[Milsurplus] Re: 40's era TXs on AWA 'test

[Todd Bigelow - PS]

Marty R's GI-stuff haunt wrote:

> Tonite fm 6P est to tomorrow 6P will run the AWA Old Time CW contest.
> Same interval Sat & Sun
>
> Only member-to-member contacts count - snobs
>
> All CW @ 3550-3580 & 7030-7050 (mostly).  Old-time rigs are those < 1947
> which is a change... had been < 1942.  So you'll hear a large number of
> ww2 HF.  Command sets, TCS, WS19s, etc.

You'd think on one hand that they would want to encourage the CW activity on
the bands, but on the other hand it makes sense that you'd want to keep it
to OT rigs and not a bunch of computer-generated crap put together between
the PC and the ricebox.

Sounds like another interesting event to listen in on. They had a contest
back in December with...pre-1930 gear or something like that? Sure was fun
hearing those chirpy signals!

Still got a ways to go on the ARC-5, ART-13 and BC-191 stations, though....

Todd/'Boomer'  KA1KAQ