[UK-CONTEST] AFS SSB - Not much hope

[G4FNL]

Nick

That's a long time ago. I think that you and I (plus quite a few others on
that list) are more than eligible for RAOTA membership!

BTW, if I worked you with SSB in 1978, it would have been from a mate's QTH.
All I had from home in those days was a Codar AT5 (CW only and a bit of AM)
and an ancient B40 receiver. I also had a Katsumi electronic keyer which,
when it got a bit warm in the summer months, used to go haywire with speed
and dot/dash ratio. So, I used to have keep my keyer in the fridge overnight
because of this. I bet no one else has a stranger story.......?

73  Graham G4FNL


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Subject: [UK-CONTEST] AFS SSB - Not much hope


Nigel, G3TXF, has discussed the "typing up" of paper logs recently in the
CDXC journal.

Thankfully I did this some time ago and it wasn't a massive task because in
my teenage

years, I didn't have a lot of contacts and didn't know much about contests
or other

activities that rack up the numbers.



Anyway, I have just fewer than 1,500 QSOs logged before 1979.



I entered AFS SSB on Saturday for the first time, with marginally over 200
Qs; then I

amused myself by comparing the calls with those that are in my log for
before 1979.



Incidentally, 160m would have been using a Codar AT5 until I got a KW Vespa
(not a scooter).



The full list of matching calls with first QSO is:



Call                   First QSO         Freq      Mode

G4BXT              11/05/1976        1.8        A3E (QSO no#20)

G3ZBU              11/07/1976        1.8        A3E

G4FAM             18/08/1976        144       F3E (GM4FAM on Sat)

G4CWH            22/08/1976        1.8        A3E

G4ERW            12/12/1976        1.8        J3E

G3VER             12/12/1976        1.8        J3E (only previous QSO)

G8JXV              11/05/1977        144       F3E (only previous QSO)

G3MXH             12/12/1977        144       F3E

G3SSO             19/02/1978        3.5        J3E (only previous QSO)

G4FNL              23/03/1978        3.5        J3E

G3SWC            30/06/1978        144       F3E



Nice that three of these were only my second contact in more than 30 years.



I mentioned this to my wife (foolishly?) whose instant reply was "not much
hope of you

getting fed up with it then".



73 Nick G4FAL

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