[Boatanchors] Do You Have a Rag Chewers Certificate?

Wed Sep 13 13:41:27 EDT 2023

Don’t have the coveted RCC 😉 but I surely remember my first QSO back in ’61. Was with a ham not 6 miles away, with my brother standing behind me, helping me copy what the ham said. Took about 30 mins for the rudimentary exchange!

Howie WB2AWQ

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From: K2GKK D C_Mac_ Macdonald<mailto:k2gkk at hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Do You Have a Rag Chewers Certificate?

I also got an RCC Certificate whilst a Novice back in 1954.
At 5 WPM, it is not hard to do!

73 de Mac, K2GKK/5
Licensed 30 Nov 1953
Oklahoma City, OK
USAF (Retired) 61-81
FAA (Retired) 94-10
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Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Do You Have a Rag Chewers Certificate?

Recently I was hunting for my RCC from an October 1967 QSO so I could hang it on the wall by my newly acquired Novice station.  Over the past 56 some years I would come across it every so often, but not this time.  It was last spotted in a filing cabinet some 10 years ago but I couldn't find it this time.

I was able to get a scanned copy of an RCC, and then I used WORD to put my WN9WFA callsign on.  Going a tad further, I downloaded a typewriter font that closely matched the original choppy uneven font

Printed it out on my HP Ink Jet printer, the one that goes through cartridges faster than it should, and then to add the final touch -  I folded the certificate into threes, just like it was the original.  It turned out great!  It's thumbtacked to the wall now, and give me good memories when I look at it.

I have a Drake 2-NT, 2-B, 2-BQ and a recently acquired Hallicrafters HA-5, in my BA operating bench.  It is a wonderful walk down memory lane, and it's even cooler now having the RCC hanging on the wall.

Yeah, as pointed out earlier, at our 5 words per minute code speed, if we added our age and the weather to the usual report, that easily took the QSO length over 30 minutes.. hi hi   It was grand, wasn't it??
73, Scott WA9WFA

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