About K66
November 3rd, 2008I suppose that most of my friends that visit this web site wonder where the k66 name came from. I have been a FCC licensed amateur radio operator for about 34 years. My original callsign was WB7UGZ, which I obtained while living and working in and around Fallon, Nevada. I was stationed in Fallon with the U.S. Air Force.
I left Nevada and went overseas to Athens, Greece. While in Greece, I obtained a Greek callsign, SV0AM. When I left Greece in 1981, I came to California. I operated for a couple of years as WB7UGZ in Winton, CA.
In 1983, I was sent to Thule Greenland. While at Thule, I obtained a Greenlandic callsign, OX5RM. I was operating radio from the top of the world. Operating conditions up there were fantastic, absolutely no man made static at all.
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