Oh, and I thought you were moving to zone 23, or at least zone 25....
>
> From: Kok Chen <chen@mac.com>
To: <rtty@contesting.com>
> Date: 2002/05/29 Wed PM 01:57:54 CDT
> To: <RTTY@contesting.com>
> Subject: [RTTY] What a pileup!
>
> Sorry guys, I didn't expect the reflector bandwidth to increase
> in this manner :-).
>
> The puzzle will be revealed in a couple of days anyway by
> all the callsign sites.
>
> You take the first letter and last letter from my old call,
> and you mash them together to make the new suffix, HI.
>
> The previous holder of W7AY, Wilke E. Cruse, had died on
> October 31, 1996. The callsign thus became available for
> reassignment even back in November 1, 1998.
>
> After getting the callsign, I poked around the net a bit
> and found out that N0AX is a good friend of the first W7AY.
> From Ward, I found out that Wilke (who went by "Bill") was
> a radio operator in the 1930's on a steamship which made
> Seattle/Alaska/Japan/Hong Kong/Shanghai runs.
>
> UE
> Chen, W7AY
>
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