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| | ARRLWeb: In Brief - Jan 18, 2000 |
 | | Hellschreiber Activity Day set: January 29, 2000, 0000-2400 UTC, has been set as the date for the first Hellschreiber Activity Day. |
 | | The event is not a formal contest but a way to promote Hellschreiber as a serious DX mode and to celebrate the 98th birthday of Rudolf Hell, who invented Hellschreiber. |
 | | Participants exchange "honest reports, locator and name." To keep track, QSOs count one point (work stations once per band), with an extra point for Duplo-Hell or PSK-Hell QSOs, for working from or to a mechanical Hell machine, or for working a portable station (ie, operating from "emergency" power). |
| www.arrl.org /news/stories/2000/01/18/1/?nc=1 (2302 words) |
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