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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ian White, G3SEK <G3SEK@ifwtech.com>
>To: amps@contesting.com <amps@contesting.com>
To: <amps@contesting.com>
>Date: 14 March 2002 12:02
>Subject: Re: [Amps] 10 Meters
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>>>Not that I would recommend going back to the 1932 alphabet, where it was
>>>Xanthippe for X!
>>>
>>"X-ray" is a particularly bad choice, because some languages pronounce
>>it "ex" and others "ix" - which is probably why the French seem to
>>prefer "Xylophone" (pron. "zeel-o-fon", but quite unmistakable after
>>you've heard it once).
>
>Not to mention the dreaded 'ygrec'.........
>
>Apologies to any French speakers
? a.k.a. "Francophones"
> on the list, but in adjudicating UK VHF
>contests, the percentage error rate was much higher for contacts with French
>stations than for any other countries in western europe.
>
? Which is the one reason I liked CW. Otherwise "CW is for slow
talkers and slow thinkers". (WA6MFJ)
cheers, Steve
- R. L. Measures, a.k.a. Rich..., 805.386.3734,AG6K,
www.vcnet.com/measures.
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