Who was your first Elmer?

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None of my business really, unless you'd like to share. I hope you do!
Elmers often turn out to be much more interesting that just the endlessly patient grown-ups that get us started in radio.

My "uncle" Christopher, aka to my parents as Mr C A Henn-Collins, GC5ZC, of Mount Durand, St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands, UK, was such fun and fired my interest in Amateur Radio.

He never breathed a word about WW2, beyond that he served, like many others. Imagine my astonishment in later years when I blundered on his Wiki page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Henn-Collins

I was awestruck! I felt so stupid not to have suspected that this was the same mentor who patiently explained how he built a generator of Voice Sideband, by successively filtering an AM signal, and then feeding it to a hefty tubed linear from his basement, and onward to a two-element yagi to get an enormou…login to view the rest of this post