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August 23rd 04, 09:51 PM

In article , PAMNO
(N2EY) writes:

it used to be 2 *days* (48 hours)! If you were going to operate away from home
more than 48 hours, it was postcard time. And you sent the cards to the
district office for your portable/mobile location.

Before 1912 there was NO NEED to "send postcards" or even
follow federal radio rules!

[go ALL the way back with your wayback machine, why not?'

Yet as silly as the rule seems now, hams did it, because it was the rule.

Before 1912 there were Hams and they had no real rules.

Sunnuvagun!

Then there was Conelrad...

You talkin 'bout Paul Conelrad, the SK ham actor?

What was his call?

LHA