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Steve - WB3HUZ
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« on: October 11, 2006, 06:59:20 PM »
Worked a real JN on AM this afternoon on 3880 kHZ, Brennen, KI4PRK, Leesburg, VA. Only 12 years old, got ticket in May and just upgraded to General in July. Was initially attracted to amateur radio by hearing CW on a receiver of a friend of the family.

Too bad I didn't have the recording equipment set up.

If you hear Brennen on, lend some words of encouragement. Not every day we get a JN that young into amateur radio, let alone AM.
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« Reply #1 on: October 11, 2006, 07:18:36 PM »
Hey!  WhatamI, chopped liver?
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Steve - WB3HUZ
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« Reply #2 on: October 11, 2006, 07:30:52 PM »
You're THE JN. This youngster was just A JN.
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« Reply #3 on: October 11, 2006, 08:54:19 PM »
Yeah I hope he sticks around.

You guys were SO influential when I was about that age, and yes, "I listened to you ALL the time !"

It was (is?) a magic that is hard to find anywhere else.

Will you QSL him?  Maybe if he has a card on the wall it'll remind him to look around.

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« Reply #4 on: October 12, 2006, 07:26:23 AM »
I worked this young lad about a month ago.  I wasn't sure how old he was since conditions were marginal the night we worked and barely got his name!.  I'm encouraged that a 12 year old, this day in age, somehow found his way not only into ham radio but AM!  I'll be looking for him in the future...


Brian - W8KHZ
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Currently running a big homebrew transmitter (pair of 250THs modulated by a pair of 810s) paired up with a National HRO-50.  I also run a BC-610-I / NC-2-40D combo which is a lot of fun too.

Catch you on 75M AM!
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« Reply #5 on: October 12, 2006, 12:13:05 PM »
AHHHH Yes,
How I remember the Akai reel-reel with the crossfield heads. GREAT sounding machine for record and playback!
Beat the crap out of my Roberts ree-reel. The freq response curve looked like an old country road.
I hope to hear the LITTLE JN one day.
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« Reply #6 on: October 13, 2006, 12:16:48 AM »
i heard the KI4 the other day when i was up in the Adirondacks, talking to AB2EZ. this was daytime,and he had quite a good signal. takes me back to 1968, 12 years old, and bootlegging Dad's DX60 with a Wollensak tape recorder mic "borrowed' from school. i was 12 and my audio was yelllowy!!!!  our 21st century JN had a good sounding signal and has act together. best of luck to him! 
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Steve - WB3HUZ
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« Reply #7 on: October 13, 2006, 04:20:34 PM »
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Will you QSL him?  Maybe if he has a card on the wall it'll remind him to look around.

U mean like these?
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