Ancestors

Toot

Written by DF5GO on 2025-01-21 at 21:18

I started ham radio with a class C (VHF & up) licence and my first call sign was DC8TD. It seems that it was only issued once before in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

After pasing the morse code test I was issued my current DF5GO. That call sign was also issued only once before. Surprisingly the previous holder lived in the town where I grew up.

Source: old call books available at https://archive.org/details/dlarc

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Descendants

Written by DF5GO on 2025-01-21 at 21:32

This weeks #hamchallenge was a nice research detour. It gave me both some new insights in call sign history and also revived memories into the times when I was a fresh radio amateur.

To retain my my research results I wrote them down combined with some memories down into a longer text. At the moment just for me, but maybe I'll publish that in future as blog article or something like that.

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Written by 🌈 mischk 🇮🇱 on 2025-01-22 at 06:47

@df5go @hamchallenge thank you for the link to the vintage call books. I was able to find my call in a book from 1995. HC04

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