ET2US/ET2 1961 Ethiopia
Operator: Dick Cormier K1KOM
The Ethiopian Parliament
cancelled all American held ET2 licenses, effective 21 JUL '61,
with the exception of ET2US.
This did not help the fact that Dick Cormier, K1KOM, had applied
for his personal ET2 license upon his arrival in Asmara in JUL
'59!
K1KOM eventually received his personal license, ET3RC, after
waiting 28 months, and then he got to use it for 17
days, OCT 4 - OCT 21 '62, before leaving for Tehran and his
quickly issued EP2RC!
ET3RC QSL cards could be a scarce item!
It is a possibility that Dick created the ET2US/ET2 callsign to
get around the slow arrival of his personal callsign.
After using the ET2US callsign from the club station location for
over a year, he was then able to operate from his home QTH
with the ET2US/ET2 call .
He used ET2US/ET2 NOV 27 '60 - OCT 4 '62.
ET3USA was first noted in DX spots APR '63.
K1KOM went SK JUN 7, 2019.
QSL, Info courtesy of W4WJ
SK info courtesy of W5KNE