[CQ-Contest] RE: SO2R

[BobK8IA at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/28/2003 6:26:11 PM US Mountain Standard Time, 
kq2m at earthlink.net writes:


> I find it amusing that no one ever bothers to mention that I was the
> first guy who REALLY started using SO2R in every DX contest, back in 
> 1985 and won the 1987-1989 ARRLCW by doing two radios before
> it became "de rigueur".
> 
> 

Hi Bob;
I don't know what "REALLY" is, but W4KFC, W9IOP and W3GRF (I think) and 
probably several others had you beat by about 30 years! In fact, that's as 
far as I go back in ham radio (mid-late 50s) and I suspect they were doing it 
before then. 

73,
Bob K8IA
Mesa,Arizona USA
near the Superstition Mtns