As you can see, the band allocations were different way back then. I had two crystals, 7.169 and 7.185 Mhz. The compact 15 watt crystal-controled tube transmitter kit seemed so modern to me at the time, and I used to wonder how anyone could have managed to communicate using the primative gear of thirty years ago!
Well, time goes on and I look back at this golden era with such nostalgia. And I wonder how the youngsters today will feel about their ham radio indoctrination thirty years from now.
I can only say that I look back on my logs with great pride. Had I not been making contacts and writing in my log, I would have had no record, and fewer memories, of those wonderful times of my youth.
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