[QCWA] What was your first station?

[Art (K5FNQ)]

1960 - Johnson Challenger transmitter & Hallicrafters S-107 receiver 
with a flat top doublet strung between two tall pine trees with the coax 
coming into the shack to a double throw blade switch to switch between 
transmit and receive.

I imagine my SWR (of course no meter for that) was 10:1 or something 
like that.

But it did radiate - on the other hand all of the contacts in my novice 
log were 599 since if the station was not 599 there was no way for the 
S-107 to hear them.

Art K5FNQ (KN5FNQ)


On 9/1/2016 10:29, Jeffrey D Angus wrote:
> As a Novice, Hammarlund HQ-110, Heathkit DX-20 and a 4BTV trapped
> vertical.
> 1968 Torrance, CA. WN6FWI.
>

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