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12/19/2023

Episode 480 - Caryn Eve Murray - KD2GUT

Transcription Funded by: Martin Blustine, K1FQL

Eric 4Z1UG (00:00:00):
Caryn Eve Murray, KD2GUT, while inspired at a young age to ham radio. It wasn't until after a successful career as a professional writer and journalist that she rediscovered amateur radio in 2014. Her ham radio history was pretty thoroughly covered in a recent Ham Radio Workbench Podcast , a few weeks ago, our conversation explored her professional history leading to her reporting for Amateur Radio Newsline and her love for CW. KD2GUT is my QSO Today.
KD2GUT. This is Eric 4Z1UG. Are you there, Caryn?

Caryn KD2GUT (00:01:42):
I am. This is KD2GUT. Hi Eric.

Eric 4Z1UG (00:01:47):
Hi Caryn. Thanks for joining me on the QSO Today podcast. Let's start at the beginning. Where did you grow up?

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WA4JQS

12/4/2023

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Episode 365 - Tony DePrato - WA4JQS

Transcript Funded by: John Lockhart W0DC

Like many of us, it was an early love of radio and a junior high school mentor that got Tony DePrato, WA4JQS, on the air in the early 1960s. An 80-meter DX contact from his native Kentucky to Australia, ignited a passion for DX that resulted in Tony leading two DX expeditions to the most sought after DX entities in the world. WA4JQS tells his ham radio story in this QSO Today.
WA4JQS, this is Eric, 4Z1UG. Are you there, Tony?

Tony WA4JQS:
Yes, I am. How are you doing today?

Eric 4Z1UG:
I'm great, Tony. Thanks for joining me on the QSO Today Podcast. Can we start at the beginning of your ham radio story, when and how did it start for you?

Tony WA4JQS:
Well, I was about 12 years old, and I got a stomach bug, and I was at home for about five or six days, I missed a little... Right out of a week at school. So I started reading and staying up late at night. And I had an old Admiral AM Radio. I started turning around at night and I would hear stations, the border blasters out of Mexico, XERB and Wolfman Jack and those people, and KOMA and Oklahoma City. And it just fascinated me that I could hear stations that far away.
I went back to school and I was taking industrial arts, and the teacher there in the class, I didn't know was a ham, till one day he brought a Knight kit R100 and a Globe Scout into the classroom, set it up, and hooked an outside antenna up and started turning around on the receiver. And I was just amazed. I was hearing people all over the world, and I just thought that was so fantastic that he could sit there with a microphone in front of him, and talk to someone 10,000 miles away with another microphone sitting at their home. And that was how I got interested. I just fell in love with it, it was love at first sight. And he let us play with the radio during our lunch hour.

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