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N9FDF
STATION EQUIPMENT
THING I LIKE TO DO
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PUBLIC LIBRARY

A LITTLE HISTORY ABOUT N9FDF (TOBY)

  IN SOUTH EASTERN KENTUCKY IN FLOYD COUNTRY ON HIGHWAY US 80 ABOUT 2O MILES
  WEST OF PRESTONSBURG ON THE RIGHT FORK OF BEAVER CREEK LIES THE SMALL
  TOWN OF GARRETT. 
  AT GARRETT IS WHERE THE ROCK FOLK CREEK AND STONE COAL CREEK RUN INTO 
  BEAVER CREEK. I LIVE AT THE HEAD OF STONE COLD ROAD, IT USED TO BE CALL
  STONE COAL CREEK , I GUESS IT GOT CHANGE AFTER THE ROAD WAS PUT IN
  (NO SEEM TO KNOW HOW STONE COAL GOT IT NAME )  I LIVE UP IN THE HEAD OF
   A HOLLOW ABOUT MILE FROM THE BLACK TOP ROAD.
  I WENT TO A 4 ROOM SCHOOL ON STONE COLD CREEK UNTIL THE  8 GRADE
  AND THEN I WENT TO THE GARRETT HIGH SCHOOL. AFTER GRADUATION IN SPRING
  1970 FROM HIGH SCHOOL. I WORK THE SUMMER DRILLING WATER WELL AND ONE GAS
  WELL AND MOVE TO INDIANA IN THE FALL 1970 AND STATED TO WORK AT BETHLEHEM
  STEEL MILL .
      I WORK IN THE COKE OVEN AT THE STEEL MILL ,WITH A CB'ER (BIG JOHN)
  BUT BIG JOHN WAS ONLY 5 FEET 6 INCH TALL. AND WEIGHT ABOUT 110
  POUND. WE WORKED ON THE SAME CREW TOGETHER AND BIG JOHN LIKE TO TALK
  ABOUT CB  HOW FAR HE COULD TALK AND HOW MANY WATTS HE RUNNING. HAVEING
  ALWAY LIKEING TO PLAY WITH TV AND RADIO THIS SEEM TO BE SOMETHNIG NEW
  TO CHECK OUT. LIVEING BY A LIBRARY I STARTED TO CHECKING ON SOME BOOK FOR
  CB' AND HAM RADIO KEEP COMEING UP. START READING ABOUT HAM RADIO AND
  WHAT YOU COULD DO WITH VERY LOW POWER AND JUST A WIRE ANTENNA. THE MORE
  I READ ABOUT HAM RADIO THE MORE I WANT TO KNOW. I GUESS THAT WAS THE
  START OF HAM RADIO GOT MY NOVICE TICKET IN FALL OF 1974 (WB9ZDV)
  AND MADE GENERAL IN JUNE  OF 1975. IN 1979 I MOVE TO VAPLARASIO.IND 
  FROM GARY.IND AND CHANGE MY  CALL TO (N9FDF). AND 1985 I UPGRADE TO
  ADVANCE CLASS. UPGRADE TO A EXTRA IN 2000.
     NOW  25 YEARS  PLUS YEARS HAVE GONE BYE AND I STILL WORKING AT THE
  STEEL MILL AS A MILLWRIGHT IN THE 160 PLATE MILL.
 
   SORRY TO SAY IN 2003 BETHLEHEM STEEL WENT BANKRUPT AND WAS SOLD TO
   I.S.G  NOW I WORK FOR ISG IN THE 160 INCH PLATE MILL AS A MILLWRIGHT.
    AND STILL ENJOYING  HAM RADIO.  I WONDER WHERE BIG JOHN AT?