Why not? Having to repeat the phonetics over and over would drive lots of us
nuts quickly. But be sure to say them in French (or some other non-NA language)
so we get the full treatment.
Or better - use a Cajun name. Since Cajun is a non-written language, there
would be no spelling, and nothing to write into the log… <grin>
- Jack B, W6FB
- who amazingly is not Cajun - but almost all my relatives are!
> On Jan 15, 2015, at 9:04 PM, w5gn@mxg.com wrote:
>
> After last week's experiment, I was planning to honor another Carl,
> my college dorm mate while at Notre Dame, but by using his last name,
> Yastrzemski, except that it's 11 characters.
>
> 73
>
> Barry, W5GN
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jeff
> Clarke
> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 7:34 PM
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] NAQP Names
>
> I am a graduate of the Ohio State University who just won the college nation
> championship in football this past weekend. The owner of the station I am
> operating at as a M2X was also born in Ohio. We are probably going to use
> some unusual name in NAQP SSB related to Ohio State to celebrate. I also
> suggested this to MRRC members in OH to do this as well but not sure if they
> will follow my lead.
>
> You have been forewarned. Don't trust your database in your logging program
> that pre-fills information to be correct.
>
> I sure wish I would have thought of doing this last weekend on CW, especially
> after I worked Ducky in Oregon!
>
> Go Bucks !
>
> Jeff, KU8E and W8LT alumni
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