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My Grandfather was the spark. Born at the beginning of the 20th Century, Radio was a magical instrument. Building his first radio led to the path of having stores that were sales and repair shops almost equivalent to Best Buy. I grew up in that environment. I would say the key moment was when he retired and got back into Ham Radio that he bought a Kenwood 2M TR-2200 and brought it home during Thanks Giving (Mid 70’s) to try out local repeaters in our area. I was blown away. That was the moment. But as a kid, attention span was short and did not start understanding the terminology until I started building kits and had more attention span.
It took about another decade for me to get my ticket thanks to many Elmers.
It’s an infectious disease that can have the whole family become hams, and K3MRI has met most of the hams in the Family.
