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<blockquote data-quote="Mikeo512" data-source="post: 1926596" data-attributes="member: 404931"><p>OK … great to have this help. Many tnx indeed. Been off the air for many a year but will always remember that night when I‘d soldered the last joint in an 807 PA and called CQ for the first time. This was on 5 November 1958 on 20m … about 1 in the morning. To my astonishment, straight back came W2HAQ in NYC. He QSL’d direct and I still have that card on the board by my desk. Magical moment! </p><p></p><p>73 de G3MHF. </p><p></p><p>PS: Since writing the above, I've done a Google search on Heinz Milark, W2HAQ, and found various articles about him. He contributed to DX magazines and, as I also later became, was a sea-going Radio Officer. But Heinz was in the US Mercantile Marine; whereas I was in the British Merchant Navy. His QSL card is original: a drawing of Heinz sitting on a sausage marked 57 ... as in Heinz 57 varieties. There's a Morse key at the front of the sausage and Heinz is tapping away while holding a microphone in his left hand. On the back of the card, which he kindly sent by air mail at my request, he wrote, "Welcome to Ham Society, Mike. Been at it 24 years and you are my G # 1001" (For those unfamiliar with ham radio parlance, this means he had 'worked' (communicated with) 1001 other G stations (British stations). Our contact was in Morse code, of course.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mikeo512, post: 1926596, member: 404931"] OK … great to have this help. Many tnx indeed. Been off the air for many a year but will always remember that night when I‘d soldered the last joint in an 807 PA and called CQ for the first time. This was on 5 November 1958 on 20m … about 1 in the morning. To my astonishment, straight back came W2HAQ in NYC. He QSL’d direct and I still have that card on the board by my desk. Magical moment! 73 de G3MHF. PS: Since writing the above, I've done a Google search on Heinz Milark, W2HAQ, and found various articles about him. He contributed to DX magazines and, as I also later became, was a sea-going Radio Officer. But Heinz was in the US Mercantile Marine; whereas I was in the British Merchant Navy. His QSL card is original: a drawing of Heinz sitting on a sausage marked 57 ... as in Heinz 57 varieties. There's a Morse key at the front of the sausage and Heinz is tapping away while holding a microphone in his left hand. On the back of the card, which he kindly sent by air mail at my request, he wrote, "Welcome to Ham Society, Mike. Been at it 24 years and you are my G # 1001" (For those unfamiliar with ham radio parlance, this means he had 'worked' (communicated with) 1001 other G stations (British stations). Our contact was in Morse code, of course. [/QUOTE]
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