At 1800 UTC on New Year's Day a friend of mine for over 50 years made a QSO from East TN to coastal northern ca.
We played with radios back in the 60's and 7o's. When we got older he continued in radio, and became a Ham operator, and I went into the service for the next 20 year's. When I would visit my home, we would talk about how cool it would be if I got my Ham licence, and we could maybe keep in touch. I got my ticket in 2013, but didn't have an HF radio until, 2 weeks ago.
It was a rough QSO on daytime 20 meters, but it lasted 13 minutes. It was also my,1st contact of 2019. It's just so awesome to me, that we as Ham Radio Operators can do this. That was probably the biggest thing that has ever happened to me on the radio. 1 more thing to check off my bucket list.
Loving Ham Radio.
73
We played with radios back in the 60's and 7o's. When we got older he continued in radio, and became a Ham operator, and I went into the service for the next 20 year's. When I would visit my home, we would talk about how cool it would be if I got my Ham licence, and we could maybe keep in touch. I got my ticket in 2013, but didn't have an HF radio until, 2 weeks ago.
It was a rough QSO on daytime 20 meters, but it lasted 13 minutes. It was also my,1st contact of 2019. It's just so awesome to me, that we as Ham Radio Operators can do this. That was probably the biggest thing that has ever happened to me on the radio. 1 more thing to check off my bucket list.
Loving Ham Radio.
73