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I review and approve every IAP membership application personally. People enter a lot of interesting things in the "bio" section, but one non-pen thing I notice more of than anything else is "ham radio."

So, just for fun let's see how well amateur radio is represented in the pen making world. Post your callsign and how long you've been licensed. I'll start.

I am WB2RUZ licensed since 1973 at age 14.
 
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A little off the wall, we (my family) had a good friend who was W9SDY. Is there a way to tell if this callsign is still active?? (It would have to be his family, wouldn't it?)

Thanks for any input.

I remember him, saying, W9
Sugar
Dog
yolk!!

like it was recent, not 1960!!
 
Not a HAM, but had a professor who played with HAM and also for a job, made Pipeline Pigs... One of my class mates pointed this out... he didn't seem to last long in the course though...
 
Less active than I probably should be. I do get out for Skywarn nets and the occasional public service net, but mostly I just listen.
 
Good Morning all, DE WX5NCO from Tulsa, OK Grid square is EM26, 10-10 is 74420, and you are 5 9 this morning, QRZ?

The reason I became a HAM was a program called eQSO. At the time, I had a few friends, who are HAM's, who would get on there and have a round table rag chew net. That program, at the time, would allow a SWL to talk IF and ONLY IF there were no RF links or repeaters of any kind in that room. They encouraged me to get my ticket so I could talk when there was a link or repeater in the 'room'. A few short weeks later I was known as KD5TUF. I later got involved in SKYWARN and changed to my vanity call of WX5NCO (I was the skywarn Net Control Operator for a few years).
 
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My wife and I got our lic's at the same time back in 94. We are
KE4RGL - me
KE4RGM - her

very inactive at the present.
 
WB5URY (first licensed as WN5URY) at age 13 in 1974.

Took my 20wpm in front of the FCC - boy did I sweat bullets that day!
 
Original Novice in 1962--Current is Extra, K9FT, since 1992. cq..cq..cq....
 
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First licensed as VE1AZZ in 73, then the air force transferred me to Ontario where I got the call sign VE3ASH. Haven't been active for several years as life got in the way.
 
GoodTurns said:
I like ham...does that count? Been eating it since 1965, call sign soooweeee.
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Now that there is funny, I don't care who you are!

I thought HAM Radio was a dinosaur from a by gone era. I guess we'll need these guys if aliens invade from outer space.
 
Please don't let this disrupt the roll call but this is interesting. I am curious...............

How often do ya'll talk on the radio, what about and to whom do you talk to?

Is this similar to the ole CB radios on steroids? I used to sit out in the apartment parking lot until the wee hours of the morning when "skip" was rolling but was generally just idle chatter.
 
George, back in the day it was interesting to talk with others all over the world on a daily basis. Many of my conversations were in morse code. But since the evolution of the computer and internet, cell phones etc. it has lost some of it's appeal especially for the younger generation. Most would not want to put in the effort it takes to get a license. It is easier than it used to be but still takes some effort.
 
Texatdurango said:
Please don't let this disrupt the roll call but this is interesting. I am curious...............

How often do ya'll talk on the radio, what about and to whom do you talk to?


I mainly contest with voice, morse code and RTTY. Have a regular group of guys (some ladies (XYL's) too) that I talk with every night. I am also involved in a maritime mobile net once per week. We pass messages during almost every emergency that comes along. On 5 watts of power and a 15 foot piece of bare copper wire I can "work the world". Very good thing to have in an emergency situation. It does not take much to shut off or overwhelm cell phones and landline communication, but my fellow hams can usually get through no matter what the situation.:)
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