[UK-CONTEST] G3GPO

[Giles Herbert]

I am aware that the BBC Club (Ariel Radio Group) found that the BBC sufix was not originally issued in sequence and so the GPO one may have been treated as sensitive and not issued too.
 

Giles Herbert
G0NXA
Often on 3.716 MHz



 
> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:29:43 +0000
> From: clive at gw3njw.net
> CC: uk-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] G3GPO
> 
> Steve
> 
> It was not listed in the 1959 call book.
> 
> I am given to wonder if it indeed was ever issued, as I suspect they 
> were the issuing authoity back then.
> 
> In 1959 there were two RAEs, one held by C&G ( SK?) and t'other by said 
> GPO ( defintely SK), which I in fact took in October 1958, although it 
> took me until March '59 to get the CW in the same office. Funny isn't 
> it, when you are 16 you can do anything, well except vote or buy a pint 
> of beer. Shhhh, don't tell anybody but I did buy a pint before I was 18, 
> although I swear I didn't look more than 16! These days most 15 year 
> olds look 18; we should never have come out of the trees imo, cave 
> dwelling ain't what it's cracked up to be. I don't know what the world's 
> coming to honestly I don't :-(
> 
> 73
> 
> 
> Clive
> GW3NJW
> 
> On 28/04/2011 18:16, STEPHEN LAWRENCE wrote:
> > Hello All.
> >
> > I wonder if someone has an old call book in the corner of the shack showing the
> > details for G3GPO from days of old'e please ?
> >
> > 73
> >
> > Steve
> > G4EOF
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