Re: QRP & Novice Rig Round Up - It's a Hoot!
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Bob Nelson
Wish I still had my Novice rig. it was a 6V6 xtal oscillator built on two strips of 1x2 wood, from an idea in an issue of CQ magazine of about 1951 or 1952 vintage, IIRC. But I built it about 1956 - when I was a bona fide Novice. The receiver was a Heathkit AR-3 I built in the Fall that year, after working in an auto-wrecking yard all summer to raise the cash. I got 90 cents an hour, and my father took half for "room and board". I'll never forget the first time I heard my own call sign coming back to me pursuant to a CQ. I was KN6ZGQ at that time. (My present call is a "used" one I asked to be assigned when the original OM passed away.) Then the first transistors became available the next year. I got one, a CK722 from Raytheon, for $2.40, with a refund of $1.40 because the price had dropped while my money was in the mail. That transistor was so fascinating that I became a builder more than an operator, and have always been that way ever since. Electronics became my lifetime profession. Even got an advanced degree in EE, and a medal while I was in the military back around 1967 for "solving" a "electronic intelligence" problem all branches of the military had been spending MILLIONS of dollars on every year -- a problem most any experienced radio ham could have handled same as I did. So I have a whole lot I owe to our "hobby" - perhaps the most useful, beneficial and valuable hobby anyone could ever engage in. May the Novice Roundup last forever ! 73 - Bob, K6KL
On Monday, February 20, 2017 12:16 PM, "Bry Carling af4k@... [4sqrp]" <4sqrp@...> wrote: Thanks Bobby! jump in and join the fun, QRP friends.
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