The equipment in the picture include two (2) tube type Hallicrafters RX's

from the 1950's era when I was first exposed to Ham Radio, I was hooked.

Studying from 33.3 LP record collection of Code which I carried  home

from our school in the Adirondack Mtn's of Northern NYS. I learned the code

while lying on the floor in front of the record player patiently listening for each

letter to be sent dreamed of getting on the air and doing this for real. In 1957

I took the Novice class license while sitting at my kitchen table. The only way

You could be tested then for Novice Priviledges.My first Radio was an NC125

and a Harvey Wells Bandmaster Deluxe I couldn't use the VFO untill another

year passed when I went before an FCC examiner in Syracuse some 70

miles away. I waited for the 2 weeks to go by to find out that I had passed

the exam and I could drop the (N) from my call and plug the VFO in and

Plug in the D104 with a home-made wooden stand. I enlisted in the U.S.

Navy in 1959 and went aboard a minesweeper out of Charleston S.C.

I already knew the code and the old Collins Receivers were really built

well and very stable there were 4 of them along with a rack mounted 500

watt Xmtr into verticle antennas on the sides of the ship. I also went to

TTY repair school in Norfolk Va. and became a repairman for a division

of 4 ships in the minefleet on the model 28 TTY Keyboard, Printer, Typing

Reperferator, and TD which sent the tapes. NERK de NSS could be heard

from Washington sending bulletins for all Naval Ships at Sea. Those 4 years

were glory days.

I was seperated on Nov 3,1963 and discharged Nov 3 1965. as an RM-2

as far as I could go in a 4 year hitch at the time.

The rest of my carrer was spent with the same Company for the next 37

years, starting with Western Electric and ending in the Fiber Optic industry

with Lucent Technologies. I have been retired for the past 8 years, and I'm

currently living my future here in Atlanta Ga.

Mel!

W2QJS