Welcome to the "DB Net" website. I hope that your visit is fun and memorable... Come back often to see further additional "goodies" as they are added... Bob Richmond "w8mnq the 2nd"
Here is a couple of the founders of the DB Net. If you have any other old pictures of the founders that could be included here, please contact me... w8mnq the 2nd..... (First photo is of my dad, Cliff Richmond-w8mnq the first...)
2nd photo is of Amos Schmidt-w8laq, better known on-the-air in the 1950's as "Smitty"...
October 1972 "Radio Trade Around" newspaper article...
"Radio Trade Around' was an amateur radio publication of the 1970's....
1956 DB net reguations
In July 1956 the DB Net regulations were drawn up by w8pnx, w8vzq and w8mnq...
page 2 of 1956 regulations...
Original DB Net "canine names"....
Each original DB Net member selected a "dog" breed as his personal indentifier...
!955 w8mnq logbook.....
Here is an early representation of "DB Net" check-in activity....
Egg "Transmission timers...."
These were the two minute "transmission" timers that were used in 1955 by my dad... Cliff-w8mnq the 1st...
DB Net gatherings....
From time to time, the DB Net memembers would have a get-to-gether somewhere, usually during the summer vaction period... Here are some examples.
!968 DB Net Findlay, Ohio hamfest group photo taken by Cliff-w8mnq...
Findlay,Ohio photo info.....
1970 DB Net Picnic
1970 DB net photo session...
1970 DB Net picnic.. Findlay, Ohio....
1970 photo info...
1994 DB Net gathering in Port Huron, Michigan....
Summer of 1994.... kf8ik had not become w8mnq the 2nd as yet.
