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Personal Narrative Essay: Ham Radio

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This all started a few years ago when I was looking for something to do one Saturday morning. My father walked in the room and said “Hey Russell I have something you may like it is called a ham Fest it is Claremore would you like to go?” that is how it all began.

When we finally got dressed and ready, we decided to actually go to this thing, I was very sceptical about my interests in this Foren hobby called Ham Radio. Once I got there it was a very interesting sight to see. It was a giant room full of tables with all ages of electronics on them from some old tube type radios that looked like they were from the stone age to the brand new pristine electronics with the brand names like “Yaesu” and “Icom.” The other thing I noticed was the people in the room, most of them were not like …show more content…

When we got there jerry’s first thing that he said is “In about two months there is a soda event in Colorado call the fourteenth event.” Then he went into an explanation of what the event meant. It entailed climbing a fourteen thousand foot mountain The highest class of mountain in Colorado. Now at this time the highest mountains I had ever seen were some small Appalachian mountains on a car trip through Tennessee. So I naturally thought that fourteen thousand feet would not be very hard.
I was wrong we made plans to go on this trip and participate on this activity the only problem was I had marching band up until five pm friday and again eight am Monday. So we had that amount of time to do this activity, the activity took all Saturday and most of Sunday to complete it entailed climbing up to base camp Saturday sleeping at base camp Saturday night and climbing the rest of the mountain Sunday morning and descending the mountain loading the car and heading home Sunday. So we would have to drive through the night to get to Colorado and then drive through the night Sunday to get

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