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At 17 years old I took a class at a high school one day a week in the evening. We were told to bring in an old TV to tear apart to make the one tube xmitter. We would have to buy the receiver of sorts and the transmit Chrystal. While we were studying theory and working on learning soldering and theory. In the back ground was CW the letter was spoken and the following character was sent at 30 WPM. The voice "a" followed by dit dah at 30 WPM all the way through the alphabet over and over and over again. every night. Numbers and punctuation for a couple weeks after with alphabet. We were ask the last week if we were ready to pass the 5WPM code test. LOL we all looked around the room thinking yeh right. We all (19 of us) passed the 5WPM test. I then passed the 13 WPM test as did the rest. the instructors would NOT give the tech test only novice. The next year I got drafted and lost the 1 year novice license and interest. 1966 to 1968 in the Army As an avionics tech. I was dormant until 1995 and took the general test and became active again. I had sold my old faithful Howard receiver and gave away my transmitter.
Before the ham interest I started out with a Gonset CB then a Sonar "E" CB with KJI1400 call.
Remember S9 magazine? I had a portable call assigned to me also from them and a Fanon M?? 1 watt two ch portable.

<blockquote data-quote="Old Barney" data-source="post: 766101" data-attributes="member: 55617">At 17 years old I took a class at a high school one day a week in the evening. We were told to bring in an old TV to tear apart to make the one tube xmitter. We would have to buy the receiver of sorts and the transmit Chrystal. While we were studying theory and working on learning soldering and theory. In the back ground was CW the letter was spoken and the following character was sent at 30 WPM. The voice &quot;a&quot; followed by dit dah at 30 WPM all the way through the alphabet over and over and over again. every night. Numbers and punctuation for a couple weeks after with alphabet. We were ask the last week if we were ready to pass the 5WPM code test. LOL we all looked around the room thinking yeh right. We all (19 of us) passed the 5WPM test. I then passed the 13 WPM test as did the rest. the instructors would NOT give the tech test only novice. The next year I got drafted and lost the 1 year novice license and interest. 1966 to 1968 in the Army As an avionics tech. I was dormant&nbsp; until 1995 and took the general test and became active again. I had sold my old faithful Howard receiver and gave away my transmitter. &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Before the ham interest I started out with a Gonset CB then a Sonar &quot;E&quot; CB with KJI1400 call. &nbsp; &nbsp; Remember S9 magazine? I had a portable call assigned to me also from them and a Fanon M?? 1 watt two ch portable.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Old Barney, post: 766101, member: 55617"] At 17 years old I took a class at a high school one day a week in the evening. We were told to bring in an old TV to tear apart to make the one tube xmitter. We would have to buy the receiver of sorts and the transmit Chrystal. While we were studying theory and working on learning soldering and theory. In the back ground was CW the letter was spoken and the following character was sent at 30 WPM. The voice "a" followed by dit dah at 30 WPM all the way through the alphabet over and over and over again. every night. Numbers and punctuation for a couple weeks after with alphabet. We were ask the last week if we were ready to pass the 5WPM code test. LOL we all looked around the room thinking yeh right. We all (19 of us) passed the 5WPM test. I then passed the 13 WPM test as did the rest. the instructors would NOT give the tech test only novice. The next year I got drafted and lost the 1 year novice license and interest. 1966 to 1968 in the Army As an avionics tech. I was dormant until 1995 and took the general test and became active again. I had sold my old faithful Howard receiver and gave away my transmitter. Before the ham interest I started out with a Gonset CB then a Sonar "E" CB with KJI1400 call. Remember S9 magazine? I had a portable call assigned to me also from them and a Fanon M?? 1 watt two ch portable. [/QUOTE]

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