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| Biography I was always interested in electronics. My parents had a Grundig console radio with shortwave bands which I listened to when we lived in France in the 1950s. I had a crystal radio and used to take my dad's AM radio apart to see what was inside. I signed up for electronics class in High School. Two of the teachers had their amateur radio licenses and my high school also had a radio club station.This is when I got bitten by the ham radio bug. The sponsors of our radio club provided Morse Code classes and I was fortunate to be learning the theory in my school classes with the opportunity to build power supplies, radios, and fix televisions from a local motel. Finally in 1966 I was rady to go to the Fedreral building and take my novice test. I passed both the written and code tests and received my license about 5 weeks later in the mail, WN7FTW. Getting on the air was even more fun. I built a Heathkit HR10 receiver and the Heathkit DX60A crystal controlled transmitter. My dad helped me put a 40 meter dipole on the roof and was on the air a few weeks later. In those days with the crystal controlled transmitters operating split was the only option. I still remember my first CW contact. Equipment My main station is an ICOM 7300. Antennas A4S Yagi, 6BTV vertical, OCF wire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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