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Old 15th Jun 2017, 9:03 pm   #27
m0cemdave
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Default Re: WW2 Amateur activity

Amateur transmitters were completely banned in WW2 and, as has been mentioned, those licensees who were not called up (ie too young, medically unfit, or in reserved occupations) were recruited into the RSS.

Towards the end of the war there was a secret operation in which a selected few amateurs were issued with new callsigns, see here:
www.g0mwt.org.uk/newsletter/2006/2006-09-nl.pdf
This seems to have been set up to provide a communications channel for possible overtures from Germans seeking an end to the war, although no such contact was actually received.

A group of amateurs who worked at the Hanslope intercept station used to have mock CW QSO's by tuning into each other's HRO local oscillators and keying the aerial connections (the HRO is infamous for LO radiation) and a set of QSL cards for these games is around somewhere...
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