N5GHN - Deborak L. Reynolds N5GHN

Deborak L. Reynolds
El Paso, TX

QCWA # 35759

I was introduced to ham radio thru my husband (WB6WKR) who has had his license since the mid 1960's. When I finally got my license he changed his call to NJ5W so we would both have 5 call....

El Paso is at the far western tip of Texas, where New Mexico and the Mexican state of Chihuahua meet in a harsh desert environment around the slopes of Mount Franklin on the Rio Grande, which has often been compared to the Nile. As they approached the Rio Grande from the south, Spaniards in the sixteenth century viewed two mountain ranges rising out of the desert with a deep chasm between. This site they named El Paso del Norte (the Pass of the North), the future location of two border cities - Ciudad Juarez on the south or right bank of the Rio Grande, and El Paso, Texas, on the opposite side of the river. Since the sixteenth century the pass has been a continental crossroads; a north-south route along a historic camino real prevailed during the Spanish and Mexican periods, but traffic shifted to an east-west axis in the years following 1848, when the Rio Grande became an international boundary.

November 6, 2014