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When I was an Eagle Scout, I worked as a
staff member at Boy Scout Camp from |
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1959 to 1961. One of the members,
Jimmy Boiles, from Duncan, OK was a ham |
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radio operator (K5OUX - I think). He brought his radio to camp
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all work was finished, he would fire it
up and talk with other hams around the |
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country while some of us listened. Although I did not pursue
the hobby at that |
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time, the thought of doing so
stayed with me. |
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In 1976, I the local Lafayette electronics store,
advertised ham radio training |
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classes provided by the Montgomery
County, MD ham club. I attended the classes and took |
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the examination required by the FCC for the Novice
license. After passing the exam and receiving my first callsign (WN3CZK)on
July 20, 1976, I
began operating using Morse code.
Shortly thereafter I went to the Washington, DC FCC office and
upgraded my license class to that of Technician and on February 11,
1977 my callsign became WB3CZK. I could
talk on some frequencies!
I continued honing my operating skills and returned to the study
books until I was able to return to the Washington, DC FCC office to take and pass the examination for the
General class license on April 29, 1977. Now I could talk or use Morse code
on HF to
communicate with hams around the world. Talk about exciting!
At this point, I was completely hooked, I studied and passed the
Advanced Class license test and received the new
license on March 31, 1978. On March 12, 1982 I received
a new callsign of KC3AJ.
Years passed as I enjoyed my Ham Radio hobby. My son,
Bernie (W3UR), who is also a ham, called one day to tell me he had
accomplished the ultimate ham goal - he obtained the Extra Class
license (the final frontier). He kidded me a bit about his having
the higher class license as I smiled and congratulated him for his
accomplishment, told him I was proud of
him and went on about my business suspecting that the Extra Class license would
be too difficult for me to obtain.
In January, 2000, while vacationing on St. Kitts and Nevis islands
in the Caribbean, I began studying for my Extra Class examination.
The day prior to taking the scheduled examination, I had emergency
eye surgery. Claudia (my wife) had to drive me to the examination
site as I could see little or nothing. In spite of the inability to
see with both eyes, 24 years after obtaining my first license, I
finally obtained the ultimate ham radio license.
Soon thereafter, I applied for and received on June 3, 2000 what is expected to be
my final US callsign
- N3ME.
On July 31, 2000 I retired for the second time and my wife and I moved to Bethany
Beach, DE.
From January 2003 until March, I secretly tutored my granddaughter,
Christa McClenny as she studied for her first ham license. On
March 25th she surprised her parents (W3UR and N3OSH), when she
received her first license - KB3JIU.
In 2005 we demolished the old house and during the construction of
the new one, we had the contractor pour a concrete pad for a tower.
The house was completed in September, 2006 and in December, with the
help of W3PP and KB3KYH, antennas were installed on the tower.
It is absolutely wonderful to again be able to make contacts via ham
radio. If you need a contact from the state of Delaware (6
meters through 80 meters), send me an
e-mail message
with a suggested schedule. It
will be my pleasure to help you obtain contact confirmation. |
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