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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- One of the series of films made by Dave Bell, W6AQ, for the ARRL. This one comes from approximately 1970. It is interesting to see how many things have changed in ham radio since then - but some things remain.
I am the ham in the movie with the long side burns 7 minutes and 54 seconds into the show. I have now been a ham for 50 years and have been active as WA6MNM in Los Angeles and now K7UI from Carson City Nevada. This hobby was the Original Social Media. Charlene, WB6FFE, and John, WA6BOB, and I used to cruise Hollywood Blvd in the Ford Econoline Van while listening to John's bootleg 250 watt AM transmitter operating on 1230 KHz from his house about 2 blocks away playing Innagoddadavida on the Wollensak reel-to-reel! I am 66 years old now and always reminiscing about how fun growing up was in the sixties. We all worked the K6MYK, Mt. Lee amplitude modulation repeater with our HeathKit Lunch Box radios after school. We all helped each other with our math homework over the radio waves because we lived 20 miles apart. Bob's Big Boy Hamburgers was the hangout and you were either a surfer or a hippie. Great memories. 73, Dave
That's how I got started! I was 12 when I passed the Novice test in 1959. It wasn't long before I became proficient enough for my General. In those days Ham Radio was fun...I could down to the local Army/Navy store for parts...start my own antenna farm...and try for any DX with low power. Today things have changed.
That was fun to see. Wow, how things change but in a way are still the same. Thanks for posting.
This brought back fond memories of ham radio in the late 60s and early 70s! Forty years later I am still enjoying it as much as I did then.
Altho I was in Radio in 1960, I did not get my ham ticket until 1972. and have been active ever since. this video brought back tons of memories of the same things I was involved in back in the early 70's I'm glad to see the youth of today still getting involved . be it a digital world now. but non the less its Amateur radio. "The world at your finger tips!" seek it out, 73 gud dx de Ellis WA1RKS
I recently watched the movie in some other place I think... but I found it fascinating. Pretty much watching it with the same pleasure as I enjoy watching the sailing movies from the 60's and 70's. I just recently got my license... but I loved the hobby since I was about seven or eight yo. I think this kind of movies is the reason why I love much more the old analog equipment rather than the new modern digital stuff. Very nice movie... I enjoy it a lot. Pretty much a time travel. Same feeling I have when I sail my 1960 sailboat with no modern equipment aboard )) Great feeling. 73 to all DE YO6DXE
The SDTV restoration is pretty good, but you can restore the 16mm print to HDTV resolution for not much more expense.
Superb video footage 10/10
I remember passing my 5wpm and 13 wpm in 1998 and 1999 I've been a ham since January 21st 1997 when I was a freshman in highschool I used to be KB9PJS from 1997 until 2002 when I upgraded to extra class and changed my call to AB9EW
fine video , thanks oms 73 de SV2CLJ
Did he say West Valley Amateur Radio Club? CA or AZ?
CA
Now days old hams are not very welcoming of new ham radio operators and rude in Australia