just to start off with when I was about 15 years old I was in a ranching truck out on the duck water area of nevada. The ranching truck had a cobra with single side band. Board from sitting waiting I turned it on and low and behold it was the east coast. I had to to talk and of course HF came thru with only 4 watts no problem. I had the bug!!!
After graduating a technical high school college, and the IRS stole money from my dad and our family that was taken in a very negative fashion from a honest christian family, I was now on my own to make it however I could without the income of a family business to finish college for me. I enlisted in the US Navy and was told that I had tested the top 2 percentile of the entire navy. They had to offer a engineering electronics level in Submarine Communications or nuclear training. All that radiation and heat made my decision very easy. Dang right call me sparky baby!!! And while in I got my ham ticket too. After 2 back to back active sea tours I was forced out by uncle clinton because he had downsized the sub force to nothing and there was nowhere to go but out no cross rating either.
My 1st job was .... hold your breath! Building communications sites. 15 years later I am still into ham radio, scanning, CB's and electronics. And still do military contracting building and overhauling everything I can get my hands on. But because military contracts are few and far between now I am an instrumentation electrician. All started with picking up that mike and saying howdy to some good ol boys down south and on the east coast. Hope the CB never goes away same as Ham radio!!!
After graduating a technical high school college, and the IRS stole money from my dad and our family that was taken in a very negative fashion from a honest christian family, I was now on my own to make it however I could without the income of a family business to finish college for me. I enlisted in the US Navy and was told that I had tested the top 2 percentile of the entire navy. They had to offer a engineering electronics level in Submarine Communications or nuclear training. All that radiation and heat made my decision very easy. Dang right call me sparky baby!!! And while in I got my ham ticket too. After 2 back to back active sea tours I was forced out by uncle clinton because he had downsized the sub force to nothing and there was nowhere to go but out no cross rating either.
My 1st job was .... hold your breath! Building communications sites. 15 years later I am still into ham radio, scanning, CB's and electronics. And still do military contracting building and overhauling everything I can get my hands on. But because military contracts are few and far between now I am an instrumentation electrician. All started with picking up that mike and saying howdy to some good ol boys down south and on the east coast. Hope the CB never goes away same as Ham radio!!!
