NI9Y Amateur Radio Station, Mishawaka, IN. USA

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<-----1997 1957------>

Below left is my basement bomb shelter station. This station is Y2K compliant.

Courtney, Andrew, and Whitney		Guarding the sign.

E-Mail->ni9y@sbcglobal.net

Dan with Andrew, Whitney and Katie

At age six I became interested in the mysteries of radio. My father George, was also 15 when he became a ham operator. He let his ham license expire during the 1939 depression. He later became KA9SOA. Dad was always tinkering with radio sets. I recalled many occasions when dad would repair a Hallicrafters S19R. receiver

which we used for short wave listening. I asked dad if it was possible to see the person talking thru the radio speaker.

Then we built a single tube regenerative receiver. Dad told me he had a radio license when he was 15 years old on a farm in North Judson, Indiana. I remember visiting the farm and finding old radio parts. His father, Julius Caesar, told me stories about Marconie in Italy and how mothers would not let their children walk past his two story house because they thought he was crazy. The farm radio was a 1932 Philco Tombstone

which I listened to Arther Godfrey, The Lone Ranger and Tom Mix. I requested my Extra class callsign be reissued. I was first licensed as KN9EUV in 1955. I took my General exam in Chicago in 1956 and dropped the "N" in my call.

In 1958 I enlisted in the Navy and because of my radio experience I was assigned to the U.S.S. Shenandoah (AD-26) as a radioman striker. in a few months I was a RM3 Class, then promoted to RM2nd Class Petty Ofiicer.

I met my xyl, Janet, on a blind date, in April 1961, a few months before I was discharged from the Navy. Two weeks later we were married. A month later I got my First Class Radio Telephone license. a couple weeks later I help build a 5 tower directional commercial broadcast station, WGSB, in Geneva, Illinois.

1970-1978 WSBT-TV Newsman in South Bend, Indiana.

After 18 years in broadcasting, I went on to electronic research and development for Intertec Corporation of Elkhart, Indiana.

I became an insurance agent in 1980.

The story continues

We raised two children, David, KA9NEC, and Katherine. David is looking for an xyl and Katherine is married to a Purdue graduate. My grand daughters, Whitney, likes to tell stories.

Courtney---->

likes to make up stories, Andrew--->

operates AM phone on 3.880 kc on the station below.

Studio 1 upstairs

KWM-2A1923 Crosley

1953 Zenith portable, National NC-300 Dream receiver and Hammurland HQ-129X
. In Business since YZero. Trust in Jesus; and if you don't believe; the devil will always take you back.