[QCWA] What was your first station?

[VE3JX]

My, my!  What a lovely discussion!

Before I got my licence, I used a WW2 #19 set for receiving W1AW, etc.

When I got my ticket in 1967 as VE3BRT, I had a Heathkit DX-35/VF-1 vfo, and 
a NC-140 National GC receiver, then an HR-10 ham-bands only Heathkit 
receiver.

I was off the air after I moved away from home.  After marriage and a first 
child, I got back into it around 1975 as VE3EIH.  (Ugh! What a cw call!)  I 
then had a Viking Ranger transmitter and the HR-10 receiver.

A few years later - 1977 or 78, I think - I bought a Yaesu FT-301.  Great 
receiving improvement!

When I was first licenced, I loved working the novice stations from the US.

Cheers,

Dave Hayes VE3JX



-----Original Message----- 
From: Mark Horowitz
Sent: Friday, September 2, 2016 10:50 AM
To: geoffrey allsup
Cc: qcwa at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [QCWA] What was your first station?

My first station
I was sharing my fathers equipment.  I had a Collins 32V3 and   Collins 75A4 
I few years latter I was using a Kenwood TS 520. What a treat
73
Mark K2AU.  Ex WA2YMX

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> On Sep 2, 2016, at 8:33 AM, geoffrey allsup <gallsup at whoi.edu> wrote:
>
> 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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>
>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> -- 
>> K5FNQ - Art Mouton k5fnq(at)lusfiber.net (or (at)arrl.net) ARRL, QCWA, CW 
>> OPS, Louisiana Contest Club, DXCC Honor Roll (Mixed & CW), Digital/RTTY 
>> DXCC, 5BDXCC, DXCC 10, 12, 15, 17, 20, 30, 40, 80 Meters
>>
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