[Hallicrafters] Old calls

[Bob Macklin]

There is no advertisement for the Callbook in the 1944 ARRL Handbook.

Bob Macklin
K5MYJ
Seattle, Wa.
"Real Radios Glow In The Dark"
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Everette" <radiocompass at yahoo.com>
To: "Richard Knoppow" <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
Cc: <Hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2011 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] Old calls


> Hi Richard,
>
> It was published, in the 50s and 60s at least, by Radio Amateur Callbook 
> Magazine.  Seems like there may have been another name for the publisher 
> earlier on, but I would have to dig it out.  I have a few 1930s QSTs, and 
> some from the 40s.
>
> Unless it would be found in a university library, most libraries would 
> have long since weeded out anything that old.  I think it's tragic that a 
> lot of history, and literature, has been lost because some librarian 
> thought it was no longer relevant.
>
> Even the NC State University library -- which has a lot of ham-related 
> stuff including bound volumes of CQ (from 1946) and QST (from 1921), plus 
> hard bound ARRL Handbooks back into the 20s -- has started moving a lot of 
> that material from the stacks into "special collections" which are really 
> long term storage and not accessible except by an act of Congress. 
> Unfortunately, NCSU never had any Callbooks.
>
> I have a friend in QCWA who knows someone in Pennsylvania that has a large 
> collection of Callbooks... will see if I can get some information that 
> way.
>
> Thanks and 73
>
> Mike
> W4DSE
>
>
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