{"id":8839,"date":"2017-09-08T14:36:56","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T22:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/?p=8839"},"modified":"2017-09-08T14:36:56","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T22:36:56","slug":"stephen-sala-k7awb-celebrates-his-60th-ham-radio-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/?p=8839","title":{"rendered":"STEPHEN SALA K7AWB CELEBRATES  HIS 60TH HAM RADIO ANNIVERSARY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He took his novice test from Al William Beck W7EQM in Page, Id.  He received his KN7AWB license on July 29, 1957 in Osburn, ID.  Al&#8217;s initials are AWB and that is lottery odds that Steve&#8217;s call contain Al&#8217;s initials, a long time before vanity licensing.  Here are a couple of photos from that era.    <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/scan0001-300x295.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"295\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8715\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/scan0001-300x295.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/scan0001.jpg 656w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nAn Allied Radio Knight Kit T-50 transmitter, a National SW-54 receiver, and a Heath Kit Q-multiplier.  On top of the receiver is a grid modulator I built from the Handbook to get on AM phone.  The wall proved incapable of holding all the QSL cards eventually.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/scan0004-300x295.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"295\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8716\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/scan0004-300x295.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/scan0004.jpg 659w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nA little later, He had upgraded to a Central electronics 20A SSB transmitter, converted his T-50 transmitter to a 50 watt amplifier for the 20A, and converted his Knight Kit VFO to a 9MHz output for the 20A.  A Heath Kit Grid Dip Oscillator and phone patch were added along with the super Hallicrafters SX-99 receiver.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}