[QCWA] What was your first station?

[geoffrey allsup]

January 1964 WN1BFI - Johnson Valiant 2 (built over Christmas 1963 vacation - removed 2 of the 3 6146 finals ) & Hammarlund HQ180A.  Antenna was roughly a 100 ft doublet with 300 ohm transmitting twinlead and knife switch for T/R.  

Took Novice test on November 22, 1963 - day of JFK assasination.  Walt, W1EKI, in Pawtucket, RI administered the test.  My dad bought HQ180A the next day at Tufts Radio on the north side of Boston.

geoff - W1OH


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Geoff Allsup, W1OH       gallsup at whoi.edu  or  w1oh at whoi.edu
Senior Engineer                             Upper Ocean Processes Group
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution      Woods Hole, MA, USA
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> On Sep 1, 2016, at 21:58, Art (K5FNQ) <k5fnq at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> 
> 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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