ARRL DX Contest, SSB
Call: G6XX
Operator(s): G4FAL
Station: G4FAL
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: IO93EJ
Operating Time (hrs): 18h03
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160:
80: 130 30
40: 206 36
20: 698 60
15: 60 17
10:
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Total: 1094 143 Total Score = 464,178
Club: RSGB Contest Club
Comments:
The callsign 6XX was held by the Radio Society of Great Britain in the 1920s and
was used in transatlantic tests with a special permit to use an input power of
1kW.
The licence holder on behalf of RSGB was Philip Coursey who was a prominent
member of the amateur radio fraternity, he held the pre-WWI call sign GYX, later
operating as 2JK and G5AT. An early member of The Wireless Society of London and
its successor organisation, the Radio Society of Great Britain, he joined the
Committee in 1920 and became Honorary Secretary in 1924. He was a driving force
behind the "Transatlantic tests" that saw the first communication
between radio amateurs in the United Kingdom and the United States during the
years 1921 - 1926.
From 22 December 1923 to 10 January 1924 the RSGB station 6XX was established at
Shepherd’s Bush in London, at the premises of the Dubilier Condenser Company.
This was before the prefix “G” was added to callsigns in England, so G-6XX
was used to designate British nationality. The signals from the station were
reported by about 40 US and Canadian Radio Amateurs and also aboard the ship
Bowdoin in the Arctic.
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