Oscar Hills, Guilford, CT. I was first licensed as a Novice Class ham in 1969 while I was in high school.
My callsign then was
WN6NDG (that's the Fall 1970 Radio Amateur Callbook), and I spent that year working CW in the
Novice bands with many great QSO's and a wonderful improvement in my CW skills. Unfortunately, other interests kept me from renewing or upgrading the license, and I fell out of
touch with ham radio.
A few months ago, I saw a car in the grocery store parking lot that was covered with antennas. I could see that the average person, like the rest of my family on that day,
for example, viewed such a vehicle
with apprehension, bordering on revulsion, and had to ask why anyone would
need such an arrangement. I judged this to be the kind of question that, if it needed to be asked at all, could not
be answered satisfactorily. My own response, on the other hand, was to vow on the spot to get re-licensed in amateur radio! Being a techie type guy with some decent college physics and math under my
belt, I studied hard and passed all of my tests.
I was initially licensed as AB1FW, but managed to snag the shorter
vanity callsign, WV1C, though the CW weight is about the same. People have asked me
"what's the
vanity about
that callsign?" Another unanswerable question. It was available and I kind of liked it. And, there you have it.
