W3BES, explaining the finer points of the SS exchange at a Frankford Radio
Club meeting in the late 1950's:
"Give W4KFC and W9IOP 599's. Everyone else gets a 579."
Gerry's son, Alan, was W3EBG in those days. One year Gerry (with a little
assistance from Alan) decided to go "double multi-op"; W3BES and W3EBG both
entered the contest, and both operated (about) 33 hours each, rather than
have just one callsign operating the 40 hours the contest was then limited
to. As part of the exercise, Gerry fabricated a "CQ Machine" with two loops
of RG8U on some sort of flywheel (which he may have gotten from an old
record player); he cut off the outer jacket of the coax to make dots and
dashes from the braid, then used some sort of stylus to key "CQ SS de W3BES"
and "CQ SS de W3EBG" from the two loops, switching the stylus from one loop
to the other as needed. (Both stations, of course, got the "sweep" that
year; when one call worked a new section, they changed to the other call
right away and worked it again.)
-- Walt Deemer
73, Walt, KN4T (ex-AC1O)
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