WNØZAQ - WØZAQ - WØSH - W4GAL - KP4MM - VK6GAL From 1953 to the present
69+ Years "On The Air"
1953 - The receipt for crystal set
parts... my start in radio. I was 11.
My first receiver: a 1935 National SW-3 "Thrill Box"
It was given to me by my first elmer, WØSVD in the fall of
1953
1954 - Duane and his students. Arrow pointing at me,
dark frame glasses, lower left. I was 12, Duane was 34.
WNØZAQ - January 1955 - I was 13
WØZAQ - 1956
WØZAQ - 1957
WØZAQ - 1958
WØZAQ - 1959
WØZAQ - 1960
Combination study desk and ham station - WØZAQ/Ø - Iowa State University, 1961
WØZAQ - 1963 - USAF uniform
WØSH - 1977
January 1980
Visiting Don Wallace, W6AM and operating the W6AM station on CW - November, 1980
AFA6QD (me) operating at the Barry Goldwater, K7UGA USAF MARS Station AFC6BG - 1981
W4GAL - 2004 - Gainesville, Florida
W4GAL - 2005
W4GAL - 2007 - Gainesville
2014 - Gary, W4GAL & Duane, W5SHN - I found Duane in Mountain Home, Arkansas
and went to visit, 60 years after the first picture was taken in this sequence. I'm 72, Duane is 94
A final note I'm sorry to report: Duane passed on to the ham station in the sky in May of 2017. He was 97.
W4GAL - 2015 - Gainesville
W4GAL - 2017 - Melbourne, Florida
2019 - Got on the air with a 2nd visit to W1AW - ARRL HQ in Hartford. My first visit was in 1986.
