I believe that famous CQ speech originated with a W8 in Ohio in the late 50's. Don't remember his call, but it was a two letter suffix. It went something like this: "CQ....CQ...CQ ......No Kids, No Lids, No K calls, No Space Cadets,......... this is W8xx". I remember how disappointed I was to hear it because I was a kid with a "K call" at the time. I don't remember the rest of it, but remember hearing it many times around 1959-60 time frame on 40M AM.. While we are walking down memory lane, anybody remember W3EBM ....."Three Empty Beer Mugs"? I think he was in Scranton, PA. I was in awe of his booming signal on 40M AM from a Johnson Desk KW back in 1959. Wow! he would peg the S-meter and rattle the speaker Hi, Hi. 73, Jack, W9GT
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/w9gt/index.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Edmonson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 9:17 PM Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Subbands and FCC > > > NO kids NO lids (grin!) > > "No lids, no kids, no space cadets, no school bus drivers." ;-) > > Who has/knows the full text of that? It was someone's CQ, > and the first time I heard about it, was from Floyd/WA5TWF > ex-President/S.P.A.M.*, now a silent key since 1987. > > > 73 = Best Regards, > -=Jeff/W5OMR=- > > * = "S.PA.M. = Society for the Preservation of Amplitude Modulation" > > > _______________________________________________ > AMRadio mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio
