OHIO PERIOD

By October of 1980, I received my General Class license... KA8CDB (can do boy). A local ham had a Drake TR-4 he wanted to sell. This was my first real station: TR-4, 5 band vertical, good RF ground, antenna tuner, dummy load.... I still operated mostly with CW but was starting to also use SSB. I found CW easier to make contacts because of lower QRM; it was much easier to deal with other QSOs since the tones were always slightly different. However, I still had very little time and did on send or receive QSL. During this period, the furthest QSO I had was a contact with a Ham in Columbia on 40 meters. The only QSL card I received was from KA3GGH, Jon  in Pittsburgh, on October 25, 1980 at 14247  UTC,  on 80 meters using CW.