Jean Shepherd WOR Ham Radio Bootleggers

Meanderer

Meanderer

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Amateur radio,,, Ham Radio Stories,, pretenders on the Air that do not have an Official Ham Radio license 3-6-64 WOR Radio NYC
 

Nice, Jean was an icon long before A Christmas Story. Not as many bootleggers now.

I still hear a fair amount of pirate broadcasters below the 40 meter amateur band on USB.
 
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I was listening to some Brazilians using a US MilSat last night on 253.750 MHz FM. It’s pretty common. I guess they’re using old US equipment.
 
Got my Ham ticket in 1959 (still have my original 1X3 call). Discovered Shep a few years later through his books. A lot of his stories were fictional but I believe his ham yarns were pretty much based on fact. I really identified with his story about saving up for a new set of 807's and his pain when his mail order arrived with the sound of broken glass coming from inside the box.
 
Licensed as a General Class 40 years, 1x3 call. I work FM satellites and the ISS when the APRS digipeater is working. I use a HT with a portable log periodic Elk antenna.
 
Licensed 56 years, last 40 as extra class earned with 20wpm and drawing schematics and write-in answers. I quit operating 20 years ago as I had achieved everything I wanted. I was a homebrewer and loved to design and experiment. Never cared for operating. I only got licensed so I could test experimental transmitters, any mode any frequency. My dad was a builder and as a single child on a remote mountain ranch, I loved building radios with my dad. The old tube radio design intrigued me. I started with crystal sets at age 6, then to transistors, and finally found my love in vacuum tube design. I became a broadcast engineer in my early 20's and worked at a few AM stations and lost interest with FM growing. Never cared for TV or digital electronics.
 
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JaniceM said:
The same person who wrote "It Runs in the Family"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Summer_Story
I absolutely love that movie!!!
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"My Summer Story (originally released in theaters as It Runs in the Family) is a 1994 comedy film directed by Bob Clark that serves as a sequel to his 1983 film A Christmas Story. Like the previous film, it is based on semi-autobiographical stories by Jean Shepherd, primarily from his book In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash".
 
Licensed in 1953, still have my 1x3 call. Operated overseas for 2 years a KG6IVB on Iwo Jima. I put a 3 element multiband yagi on top of an old radar tower.
 

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