Out of an interest in engineering, I was kind of adopted into amateur radio by a cadre of returning World War II veterans in the late 1950s. These guys had been radio operators in the armed forces and as returnees they took up amateur radio. I was the son of a local “country doctor” and this was a small town. Everyone was kind, interested, and giving. They took me into their meetings and classes, loaned me Morse code practice equipment, and got me started on getting licensed. The “amateur” didn’t mean that these guys didn’t know what they were doing—it just meant “not paid to do it.” (Read this history…)
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