sergio_101Question of the day - #AmateurRadio #HamRadio
How did you get into amateur radio? Was there a moment that hooked you?
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The first time I was hooked, I found a book at the library when I was 8 or 9. It was a spiral-bound book that walked the reader through the process of building a #CW transmitter and receiver.
I never got to build it, as it was hard for a kid to source all the parts, but I would love to find that book again and build the station.
Unfortunately, I can't even kinda remember the name of the book, but if i ever saw it again, I would totally recognize it.
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Jesse Alexander, WB2IFS/3@sergio_101 Hearing my own callsign in #CW on 40m for the first time 50 years ago. I was 15 years old. WN2IFS
yeah! were you on the novice band of 40m? I loved that time.. I used to hang out there when i progressed my license, just to halp shaky fists i heard get comfortable.
I need to pull my logs from the early 90s and see who my first #CW contacts on the novice band were.
@sergio_101 I started out on the novice band on 40m bcs my #heathkit #DX60B had crystals and I didn’t upgrade to the #vfo until later.
@sergio_101 yeah I was first on the air in the 1970s. Shortwave was hot back then. So many stations to explore! I used to use the Canadian navy numbers station for #cw practice.
@sergio_101 here's my origin story
How I got started hamradio
Jim "Ham on a Bike"@sergio_101 My ham radio journey began the day after Christmas 1956. While visiting my grandparents, a neighbor who was a TV/ Radio repairman (Mr. Vance C McCain / WA4IDE / SK) fired up his rig, called CQ a few times and “BEHOLD”; a voice came back sounding like Winston Churchill from England to Kentucky. USA. I've been hooked ever since.
Victoria (K8VSY) (she/her)I got in to #HamRadio by way of #NumberStations around 2009, or so, that sparked my curiosity in radio 🙂
B. Garfoot 
@sergio_101 I did a lot of organizing for bicycle events where we used radios for SAG support. Eventually I realized it was easier to just get my own license.
Scott VE3QBZ@sergio_101 for reasons unexplained I watched the Grimeton radio station Christmas message live broadcast on YouTube during the covid lockdown.. The majesty of that machine and the sound of the CW hooked me.