This page is dedicated to Ham Radio and all of its fun !
When I was about 10 years old, I was taking apart radios and putting them back to gether, I would experiment
and remove wire from coils, I accidently removed enough wire on a oscillator coil to move the frequency up to
The 80 meter Ham Band. I could hear all these guys talking and it intrigued me. I went to the library and got
books to study and figured out how to build transmitters and receivers. I finally got a transmitter built and on the
air but did not know that I needed a license to do it. So after a few days of operating with a fake call sign, two
guys in suits showed up at the door and went in to talk to my Mom and Dad. Little did I know what was going
to happen. They finally left with me promising not to operate, and to learn the morse code and take a written
test on theory and rules and regulations. This test back then required hand writing the answers , no multiple
choices. Well I passed and become WN5ARI, the N designating that I was a Novice class radio operator
operator allowing me to communicate on morse code which I really enjoyed. Well, here it is, 55 years later and
my call sign now is KA7W.
The above picture is of a very nice all Collins Radio Equipment Ham Station. I do not know who it belongs
to, but I enjoy the picture !
This station belongs to a friend of mine, Ken in Oregon, K7ZUM and we call him Zummie. He is building
a K2 Radio Transceiver in the picture, It is a kit.
This is a snap shot of my computer screen while in contact with Mike AA0N of Rapid City Iowa. We were on 40 meters
and finished up around 3:30 in the morning. This is a digital mode called MT63. The computer is hooked to the radio and
we talk back and forth using the key board, many interesting ways of talking between friends in Ham Radio.
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