[today’s run: 3 miles with the dog\u00a0 (to the white house)]<\/p>\n
I’m not exactly sure how my father got interested in ham radio.\u00a0 But I do remember going with him to the home of a fellow church member who was a WW2 radio operator and long time ham.<\/p>\n
Later, my dad got his ham license and I tagged along at various times.\u00a0 He took me to the Des Moines Radio Amateur Association meetings a few times.\u00a0 One time we went up on the roof of the KRNT building, the base of the tower, the\u00a0 “Red – warmer weather ahead” weather beacon.<\/p>\n
Over the years I have collected a fair amount of ham radio literature, sales brochures, old catalogs, etc.<\/p>\n
I don’t know exactly how I got this thing, but I have a program for the 1954 DMRAA ARRL convention at the Hotel Fort Des Moines.\u00a0 (This is quite awhile before I came on the scene.)<\/p>\n
The president of the DMRAA was Bob Denniston (W0NWX) a long time DX-er.\u00a0 Earlier in 1954 Denniston and four others from Iowa made the famous Clipperton Island DX-pedition that used the Hallicrafters SX-88 receiver.\u00a0 Sure enough, there are two slots in the program for hour-long presentations about the Clipperton trip.\u00a0 Later Denniston became ARRL president and eventually retired to the British Virgin Islands.\u00a0 There’s quite a bit on the internet about Denniston.<\/p>\n
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