[UK-CONTEST] A numbers

[Chris G3SJJ]

Eeh lad, you know nowt.

In my day, we could get a bag a chips, a Hovis, 10 Woodbines and still
have change from a tanner.

Chris G3SJJ,  err I think. SWL from age 13 to 18, licenced  in Sept 1963.



Roger G3SXW wrote:
> 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.
>
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> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 8:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] A numbers
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>> 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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