G3AQC complete call Q5 in USA]

[Andre' Kesteloot]

G0MRF@aol.com wrote:

> I e-mailed Dexter and told him that a complete callsign was probably needed.
> The very next day he found one!
>
> I think to that point he had just identified signals by seeing odd characters
> or by identifying dashes with the correct on/off sequence on the correct
> frequency.
>
> So to the best of my knowledge Laurie's was the first full callsign received,
> whereas Jim's signal was positively identified by other means.
>
> That's the same situation that occured between Canada and the UK. Where Jack,
> VE1ZZ, was positively identified on 10/sept by a prearranged series of dashes
> (Marconi style). At that time Jack could not transmit his call in QRSS so the
> 'formal' reception had to wait until a beacon keyer was sent over from the UK
> and Jack's callsign was received by Peter G3LDO several weeks later.
>
> Look's like the various sections of the AMRAD / RSGB / DARC challenge are
> slowly being achieved.  I wonder if this will spur us onto monitoring the
> AMRAD beacons.
> Be prepared for requests to slow down the keying Andre' (Hi)
>
> Thanks to all three organisations for the inspiration to do all this.
>
> 73
>
> David  G0MRF