[Boatanchors] Callbook question

[K3PID]

Does anyone have the older callbooks available on-line? Say late 50s and
early 60s?


K3PID
Ron H.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "K0DAN" <k0dan at comcast.net>
To: "Philip, KO6BB" <Beaconeer at SBCGlobal.net>; <w8au at sssnet.com>
Cc: "Boatanchors" <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 2:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Callbook question


> Hard to imagine...but everything was manual...looking up domestic and
> foreign hams (two separate Callbooks you had to buy), writing QSL cards,
> filing them, keeping track of who your worked, what you needed, etc.
Hardly
> much time to operate! In addition, it was typical that MANY of the
addresses
> in Callbooks were out of date even at the time of publication. What was
> nice, in those days, was if you worked, say, a W3, you could be pretty
sure
> he was physically located in 3-land !
>
> 73
>
> Dan
> K0DAN
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Philip, KO6BB" <Beaconeer at SBCGlobal.net>
> To: <w8au at sssnet.com>
> Cc: "Boatanchors" <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 11:00 AM
> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Callbook question
>
>
> > In the days before computers they must have been a real pain to update
;-)
> > Phil, KO6BB
> >
> >> Each quarterly issue was a complete new book...all listings.
> >>
> >> Perry   w8au
> >
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