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    The WX3MAS Story

    Dec 01, 2019 2 minutes
    BY BARBARA L. WIEMANN, * W3ATC

    Today, amateur radio special-event callsigns are commonplace and amateurs take them for granted. But that was not always the case. W3ATC shares the story of the first one … issued 50 years ago this month!

    ecember 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the first amateur radio special-event callsign ever issued by the FCC. The Delaware-Lehigh Amateur Radio Club (DLARC) obtained the

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