[RTTY] Question for old timers

WA2PNI wa2pni at verizon.net
Sat Aug 26 22:39:29 EDT 2017


I find that interesting I just worked a station that gave me 1935. It's
possible, QRZ says born 1918 My hats off to him at that age and still
contesting. 
 That's if I  received everything correctly. Anybody else work W0KK ?
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From: RTTY [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Peter Laws
Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2017 10:14 PM
To: Bill Turner <dezrat at outlook.com>
Cc: RTTY Reflector <rtty at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Question for old timers

On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 10:07 PM, Bill Turner <dezrat at outlook.com> wrote:
> I know during World War II hams were not allowed to transmit, but were 
> licenses issued during that time?  In the current SCC contest, someone 
> sent me 1944 as their year first licensed. I challenged him on it and 
> he never came back. Anyone know?
>

Good question.

It always bugged me that the MIT club station would use "09" as the check in
the ARRL November Sweepstakes.  Like the contest you mention, it's supposed
to be the "last two digits of the first year the station was licensed" ...
since no licenses were issued until 1912 ...

So your question is a good one.  The QST archive is pretty hard to search
but surely it's in there.

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Peter Laws | N5UWY | plaws plaws net | Travel by Train!
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