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I was digging around in a junkbox and came upon this fancy Cross sleeved box: Opening it revealed the crystals I used with the HW-16 as a Novice (1972).   I think I got the 7050 kHz at AES, used it on mostly 21,150 kHz.  The aluminum crystal was a color burst from an old TV (I didn't have an 80 meter antenna, just used it for alignment).  The other 4 were my main 40 meter Novice band crystals - JAN didn't mark as well as Crystek so I taped the frequencies on the back: When I got my General I borrowed a Knight VFO from the Nicolet High School radio club, I didn't key the VFO so that was kind of the end of break-in for me as the VFO was LOUD.  Ah, the good old days !  :) Best Regards, Chuck, WB9KZY http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm

 I noticed there are scans of old Callbooks on archive.org now, here is a peek from the Winter 1972 issue:   WN9KZY to WN9LAB, 4 Novices I am at the top, WN9KZY, Johnny Loftus was WN9KZZ, Terry (Tamar) Moore was WN9LAA and Sam Sansone was WN9LAB.   The four of us had taken an informal license class during the summer of 1972 given by WB9JHW, Morrie.  We learned the three cornered hat curriculum of Ham Radio:  the theory of radio, the regulations and finally the Morse code.  We were all connected by the radio club at Nicolet High School in Glendale, WI.  Here is a page on my site of the Glen Gates Gang, our field day group, Mr. Gates was a physics teacher and the advisor to the radio club at Nicolet.     http://wb9kzy.com/ggg.htm Finally one evening we all went over to the Bolton residence in Fox Point where Todd (WB9HJG) and his Dad, (Bill, WB9HGH) gave us the Novice exam.  Todd did most of the actual work (he recorded W1AW...