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Delayed QSL CardMike G4KFK has just received a QSL card for a contact he had over 25 years ago. Is this a record ? The RTTY contact with SM3ELN took place on March 14, 1985 on the 14 MHz band. Mike recalls his memories of that time: 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. 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. 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. 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. The QSL can be seen at
Can anyone beat 25 years ?
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