Amateur Radio Activities

• National net: SSB 14.282 MHz Mondays 1600Z (1500Z Daylight time)
• CW Net: 14052 kHz Mondays 1715Z
• West Coast: 7230 kHz 9AM, 7297.5 4PM, local time. Daily, except
  Sunday
• Florida net: 3952/7272 kHz Sundays 0830, local time.

Don Tyson #3495
WOQP

Ham Radio first licensed 1937. Have been active for 70 years including
the present. I frequently check into the FAA net on 14.282 MHZ on Monday
mornings, using an indoor antenna in this retirement facility. I have
numerous calls including OA4I Lima Peru. (1946-1950)
 

Sixty Years in Ham Radio

Tom McDonald (W1MRJ/4) was first licensed as a radio amateur in 1940.  Let's see that was before Pearl Harbor and for that matter one year before I was born (Ron Cowles).  A long time to be loyal to a hobby!  Tom how about one of your QSL cards for my collection?

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The first guy (Tom McDonald) never has a chance!

I was first licensed as W6SCO in October 1939, 61 years ago. (I was very young) :-)

In 1996, I got my call changed to an "old timers" call, W6JN (JohN). My QSL card is pretty plain though, with no pic.

Most of my ham activity is on 40 meters with the West Coast FAA Retirees net and lots of City of Torrance volunteer service on 2M for our Torrance Amateur Radio Association emergency network that has a base station in the Torrance Police Department.

Maybe we could have a contest on-line as to the "oldest" licensee, hamwise, that is. I'm sure several could beat me (Send me your story and we shall see who is the winner, Ron - AL7JN). 

73, John Kemper

Sounds Like the Second Guy (John Kemper) Was Outdone!

I was first licensed in 1933 with the call of W5DKX in Fayetteville, Arkansas when I was a Sophomore in High School. I have lost the license but I believe it was a class C License. I got my class A license in 1934 just after I graduated from High School. Since I joined the Navy a year later I have a number of licenses , marking several of the places I have lived in the intervening years (Navy & FAA).

The licenses that I have, where I lived at the time and when they were issued are listed below:
W5DKX Fayetteville, AR. Aug 22, 1934
K6OYM Honolulu, HI. June 25, 1940
W6OYM Long Beach, CA.  Mar 29, 1946
W7LXI Gila Bend, AZ. Jan 12, 1948
W5DKX Oklahoma City, OK. Sept. 5, 1950
W3DXI Kensington, MD. Sept. 27, 1955
KB3IH Gaithersburg, MD. Jan. 1, 1995 (Old Timers License)
KX3B Gaithersburg, MD. Aug 2, 1995 (Old Timers, Extra Class license)

Plus Second Class Commercial Radiotelegraph and Radiotelephone License issued in 1946 when I worked in the Fire Alarm Bureau of the Long Beach, California Fire Department while waiting for a CAA job after WWII.

I am not active at this time since I have lived in places for the past 18 years where outside antennas were prohibited.  Most of my active amateur radio time was spent on 40M CW.

I feel sure that you will find some who has been licensed longer than I have. Good luck in your efforts. (This one will be tough to beat! Let's hear from the rest of you Old Timers. - Ron)

73 Ken Jenkins

Maybe We Need A Tie Breaker!
or Perhaps a recount?

I was licensed on April 29th, 1933 with the call of W6ISO in Douglas, Arizona. I lost the call when they assigned all the six calls to California. They placed Arizona in seven land. For awhile I had the calls WA7JII and WA5TZB. I lost the WA7JII call when they set the limit of one call per person. I now have WA5TZB. (Now we are going to have to find out what month Ken got his license -- nothing like a close contest! - Ron)

John B. Kendrick

Ray Anderson W7ZS

Ray (now a Silent Key) got his first amateur radio license (W9GXY) in 1931 when he was 16 years old and living on a farm in North Dakota. Since then he has held W9ITI (1932), W6GXE (1933), W7EYI (1935), K7EYI (1939), KL7BH (1946), W3OLM (1948), W3ONR (1949), TF2WDV (1958), WA6OKI (1959), K6CD (1965), and finally W7ZS in 1971. (Until his passing in January, Ray was certainly the clear winner of the contest! - Ron)

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