of gear had been replaced by a
single transceiver.

On Halloween he had a witch that would talk.. Of course at the time I
thought that was a cool trick and now I do the same thing on Halloween..

It then took me another 13 years or so to earn my first license.  It is sad,
I don't remember the call sign of name of the ham in college that gave me my
code test, but I remember the second ham that helped me along the way.  The
second ham was K5BIT (SK).  He encouraged me all though high school, but I
was more interested in band and girls...

WD5DBC
Chapter 91


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