Egad, another 'Dino' Kurt!!! "Common knowledge" says that we O.T.s don't mess with state-of-the-art stuff like Elecraft makes. So much for "common knowledge"! Near the peak of that huge 1950's sunspot cycle I used to drive 10 miles between college and my home in my '47 Studebaker Champion with an 8-foot whip on the rear fender. I ran a Lysco mobile rig, crystal controlled on one frequency on 10 meters. It made about 3 watts output AM: equal to about 1 watt SSB. While driving home from classes, I worked some Argentinean Hams from Southern California almost every afternoon for weeks with great reports both ways over a 6,000 statue mile path. The younger Elecraft fans today should be allowed at least one of those mega-sunspot-cycles in their lifetimes. I'd sure enjoy another one myself ;-) Ron AC7AC
-----Original Message----- From: Kurt Cramer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 9:52 AM To: Ron D'Eau Claire; [email protected] Subject: RE: [Elecraft] Farnsworth Method Ron & All, I too was a novice in the early '50s. In fact I received the ticket in late December '51. What a Christmas present! At about that same time I finished the first semester of my freshman year in high school. I was taking a music class. The teacher gave me a good grade and then suggested that I change to a shop class next semester. I still can't dance, or send/receive CW very well. I did operate quite a lot and got the General ticket by the next Summer. It took two trys. The first I had some strings of characters in the lower 60s, but none of 65! I'm sure you will tell me I just didn't stick to it long enough. This may have happened because my father was licensed and there was the 75A2 receiver Harvey-Wells AM transmitter on ten meters during one of the best sun spot cycles of all time. Kurt _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
