Any HAM radio operators on this forum?

[chomp_rock]

I was just wondering (being a HAM myself) if there were any others here.

[Felix/FFDS]

lapsed - ex-KP4EPH QRM de KP4CK (silent key) and KP4CL

Dad started as K4EPO in the early '30s, then became K4FKC before PR went to KP4....

Mom was first female HAM in PR as K4EZR.  Both were founding members of the PR Amateur Radio Club -and all the fun things that it entailed... You haven't live until you go to an antenna party.

As a kid, we moved to a house on top of a hill, mainly so the antennas could be a little higher... at one time they had three towers - one on the roof 50-foot, and two (100ft and 75 ft) on the sides of the house... plus assorted antennas draped from towers to available trees.

It was a great place for a 2m repeater "Frankenstein" so you can imagine it wasn't purchased at a store.

As a kid, I remember the weekend-long contests...

I stil have their QSL card collection - one of these days I might start cataloging them ...  Interesting reading..

[visitor]

YES!!

When I started flying RC you had to have
a lience to use the radios, in 1960, the
first RC radois hit the market and I
Let my HAM radio go by the way side!!!
Still do some RC though!! Sail Boats that is


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[Felix/FFDS]

In the pre-Internet days of AIM, IRC, e-mail, it was a challenge to talk to some places in the world.  Prized certificates were "Worked All Countries"  (try and do that and include Mongolia at a time when dedicated expeditions would be the only amateur radio operators) ...

Then there's always been the disaster communications support - Mom received a certificate from the Red Cross for her comm work during the 1948 Texas City Disaster - and she never left her desk in Puerto Rico....


'73!

[BFMF]

HAM Radio??? I'm a vegetarian

My uncle is really into that type of stuff and I've been able to talk on one of those radios once or twice, but never without a licensed operator

Does anyone here remember when you needed a license to use a CB radio? Did anyone here have a license for that?

[visitor]

YEA!

I had a CB ticket

KY5BBA!

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[Craig.]

i had a cb but didnt have a license :-/ naughty me:)