[CQ-Contest] Techniques of Ye Olden Days

Joe nss at mwt.net
Mon Aug 31 14:40:47 PDT 2009


Mine were the 11 by 17 inch paper size!
and sometimes we needed to make two!
We started sliding them some too,  like making the 6 land bigger and the 
7 land smaller  etc.

Joe WB9SBD
Warren C. Stankiewicz wrote:

>Ah, dupe sheets.
>
>The master of dupe sheets has to be Fred Laun, K3ZO. 
>
>His dupe sheets were HUGE. Easily the size of a table top. I don't know
>where he got the idea to do that (Fred?), but they were truly amazing.
>
>What makes it even more interesting is that in terms of logging accuracy,
>Fred was always one of the top ten most accurate loggers I ever knew. I know
>part of that was call sign recognition (which is incredibly important), but
>I have to believe that in the pre-computer days, these massive masterpieces
>had to have played an important part.
>
>73,
>
>Warren, NF1J
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