Ham Radio
To
tell you the WA4PGM story I'll start off by telling you about my Elmers. I became interested in Amateur Radio back in 1976 at
the age of 16, that's when the CB Boom was starting and my brother
(now N0BDS) and I was called the "G-Man" and I the "Cowboy" My first Elmer was
WA4QQI, Bill Hannah(SK) who I met one evening by invite to
visit his shack. We sat down and Bill demonstrated by making
contacts around the world and I was astounded with all of the
activity.
Lucky for me the local club SARA was forming a Novice training class and Bill
offered us an application, I quickly submitted the app and was
eager to learn more. Meanwhile during one of the classes I found out that a high
school classmate was a ham. That turned out to be
WN4AZY, Dennis Hevener now famed for
LOGic logging
software.
Dennis and I have become good friends over the years, he helped install my first antenna, hooked up the rig, and
provided a dry towel for
my first contact. :)
Calls held or used: 6Y6Y, K5NA, K9SD, KA0GGI, K0RAY, PJ2T, PJ4E, TI5N, VP5X, VP9I, W0DCW, and W4MYA.