Subj : Newsline Part 3
To : ALL USERS
From : DARYL STOUT
Date : Thu Mar 10 2016 09:18 pm
KICKER: RADIO'S HIS ELIXIR OF YOUTH
No doubt you've heard of "Last Man Standing," the popular TV show whose
star is a ham radio operator. But have you ever heard of "First Kid
Sitting?" Well, that would have described a teenaged Jack Goldfarb in
1941, as he sat in an FCC office in downtown Cleveland taking the exam
that would make him a licensed ham at age 16.
Goldfarb, W8WGO, who turns 92 this month, was the only youngster that
day. Indeed, he was the only test-taker.
But it's probably the last time he experienced anything solitary
connected with ham radio. Radio, and Morse Code, served him well
during his time in the Army during World War II. And for years the
University Heights resident used an antenna, mounted atop 40-foot tower
at home, and like so many other DXers, merged his world with those of
hams overseas. Now he's more often finding his way into pileups via
smaller antennas, or letting the Internet help his radio make those
connections. In a recent interview with cleveland.com, he explained
how he often ends up Elmering some of his long-distance contacts, too.
And he described how making contact with them is what keeps him
feeling - and maybe even looking - younger than his years.
His 16-year-old self, that "first kid sitting," would probably also be
the first to agree.
(CLEVELAND.COM)
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Bulletin; QSL.NET; QRZ.COM., Radio Society of Great Britain; Mike
Sercer, WA9FDO; Southgate Amateur Radio News; Philippine Amateur Radio
Association; Southwest Ohio DX Association; TWiT TV; WestBritaon.com;
Wireless Institute of Australia; and you our listeners, that's all from
the Amateur Radio Newsline. Our email address is
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For now, with Caryn Eve Murray, KD2GUT, at the news desk in New York,
and our news team worldwide, I'm Jim Damron, N8TMW, in Charleston,
West Virginia, saying 73, and as always, we thank you for listening.
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