[CQ-Contest] 4-digit CK's?

[Paul J. Piercey]

This is all making my Mayan Calendar theory seem rather plausible :)

73 -- Paul VO1HE
 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of 
> Michael Keane K1MK
> Sent: November 21, 2008 15:11
> To: CQ-Contest
> Cc: wn3vaw at verizon.net
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] 4-digit CK's?
> 
> On 11/20/2008 8:33 PM, Ron Notarius W3WN wrote:
> 
> > First:
> > The US Department of Commerce didn't start issuing Amateur Radio 
> > licenses until 1912.
> > 
> > So even though there are a handful of stations that first 
> went on the 
> > air in
> > 1909 (W1MX (1XM) MIT and K3CR (8XE) Penn State to name two), they 
> > weren't first LICENSED until 1912.
> 
> It was the US Department of Commerce and Labor at that time. 
> The split into separate Departments of Commerce and Labor 
> came shortly thereafter in 1913.
> 
> The 1912 Act to regulate radio communications did not take 
> effect until December 13, 1912. Relatively few licenses would 
> have been issued in those last two weeks of 1912. 1913 is 
> much more likely to have been the year first licensed.
> 
> Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat 
> it. -- George Santayana
> 
> 73,
> Mike K1MK
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