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Old 5th Jul 2017, 8:38 am   #37
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Default Re: WW2 Amateur activity

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Originally Posted by G4YVM David View Post
Ive just re-read an article in an ols MM which states that some amateurs (maybe a handful) of G7 and G9 2 letter calls. The Germans also had a few amateurs allowed to operate and so did the Americans. It didnt take long before the Americans banned there their amateurs from making contact contact with any of the contries involved with the war though.
The German stations were there to work as propaganda stations (i.e. if the nice German amateurs can still chat then they can't be all bad). Mind you, that was pretty much our rationale too.
I've often wondered where G9BF spent the war, he was such a renegade that SOE would have welcomed him!

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