05-21-14 11:54 Roy Witt wrote to Holger Granholm about LPDA antenna

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Howdy! Roy,
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 RW> I also have my 1st ever Amateur Radio Handbook from 1964, but
 RW> it is too fragile to handle these days without damaging the so
 RW> often referred to antenna information pages I used back then.

The 1957 Handbook that someone gave me (in 1961) is still all together.

My 1960 Handbook (which was the first I ever bought) has fell apart.
It is hard to handle and even though I don't read it very often,
it is still part of my library, and I keep it if ever I wanted to
re-read an article or project in it, it's there for me to fumble with.

I'd guess the Company A.R.R.L chose to Print (and Bind) the
1960 Edition issue of the Handbook had used a 'less expensive' method
of putting the sections of that Edition together.

The later Handbooks I have bought since 1964 all have been bound much
better than that 1960 copy I got when I was in Norfolk, Virginia at
Navy Radiomans School and was wanting to learn enough so I could get
Commercial RadioTelephone and RadioTelegraph Licenses from the F.C.C.
office in downtown Norfolk.

I took the F.C.C.'s tests and got 3rd Class Licenses for both of them
before I finished School on the Base in May 1960.

I never used the CW License, but I once was a Radio Dispatcher for the
local government 'City Radio' station and showed my Third Class
RadioTelephone License to the boss when he asked me to fill out a
Form to get a Restricted RadioTelephone Permit, to show him I didn't
need a 'Permit' because the 'License' I already owned gave me
all the permission needed to be a Radio Dispatcher for the City.

He still had me fill out the 'Permit' Form just to keep me legal.

I did ask him a few months later to sign (Endorse) my License so I
could get the F.C.C. to renew it for another Term.

... Inflation has gone up over $1 a quart. - W.C. Fields
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