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Re: [CQ-Contest] Check of 00, a disadvantage?

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Check of 00, a disadvantage?
From: <ku8e@bellsouth.net>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 14:48:29 -0500
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I remember working W1MX (I think) as my first contact and he gives me a check 
of  "08".

08 ??  That can't be right it's not 2008 yet...   So I ask for a repeat 
thinking he sent 08 by mistake.  I copy it again and 08 is what the guy sent.  
I ask one more time for a repeat. OK I will just log it as I heard it.  It then 
dawns on me a few minutes after I logged him the year he was licensed was 1908 
not 2008. My apologies for being a LID to whoever was operating at W1MX. Guess 
I was having a brain fart or something !!!

We will see more of this as the years go on with the checks that some of the 
old time college
clubs use... was that 2010 or 1910 ???

I can't stand my check - 76 - I must get hundreds of requests for repeats every 
year in SS - both CW and SSB !!!

Jeff / KU8E

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