[Elecraft] Prose Walker

[John Ragle]

It was W4PW or something very similar...I worked him one morning from 
(then West) Germany as DJ0NH.

John Ragle -- W1ZI

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On 4/11/2012 11:31 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
> Ha, ha! Yes, it would have been "Whisky Six Quebec Alpha Sierra".
>
> It was in the early 70's that I finally got my Extra Class license and, when
> the 2X1 calls were announced, I was among the first in line for one.
>
> Bob Wolbert picked up on that too. So assuming many others did, I'll put
> this on the reflector
>
> How time flies!!
>
> Ron AC7AC
>
> ----------------------------''
> On 4/11/2012 7:42 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
>
>> One time late one evening in the 1960's I was tuning around the
>> 20 meter band with my National HRO5 receiver
>                      [...]
>
>> When the opportunity appeared I transmitted "Break, Alpha Charley Six
>> Yankee".
>    Uh, Ron, the A-series calls and the 2X1 calls weren't put into
>    service until the mid-1970s.  I was at the Pacificon hamfest in
>    Santa Cruz when A. Prose Walker, the then-Division Chief (forgot
>    his call sign) announced the new formats.
>
> --  73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
>      Elecraft K2/100   s/n 5402
>
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