[UK-CONTEST] A numbers

[Roger G3SXW]

Dear UK-Contest,
Can I please join this nostalgia-fest?

I was issued A-13 in December 1872, then licensed as 4AA in 1884. I used to 
borrow some facial hair from Tiddles and my cut-throat razor scratched some 
weird stones that I found in the garden. My two watts DC input and 
underground 14 feet long wire regularly put me in touch with friends in 
Australia on 80 metres, while eating my pastie lunch. I was the first-ever 
DXpeditioner in 1907, carrying nine hundredweight of equipment on my back 
across to the Isle of Wight.

Ah, them were the days, young feller-me-lad,
73 de Roger/G3SXW.





----- Original Message ----- 
From: <g4fka at aol.com>
To: <gm4fam at tiscali.co.uk>; <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 8:06 PM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] A numbers


> I'm afraid I'm not up with you guys in the "maturity" stakes but I 
> couldn't
> help but note Steve's reference to David Gibson. His "Illustrated Teach
> Yourself  Radio" was the first radio book I bought (actually a school 
> prize so the
> school  paid!) when the "broadcast SWL" version of G8HGP/G4FKA first 
> emerged
> (no A or G  numbers unfortunately) circa 1970.
>
> Geoff
>
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>
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