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WN5IGF was my original Novice license callsign. A photo of the actual license is shown below. WN5IGF is now the club callsign of the Harrison Radio Club. The Heathkit DX-60B and HR-10B in the photo below is the actual equipment I used as a Novice. At that time the transmitter had to be crystal controlled. The HG-10B VFO was added when I upgraded to a General class license. All of the equipment in the photo below is operational and I occasionally have it on the air, most notably each March during the Novice Rig Roundup<\/a> – my NRR number is # 981. My first contact as a radio amateur was with John Firey, then WN5HRI. In 2006 when I was elected President of ARRL, John contacted me and said he had my old Novice QSL card in his file and wanted to return it to me, for which I am eternally thankful. A photocopy is below. Those days are the fondest of memories, I will forever cherish them.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WN5IGF WN5IGF was my original Novice license callsign. A photo of the actual license is shown below. WN5IGF is now the club callsign of the Harrison Radio Club. The Heathkit DX-60B and HR-10B in the photo below is the actual equipment I used as a Novice. At that time the transmitter had to be crystal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"Arial","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2053","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/w5zn.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/w5zn.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/w5zn.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w5zn.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w5zn.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2053"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/w5zn.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2718,"href":"https:\/\/w5zn.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2053\/revisions\/2718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/w5zn.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}