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Uploaded by silentshep on May 18, 2009
Jean Shepherd WOR Radio Ham Radio Story Part 2 1-7-6
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an interesting story but I couldn't sit through the lot for all the desk thumping and paper shuffling.
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@5CX1500 Similar story: 1968, tenth grade, I'm a Novice ham. My friend's father picks me up before dawn and takes us on a four-hour drive to the Federal Building in Buffalo, NY. We get there and a guy in a white shirt and skinny tie is setting up a paper tape code machine. I felt like I was in the presence of God himself, with the power to chew up and spit out wannabe ham operators. He turned out to be a nice guy, though. My friend and I both got the Advanced ticket that day.
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@5CX1500 641 Washington Street to meet the 'God of Radio', Inspector Finkelstein. He was a kind man to those serious. My hearing is bad and can't copy CW in head. I ran off both sides into margins. "Electrostatic Electromagnetic interference QRM QRN QTZ". He marked up paper 'you pass'. QTZ de WB2SGT
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I can feel for him. I had a ARRL Amateur Radio Relay League handbook swatted from my hands in study hall by my English teacher. I was learning vacuum tube theory when I should have been learning to spell and speak English.
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Oh that was the way it was! I was one of three from my high school who went down to the Federal Building in 1969 and I miraculously passed the General and Advanced exams at the same time and yet was close to failing Algebra 2! If you really, really get into it, ham radio is a disease and it is PROGRESSIVE! Just ask my wife......!
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Ck 73 as novice. An extra was 'god'. Now a ten year old makes extra! Shep was king. Dayton rules.
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I got my ticket in 1988, the same year I first saw A Christmas Story. I was about 30 at the time and related to Shep's movie from my childhood then found out he was an old ham. I enjoy his word smith style of talking, his humor and can relate to the man in many ways. This was fun to listen to... Thanks for posting it
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This is wonderful. Shep was great. You bring back childhood memories that make America great.
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