Good Evening,
Today is the anniversary of D-Day. 18 years ago I started the Elecraft
CW Net to commemorate my uncle's parachute jump inland of the Normandy
beaches. His job was to hold a bridge and stop German tanks from
reaching the beach. Months later he straggled into Bastogne after the
Germans wiped out his platoon during the Battle of the Bulge.
My dad was a radioman in B17s during 1942 in the South Pacific. After
his tour as a DI at Cherry Point, North Carolina he went to radar school
in Logan, Utah. Then back into bombers. He was the radar/radioman in
B24s in the North Pacific during the last year of the war.
Dad's footlocker full of radio and radar manuals (some of them marked
classified) were my introduction to electronics. Those manuals and a
stack of ARC5 receivers. Then Popular Electronics, Radio Electronics,
and me taking apart broken TVs for parts. However, I fell to the dark
side and started using transistors to make flip flops and logic
circuits. The analog magic had left me as did those warm, glowing tubes.
Please join us on (or near):
14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday)
7047 kHz at 0000z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday)
73,
Kevin. KD5ONS
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