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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana><STRONG>A QSL é a cortesia final do QSO, mesmo que 25
anos depois!!!</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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<H1>Delayed QSL Card</H1>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma><STRONG>Mike G4KFK</STRONG> has just received a QSL card
for a contact he had over 25 years ago. Is this a record ?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>The RTTY contact with SM2ELN took place on March 14, 1985
on the 14 MHz band.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>Mike recalls his memories of that time:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>I was running a BBC Micro with G3WHO software which I'd
transferred to sideways EPROM (who remembers those...?) with a homebrew terminal
unit to G3LIV's design.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>The beauty of the sideways EPROM was that you could invoke
software directly from the operating system with (in this case) *RTTY (CR) which
loaded instantly without waiting for the 5-1/4" floppy to spin up.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>The radio was a Yaesu FT-757GX, and I have no idea what
kind of antenna I was using in March 1985, other than it was probably a wire of
some kind.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>My interest in RTTY was sparked by near-neighbour Mike
G3JKN, who had the de rigeur setup of that era, a Creed 7B with an ST5 terminal
unit. There's no way I could've lifted a Creed into my shack, which was in the
loft of my parents' house in Denham, so I had to do RTTY with one of those
new-fangled computers.</FONT></P>
<P><STRONG><EM><FONT face=Tahoma>Can anyone beat 25 years
?</FONT></EM></STRONG></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>