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W7AYN

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Robert Gates

Phoenix 85048-1207
United States, AZ

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Call data

Last update:2015-08-24 23:47:35
QTH:S. E. Mesa, AZ near Phoenix, AZ
Continent:NA
Views:223
Main prefix:K
Class:Extra Class
Federal state:AZ
US county:Maricopa
Latitude:33.6877818
Longitude:-111.9726563
Locator:DM43AH
DXCC Zone:291
ITU Zone:8
CQ Zone:5
ULS record:2548904
Issued:2003-09-18

QSL data

Last update:2013-07-07 12:49:37
eQSL QSL:no
Bureau QSL:YES
Direct QSL:YES
LoTW QSL:no

Biography

In my 8th year of school when I was 13 years old I began studying the written material and passed the exam for my Novice license in mid May of 1954 I can remember watching for the mailman each day after the school year was over. Finally in mid June the license arrived with the call sign of WN7WJF. I passed the exam for the Conditional General Class license in September of the same year and began using 20 Meter CW in the month of October 1954 operating as W7WJF on a frequency bands that was not available with the Novice license. By the time I became a novice, we were using an E F Johnson Viking II and the Hallicrafters S-76 receiver and I was able to work many stations all over the USA and many new countries.

I dropped out of ham radio in 1964 until 1976 when I took the General class exam again and became WB7NSM. A couple of years later I took and passed the Extra Class exam and 20 WPM CW test. Later I ask for and received the Call Sign NF7H which I kept until 2003 when I ask for the call sign my father held from 1931 until 1994 when he became a silent key. So today I have the call sign W7AYN.

73' & God Bless
Bob Gates

Equipment

I am now using an Icom 706 Mark II G with an SGC 239 auto tuner. I moved recently and have not yet figured out what to do about an antenna. Thinking now about a magnetic loop antenna, so perhaps I will build one and put it in my back yard!

  

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