Any HAM's here?

[Jake McCracken]

Yep. KC3BDF here. Cant wait for Field Day!

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[Daveco]

KV4VE here. Started out as N4YOY in the late 80's as a Tech with 5 wpm code privileges and then upgraded to General when they lowered the code requirements, but I ended up letting my ticket expire. A few years back, my Son and I got interested again and he stopped at General as call N4KCW and I had to one-up him and studied up and passed the Extra class test too and was given my current call. I'm not very active right now but have recently got my Yaesu FT4D set back up in my "radio closet". I have always been drawn to HF, and my favorite mode is CW. I need to start practicing my code again now that y'all have got me started thinking about it....... ☺
(My Dad was a Ham too- he had an Advanced ticket when he passed away back in 1979. His call was WA4FMZ)

[MaryB]

I do have a set of paddles but it is easier to fire up the computer to send CW now. I can type it and hit send. My carpal tunnel loves me for it too!

[MaryB]

Not a Ham myself but I grew up around radio all my life. My dad was a life long ham radio operator getting his license in the 1930's. His call was first W9FNN and that was changed to W0FNN and later after getting a upgrade he changed it to K0AW.He passed at the age of 99 years.......A photo of him in his favorite place

That callsign is really familiar... like I may have worked him multiple times when I was a novice in 1974/75...

[TCFAN]

That callsign is really familiar... like I may have worked him multiple times when I was a novice in 1974/75...

If you did I would sure like to know.......

[Blanket]

KC0RVR here

[Lead pot]

I will dig out my old log book and see if I have his call down. I used to work several zero's one mostly was W0BCJ Clark out of Sabula IA and Jack K9KUP out of Savanna IL. also Vern K9VRL from Sterling IL that got my code speed up to a solid 35 WPM. One night he was asking a bunch of questions using a keyboard on 15 mtrs and when that exchange ended he said you just answered my 50 wpm questions.
I spent most of my time on 160 mtrs and 15 mtrs using a TCK-4 decommissioned Navy Xmtr. CW and working the aurora borealis 2 and .432 trying to get all 48 States. But been inactive since the early 90's. I have a guy coming to take down my 130' freestanding tower I used for my 160 mtr vertical antenna that also held my 160 rombic I worked a ZL on QRP with.
all this talk of HAM stuff I might change my mind again taking the tower down

[Soundguy]

Ke4rrd here, have a few assorted ICOM mobiles, yaesu hand helds, plus an odd old johnson unit. Mostly ground plane and dipoles. Do a little shortwave listening too.

73's

[MaryB]

If you did I would sure like to know.......

Those logs were lost to a fire... but I bet I did... if he worked 40 meters very much I would have ran into him I bet.

[smoked turkey]

TCFAN Good evening Terry (I am thinking that is your handle), we have talked before about the good old days in ham radio. Your dad, Clyde, and I spent some noon hours just talking radio as my work was only a block away from Reed Radio, and I spent some of my noon hours as well as some of my money there through the years. It was good to see the excellent photo of him. It brought back many good memories. Ham radio is a great hobby and enjoyed it for a very long time. I was on 40 meters CW back in my novice days and graduated to 20 meters with an old Johnson Ranger or a Heathkit Apache TX-1 until I came on an SB-10 SSB generator. I used to really like doing DXing on 20 CW as well. Again, thanks for the memories.
73 from WA0ATU-Stan.

[TCFAN]

Those logs were lost to a fire... but I bet I did... if he worked 40 meters very much I would have ran into him I bet.

Yes he worked 40 meters alot as well as 20 meters. CW was what he liked the most and he was very good at it.I found all of his log books going back to the 1930's when we moved everything out of his house. I don't know what happened to them. Alot of stuff was thrown away in a short period of time.

[TCFAN]

TCFAN Good evening Terry (I am thinking that is your handle), we have talked before about the good old days in ham radio. Your dad, Clyde, and I spent some noon hours just talking radio as my work was only a block away from Reed Radio, and I spent some of my noon hours as well as some of my money there through the years. It was good to see the excellent photo of him. It brought back many good memories. Ham radio is a great hobby and enjoyed it for a very long time. I was on 40 meters CW back in my novice days and graduated to 20 meters with an old Johnson Ranger or a Heathkit Apache TX-1 until I came on an SB-10 SSB generator. I used to really like doing DXing on 20 CW as well. Again, thanks for the memories.
73 from WA0ATU-Stan.

Hi Stan. Yes I remember you saying that you knew my dad and used to go to Reed Radio to talk to him.I never was interested in Ham radio at all. I liked to shoot and cast boolits to much to do any thing else........Terry

[kfarm]

WB5VOF novice in 73 advanced in 80. Always admired guys with quarter century awards, been 44 years where has time gone. 73's

[Echo]

Ex-W5HZM here - was fairly active until I got assigned as a communicator into the 'Looking Glass' ABNCP project. Only operational job I had in USAF, but using radio all time kinda killed my enthusiasm. But I had built my own Boots for my SSB rig - pair of 811's in GG, w/2,000 volts on plates. Not a full gallon, but peaked at 800. Had to put a 2D21 hooked up as a diode into the center tap of the filament xfmr for bias...

[AllanD]

N2TBI here but don't get fooled by my /W2 call I live in Pennsylvania since 1995.

I have'nt done much of anything for the last several years. I have to wire a radio into my "new" truck.

And I need to remount my antennae after having had my roof redone.
Other than 2M in my vehicle, I've always been mostly a 10M operator
But I've been known to get up on 17M.

[Lead pot]

echo nothing wrong with 811's 813's and 500z's For me the fun was building and experimenting with underground antennas, even loaded a well casing LOL.
My shack in the winter never needed heat with the foot warmers running and the violet rectifier tubes buzzing I still have a horned Eimac T 150 tube on the shelf I build a amp with, that tube was capable of about 3000 watts and getting into all phones and TV in the areas LOL.
Man I have to get the rigs back out of the boxes and throw a wire up in the trees talking about this again. AR

[one-eyed fat man]

WD4SCZ, the radios I use vary a bit, but NONE of them are computer driven or made in Japan. It's either straight key CW or AM phone.

[farmerjim]

one-eyed fat man I remember those. All my HF is Heathkit.

[Echo]

My original rig was a Knight All-band RX and a - fooie - I can't remember - HA! ART-13 w/813 final. Ended with a Hammarlund HX-50 with the aforementioned boots and a Drake 2B Rx...

[Baja_Traveler]

KI6IWX here - been off the airwaves for quite a few years now, but I still have the Yaesu FT-857 in the truck. Took off the screwdriver antenna some years ago in order to mount kayak racks, so now limited to 2 meter if I were to key up again. I also have a full NVIS system for emergency communications from when I was doing that way back in the day.
In fact, I was just dusting off the Icom IC-91 handheld last night contemplating buying a new battery for it, since the old one died from lack of use. Used to have fun with that Icom playing with D-Star and talking to a guy in Melbourne Australia on 2 meter...