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This Ham radio operator did a nice job with the garage door art, tieing it into the hole radio spark, arc theme. (Unknown call sign) Seen in Santa Clara CA.

Happy Fathers Day

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Richard K Moore

Dad was a telecommunications engineer and his HAM radio was his internet. Back in the 1940s and 50s instant messaging was a more hands on endeavor and the cards on the wall behind him was his contact list. During his career he helped design the system that makes it possible for The North American Aerospace Defense Command "NORAD" to talk to submarines and missile silos, deep under ground and water. This was the global communication network that became the World Wide Web. Most of the things he did, he was not allowed to talk about "Top Secret" but once in a while he’d let stuff slip to his boy, whom he didn’t think would remember or know what he was talking about. For instance he came back from a trip to Washington DC 1979 and told me he had been in a room looking at the top of Mikhail Gorbachev’s head, via a live satellite feed. Another time he was in Italy and wanted to talk to my brother, whom was in the Navy and he picked up his phone and told the operator to contact my brothers ship, she patched him threw to the privet phone of Frederick C. Turner, VADM, USN, The then commander of the sixth fleets in the Mediterranean , they grilled my brother for hours trying to find out how an enlisted man would get a phone call on the Admirals phone. One can only imagine what dad would be doing with his PC if he were around today.

Ham radio swap meet

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Ham radio: your ticket to the world!