How I got started in Amateur Radio
Way back in in the early 1970s when I was a little kid, my grandma gave me an old transistor radio. She worked for the Katz Drugstore chain and I guess was able to get old stock at a pretty cheap price. So, I put batteries in it and would listen to it for hours.
It was one of those radios that when you took the back cover off to replace the batteries, you could see all the parts that made it tick. Of course, being four or five years old I had no idea what any of it did, but it sure looked cool! There were those things with colored bands on them (I thought they were bees at first!) and those things that looked kind of like water towers. As the radio would play, I would sometimes pop the cover off and look at all the part doing their thing. Granted, there was nothing to see, really, but it was still amazing to me.
Fast forward a few years to about 1976. For Christmas that year I got a pair of walkie talkies. They had a button on them so you could send Morse Code.
to be continued….