[Elecraft] "Q" signal trivia

[WILLIS COOKE]

It seems that 73's predates any of us by quite a bit, but complaining about it just dates back to the start of Internet reflectors.

Willis 'Cookie' Cooke 
K5EWJ & Trustee N5BPS, USS Cavalla, USS Stewart

--- On Mon, 7/18/11, Wayne Conrad <wconrad at yagni.com> wrote:


From: Wayne Conrad <wconrad at yagni.com>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] "Q" signal trivia
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Date: Monday, July 18, 2011, 1:19 PM


"73's" appears to go back farther than that:

     http://www.mikezulu.com/73s.htm

See esp. the QSL cards at the bottom, signed by the old man himself.

73s, Wayne Conrad  KF7QGA