I was puttering around the shack yesterday, putting some stuff away and throwing out stuff that I’ve either finished with or will probably never get back to. In doing so, I ran across this:
It’s hard to read, but the date of the 15 wpm endorsement is “JUN 28, 1972, almost 50 years ago! I think that, just for fun, I’ll try to qualify for the 30 wpm endorsement.
The certificate itself is really brittle, but I don’t want one of the new ones. I don’t like the way they look with the Vibroplex key on them. Maybe I can have this one laminated.
While I was at it, I decided to re-organize my small collection of ARRL Handbooks.
As you can see, I have the 1949, 1958, 1963, 1965, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1985, 1986, and 2000 Handbooks. Not shown is the six-volume 2022 Handbook that I purchased a couple of months ago.
Paging through these Handbooks really gives one a sense for the history of the hobby. For example, the 1948 Handbook has a chapter on broadcast interference (BCI). Now, we’d call that radiofrequency interference (RFI) or electromagnetic interference (EMI). Also, I didn’t find any information on RF exposure in the 1948 Handbook.